Quotes About Commerce

There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand - good heavens! - that's what I really call troublesome.

Money is not indefinitely divisible. Even with the assistance of money-substitutes for expressing fractional sums that for technical reasons cannot conveniently be expressed in the actual monetary material (a method that has been brought to perfection in the modern system of token coinage), it seems entirely impossible to provide commerce with every desired fraction of the monetary unit.

The function of money is to facilitate the business of the market by acting as a common medium of exchange.

The collapse of an inflation policy carried to its extreme -- as in the United States in 1781 and in France in 1796 -- does not destroy the monetary system, but only the credit money or fiat money of the State that has overestimated the effectiveness of its own policy. The collapse emancipates commerce from etatism and establishes metallic money again.

Ludwig von Mises

Well, there's always Nevada," Benny said. "You can buy anything from a hand laser to an atom bomb there.

To buy something you punched in the vendor's credit number and the amount of purchase; the sum was automatically shuffled from your account to his. The machine was the size of a slender wallet and coded to your thumbprint.

and the name of that Town is Vanity; and at the Town there is a Fair kept, called Vanity Fair: it is kept all the year long; it beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the Town where 'tis kept is lighter than Vanity; and also because all that is there sold, or that cometh thither, is Vanity. As is the saying of the wise, All that cometh is Vanity. Section

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Death came, Death went, but Commerce flowed Eternal.

I wouldn't call it a retail store. It's a place where culture and commerce intersect. It's more like the Silk Road-a sense of exploration mixed with the exchange of things and ideas.

Most of the manufacturers they tend to design things to sell they are more interested in the money side than anything else.

We do not need Departments of Commerce, Labor, and Education; we need a single Department of Skills that will promote an integrated approach to global competitiveness.

If we truly want to achieve lasting economic growth, we need our businesses to do more business - and we need them to do it in America.

Can trade help lift people out of poverty? It can, and it has.

London is the clearing-house of the world.

Mail in our country serves as an economic engine.

Marketing is not a nice word, but the world is about marketing now.

I worry a lot about people using games just for marketing, to get people to buy more stuff, which I think would be the worst possible use.

Africa needs access to markets.

Markets that don't work we're going to step away from.

The first communications revolution gave us the railroads, the car and the airplane; the second one has given us the computer, the internet and the iPhone. Of course, these transformations bring a whole new range of products in their wake. Do you watch Hulu? Read on a Kindle? Find your way with GPS? Shop on Amazon? Listen to Spotify? Get to the airport with Lyft or Uber? Book with Airbnb? Use Instagram? If so, you are a beneficiary of twenty-first-century technological capitalism.

4.  Call the customer to a direct action leading to a sale.