Commerce Quotes · Page 8

The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.

— Theodore Dreiser

Every transaction in commerce is an independent transaction.

— David Ricardo

Commerce was the best job I could ever have.

— William M. Daley

Brands are the rock stars of commerce, and create many fans, both at home and abroad.

— Simon Anholt

The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.

— Anonymous

I'm in this whole flow of doing certain art pieces without commerce.

— Jada Pinkett Smith

I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.

— Thomas Jefferson

Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade…

— Leland Stanford

If a doctor assists you in your suicide, it is called manslaughter, while if a tobacco company does, it is called commerce.

— Neale Donald Walsch

Rubio is clearly an open-borders Republican. He is the Chamber of Commerce candidate, the 'more is better' candidate, and the amnesty candidate.

— Tom Tancredo

I love what I do. I love the music, and I'm honored to be presented with a star by the Hollywood Chamber…

— Elvis Duran

In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector…

— John Ralston Saul

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be…

— James Madison

I am a commercial artist because I paint to earn a living. We who earn money from what we produce are all…

— Jack White

If the Poe Lock were ever rendered unusable due to a terrorist attack or natural disaster, it would halt commerce on the…

— Bart Stupak

The progress of manufactures and commerce insensibly collects a large multitude within the walls of a city: but these citizens are no…

— Edward Gibbon

So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the…

— Will Durant

Social enables word of mouth at an unprecedented scale. Its most powerful effect, through reviews and recommendations, is to put product quality…

— Roelof Botha

“The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without…

— Frederick Lewis Donaldson

Microsoft has built a closed platform-within-a-platform into Windows 10 as the first apparent step towards locking down the consumer PC ecosystem and…

— Tim Sweeney

War is not the best engine for us to resort to; nature has given us one in our commerce, which if properly…

— Thomas Jefferson

You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There…

— Chris Cooper

Believe me, I love commerce as much as the rest of the readers of 'Businessweek.' But in art, you have to be…

— Lionel Richie

But if in the pursuit of the means we should unfortunately stumble again on unfunded paper money or any similar species of…

— George Washington

Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that…

— David Hume

Passive commerce . . . should thus . . . [compel us] to content ourselves with the first price of our commodities,…

— Alexander Hamilton

There's more private security in the United States than there are publicly funded forces, like police. What you don't want is a…

— Margaret Atwood

Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a…

— James Madison

Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really…

— Jacob Needleman

The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad…

— James Russell Lowell

Integrity is at the heart of commerce in the world in which we live. Honesty and integrity comprise the very underpinnings of…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Don't let form become more important than the substance of your heart and mind. Don't let commerce determine what you do exclusively.

— Avery Brooks

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

— Cornel West

There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art.

— Thomas Kinkade

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of…

— Thorstein Veblen

What interests us in Stripe is the idea that there could much more commerce happening on the Internet.

— Patrick Collison

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.

— George Washington

Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.

— Thomas Jefferson

However hard we try to bring in the new; it comes into being only in the midst of clumsy deals.

— Peter Weiss