Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
“There is no commerce without community. And there is no community without commerce” — Michele Jennae Copy Share Image
Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I don't mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised. — John Constable Copy Share Image
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade,… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
Nothing is more favorable to the rise of politeness and learning, than a number of neighboring and independent states, connected together by… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A writer can spend a decade working obsessively on a novel, but in the commerce of publishing, many of the most important… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
The dustbin of history is littered with remains of those countries that relied on diplomacy to secure their freedom. We must never… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We're risking the future of the net. People are already losing their trust. Once you get burned once - somebody steals your… — Mikko Hypponen Copy Share Image
Auctions are bizarre combinations of slave market, trading floor, theatre and burlesque... a lot of people are going to be making a… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art… — Abe Ajay Copy Share Image
The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on… — Eugene Kennedy Copy Share Image
The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Roads, better harnesses for horses, time-keeping devices, financial instruments like a currency that was recognized everywhere in the kingdom, enforceable contracts -… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Manufacturing establishments not only occasion a positive augmentation of the produce and revenue of the society . . . they contribute essentially… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We might sometimes reflect and recall that the purpose of all our science, technology, industry, manufacturing, commerce, and finance is celebration, planetary… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in commerce, and in… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“In no time we roll into Sedona proper and find a Cirlce K. The place is full of men with silver ponytails… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. ... Men must… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Jack Bogle's passionate cry of Enough! contains a thought-provoking litany of life lessons regarding our individual roles in commerce and society. Employing… — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image