Quotes About Commerce

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People can't learn anything from buying but from selling.

In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)

Business is the salt of life.

We have deficits with everybody. Who do we have a positive with?

It used to be that death and taxes alone were inevitable. Now there's shipping and handling.

Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

Chi per mestiere compra o vende si riconosce facilmente: ha l'occhio vigile e il volto teso, teme la frode o la medita, e sta in guardia come un gatto all'imbrunire.

Ora, è chiaro altresì che, per le dure leggi del commercio, quanto è di vantaggio a chi vende è svantaggio a chi compra, e viceversa

Chi per mestiere compra o vende si riconosce facilmente: ha l'occhio vigile e il volto teso, teme la frode o la medita, e sta in guardia come un gatto all'imbrunire. È un mestiere che tende a distruggere l'anima immortale; ci sono stati filosofi cortigiani, filosofi pulitori di lenti, perfino filosofi ingegneri e strateghi, ma nessun filosofo, che io sappia, era grossista o bottegaio.

which was named after the Roman god Mercury.

Newspaper columnist Dave Barry once wrote that the motto of the wedding industry is, 'Money can't buy you happiness, so you might as well give your money to us.

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I do not think anything should be given for free. Everything has a price attached to it.

Austria is a very export-oriented country.

Trade is a source of strength and an engine of growth for America.

Private industry's job is to make money. Private industry's job is to create a huge economic engine.

I made records for people who would buy them. No color, no ethnic, no political - I don't want that, never did.

That's the positive aspect of trade I suppose. The world gets stirred up together. That's about as much as I have to say for it.

Waarom zou iemand die handel drijft in boeken niet lijken op degene die zich met wijn bezighoudt? Ook voor wijn was er iets subliems nodig geweest dat de handel vooraf was gegaan en had geschapen: de wijnstok en de zon.

The distinction between Trade and Warfare is seen only by those who have no experience of either.? -Heironymo Sondar, House Sondar

The distinction between trade and warfare is seen only by those who have no experience of either.

the factory-owners and traders, grew stronger as a result of the new trade frontiers in America, Africa and the Far East.

Industrialization finally drove the West out of a mercantile economy and into a capitalist one. Before industrialization, the most important factor in determining the wealth of a country was its volume of trade, or exports minus imports. After industrialization, the value of what a country could produce became more important.