Quotes About Commerce

The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles.

And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity that's far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before.

Buying is an activity understood by economists. Shopping is a phenomenon of interest to anthropologists and sociologists.

In 1961, before the container was in international use, ocean freight costs alone accounted for 12 percent of the value of U.S. exports and 10 percent of the value of U.S. imports.

All the products of one period have something in common; the artists who illustrate the poetry of their generation are the same artists who are employed by the big financial houses. And nothing reminds me so much of the monthly parts of Notre-Dame de Paris, and of various books by Gérard de Nerval, that used to hang outside the grocer's door at Combray, than does, in its rectangular and flowery border, supported by recumbent river-gods, a 'personal share' in the Water Company.

Nothing dollarable is safe.

the world of commerce is restless; it's like a hungry child that keeps growing and never quite grows up

The reason for the greater number of crosstown streets than up- and downtown avenues was self-evident to planners of the early nineteenth century but might not be so obvious to us today—intra-Manhattan commerce flowed east and west. In the days before railroads, dirigibles, and airplanes, the preeminent form of long-distance transportation and hauling was by water, and the piers and wharves along the East River had to link up with those along the Hudson if commerce was to flourish.

America teaches its children that every passion can be transmuted into an occasion to buy.

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

Business is the salt of life

Just as Manda Lewis's impressions of the world had been informed by her reading-- leading her to expect balls, duels, and conveniently timed thunderstorms out of life-- so, too, had mine; but what I expected was intellectual commerce between equals.

Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to make whatever economic transactions they can mutually agree to.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

It is probable that England will look favorably upon the independence of the Philippines, for it will open their ports to her and afford greater freedom to her commerce.

Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country.

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant

The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.

Department store doors were flung wide open like vast jaws, ready to feed on the shopping plankton that drifted through them.

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

We want to build colonies on the Moon, Mars, the Moons of other planets, and even nearby asteroids. We want to make space tourism and commerce routine.

Because I believe that the future of the music lies in the Internet. It can be sold on the Internet.