commerce in Europe, as well as a

“Today it was commerce that Europe valued and it was the businessmen who, having exploited what the scientists and thechnologits had done for the…

— Stephen Fry

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far…

— Adam Smith

Some have suggested that ideally there must be some international body that would treat areas like the Arctic as a global commerce, a bit…

— Kofi Annan

The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.

— Harry Browne

“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting…

— Henry David Thoreau

The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on the verge…

— Eugene Kennedy

My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money,…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.

— Thomas Paine

Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities;…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Honor commerce as the engine of change.

— William McDonough

If I were in this business only for the business, I wouldn't be in this business.

— Samuel Goldwyn

“The effects of the division of labour, in the general business of society, will be more easily understood by considering in what manner it…

— Adam Smith

This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in…

— Jacqueline Bisset

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.

— Paul Samuelson