Trade Quotes · Page 41

In my view, [the trade deficit] will create political turmoil at some point...Pretty soon, I think there will be a big adjustment.

— Warren Buffett

“Knowledge was scattered treasure, education organized it into art, commerce and science.”

— Amit Kalantri

The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Increased trade is crucial to a balanced plan for stimulating growth and job creation on both sides of the Atlantic.

— Max Baucus

If trade undermines life, narrows it or impoverishes it, then it can destroy the world. If it enhances life, then it can…

— Anita Roddick

Yes to trade, but trade that ensures that these other countries that trade with us aren't engaging in child labor.

— Barack Obama

“Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it.”

— Marcus Aurelius

i do not like to work and have no trade but i do like to eat, so this is basic, the basic…

— Charles Bukowski

You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was…

— Mary Lou Retton

Any time you read that your government is erecting tariff barriers, supporting threatened industries with subsidies, or interfering in any way with…

— John Pugsley

I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits; they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial…

— Henry David Thoreau

Commerce is unexpectedly confident and serene, alert, adventurous, and unwearied. It is very natural in its methods withal, far more so than…

— Henry David Thoreau

The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven…

— Shigeru Yoshida

I would not trade America's position in the world - our ledger, our debts and assets - for any country in the…

— Chuck Hagel

For Latin American countries seeking to play a bigger role in global trade, effectively implementing trade-facilitating reforms could be an important tool…

— Arancha Gonzalez

We must recognise that in an integrated world, trade cannot be divorced from other concerns. We need to promote free trade and…

— Lawrence Summers

Speaking of myself, I was made to realize long ago that the old trade union was utterly incompetent to deal successfully with…

— Eugene V. Debs

US opposition to Russia and China has entailed sanctions against Russia, and Russia in turn has made counter-sanctions against Europe. So Europe…

— Michael Hudson

Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. . . . Because I'm capping greenhouse gases,…

— Barack Obama

“Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use of them…

— John Graunt

“It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of…

— Cormac McCarthy

And down the dunes a thousand guns lie crouched,Unseen, beside the flood -Like tigers in some Orient jungle crouchedThat wait and watch…

— Henry Timrod

I have made revenue collection a frontline institution because it is the one which can emancipate us from begging. If we can…

— Yoweri Museveni

A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his…

— Thomas Carlyle

People intuitively know that trade is good for our country. We just have to get the right trade agreements.

— John Kasich

I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.

— Molly Haskell

I'm not going to go to a team that's losing. I think that would be disrespectful to me to trade me to…

— Gary Payton

“I'm in a hole because at some point I found a shovel and started digging. Maybe I should trade my shovels for…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

You guard your hopes and pocket your dreams, you'd trade it all to avoid an unpleasant scene.

— Billy Squier

There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

— Walt Whitman

Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.

— Garry Disher

“A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration.”

— Robert Higgs

I want a trade that is not trickle-down trade, but trade that recognizes we're in a global economy.

— Nancy Pelosi

As many Europeans and other people from other countries, I have been led into my present activity by a very specific American…

— Emilio Pucci

Before Trump, trade policy ceded our manufacturing strength to foreign nations.

— Eugene Scalia

I think there's no such thing as free trade. I think there has to be fair trade.

— Kevin de Leon

[Bill Clinton] approved NAFTA, which is the single worst trade deal ever approved in this country.

— Donald Trump

Donald Trump spoke to the experience of ordinary working people when he dubbed Nafta the 'worst trade deal ever made.'

— Barry Gardiner

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.

— Martin Niemoller