Commerce Quotes · Page 12

An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.

— Ambrose Bierce

Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a…

— Mark Twain

They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and…

— Robert Toombs

COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the…

— Ambrose Bierce

I was very happy to be living in New York at that time, more than in the present time. Now it's all…

— Claes Oldenburg

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in…

— J. Edgar Hoover

Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

— Voltaire

I had studied quite hard in the past and I had always been quite good at business and commerce.

— Edouard Mendy

Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has…

— Sir Fulke Greville

Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is…

— V. S. Pritchett

The Indian who fells the tree that he may gather the fruit, and the Arab who plunders the caravans of commerce are…

— Edward Gibbon

What is technically called the 'fungibility' of money, is its chief value as an article of commerce; and this fact could not…

— Edward Jenks

When I started in e-commerce, there was not a lot of clutter because there were not a lot of companies. Nowadays, you…

— Julie Wainwright

If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and…

— Robert Walpole

I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that…

— Ian MacKaye

...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those…

— Charles Fourier

With the strong global appeal of the Playboy brand and the differentiated content offered, we have built a men's destination site with…

— Christie Hefner

My single greatest challenge is to remain centered and loving in an overwhelmingly nonvegan world. In today's world, cruelty and exploitation of…

— Michael Klaper

Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government. The White House, the Congress…

— Bill Moyers

The language of commerce has been engineered to describe the overt purpose of a thing, but cannot encompass fringe benefits or peripheral…

— Rebecca Solnit

Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with…

— Douglas MacArthur

The laws expressing the relations between energy and matter are, however, not solely of importance in pure science. They necessarily come first…

— Frederick Soddy

Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train…

— Alexander Hamilton

Will now allow Reno to claim she is doing a vigorous investigation of campaign financing, when in reality Judicial Watch's public depositions…

— Larry Klayman

[Y]ou wonder why anyone would make the mistake of calling it the Commerce Clause instead of the 'Hey, you -can-do-whatever-you-feel-like Clause?

— Alex Kozinski

A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.

— John Marshall

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.

— James A. Garfield

When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine he is that polite all the time.

— E. W. Howe

I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.

— Jack Kemp

The Commerce Clause has already been inflated so much that we basically can't do anything without the government's permission.

— Alex Epstein

The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this…

— Alex Winter

Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices.

— Alexander Hamilton

Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.

— Michael Oxley

And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.

— Halle Berry

I fell in love with commerce and the opportunities that come with compelling visual storytelling.

— Ruzwana Bashir

Our small airports and rail stations are hubs of commerce that connect rural New Mexico with markets across the United States and…

— Ben Ray Lujan

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

— Henry David Thoreau

Our roads and bridges form the essence of interstate commerce in this country and have for some time.

— Scott Pruitt

I'm committed to creating an ideal environment for commerce and letting the world know that Alabama is open for business.

— Kay Ivey