Quotes About Commerce

If it hurt me to have to give up a painting I figured it had to hurt them to write the check. That's how I came up with the price for my work.

It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!

I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more.

Things work once you have property, trade and contract in place.

Don't let form become more important than the substance of your heart and mind. Don't let commerce determine what you do exclusively.

The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.

People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society. Those failures - joined with the similar failures of others - can readily have a substantial effect on interstate commerce.

Congress has the power to legislate with regard to activity that, in the aggregate, has a substantial effect on interstate commerce.

Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.

Overall, the people from the more commercialized societies are much more willing to cooperate outside of narrow kinship circles. The core message is that commerce and advanced market societies tend to breed trust and reciprocal cooperation. It is no accident that such hypotheses were common among eighteenth-century Enlightenment thinkers, such as the Frenchman Montesquieu, and others who were observing the rise of commercial society on a massive scale for the very first time.

Tradesmen and traders

Wars of extermination, engaged in by people pursuing commerce and all industrial pursuits, are expensive even against the weakest people, and are demoralizing and wicked.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.

Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.

We're not responsible for the bustling and hustling that may go on here. Lots of people bustle, and some hustle. But that's their business, and a very old one.

It's show business. No show, no business.

Big business always serve - directly or indirectly - the masses.

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.

Nothing personal, it's just business