Quotes About Commerce

The knottiest problems in trade are: 1—The problem of location. 2—The problem of getting the crowds. 3—The problem of keeping the crowds. 4—The problem of minimizing fixed expenses. 5—The problem of creating a valuable good will.

Chocolate is both an industry and a sensation.

trading in money.

Southwark whores bawling out their prices like butchers selling dead flesh.

The world is run from Antwerp, from Florence, from places he has never imagined; from Lisbon, from where the ships with sails of silk drift west and are burned up in the sun. Not from castle walls, but from countinghouses, not by the call of the bugle but by the click of the abacus, not by the grate and click of the mechanism of the gun but by the scrape of the pen on the page of the promissory note that pays for the gun and the gunsmith and the powder and shot.

Now I know that Wal-Mart's policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America.

Las personas generosas son malos comerciantes. David tenía uno de esos caracteres pudorosos y afectivos que se espantan ante una discusión y que ceden en el momento en que el adversario les toca la fibra sensible.

Ne pas écouter est non seulement un manque de politesse, mais encore une marque de mépris. Rien ne rapporte plus dans le commerce du monde que l'aumône de l'attention. À bon entendeur salut !

No one ever expects poetry to sell.

In primitive society, man produced directly for the satisfaction of his own wants, but with the development of society came differentiation of function; exchange and barter arose, various trades sprang up, and with the necessity of commercial intercourse came the invention of money.

China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities and Chinese companies are moving beyond China to various parts of the world.

I promise you that there are a lot of people involved in various kinds of retail activities who think they have a crucial role in the economy, and they're right.

I think there will be an increasing convergence between content and commerce, that it will be about following consumers instead of making consumers come to you, and I am especially excited about the various platforms that will allow more and more access to customers.

The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.

Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships... Container ships carry a vast amount of stuff.

We're a trading nation. We need to have trade, we rely on it, a vast proportion of our jobs in our country rely on trade agreements.

The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas.

Most municipalities grow up around commerce; there's a harbor, or the train stops there. Venice, CA was founded for fun.

Selling cookies is usually a girl's first exposure to the world of business. She learns how to meet the public, talk about a product, sell the product, and is responsible for collecting money, giving change, and delivering the product. That's quite a business venture for a 7-year-old.

Vermont and Canada are not just neighbors, our communities are linked by family, friends, social and cultural connections, natural resources, commerce and more.

Our site should be like Paddington Station with a much better version of WH Smith's in it.

Mr. President, is there such incompatibility of interest between the two sections of this country that they can not profitably live together? Does the agriculture of the South injure the manufactures of the North? On the other hand, are they not their life-blood? And think you, if one portion of the Union, however great it might be in commerce and manufactures, was separated from all the agricultural districts, that it would long maintain its supremacy

Don't take it personally, it's only business.

Starbucks is, unsurprisingly, the only thing open in this storm, commerce's cockroach