Commerce Quotes

473 quotes by 353 authors

Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests. — James A. Garfield
What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter. — Henry David Thoreau
Goods are displayed by thousands of shopkeepers with a sense of beauty that finds no other outlet. — Mignon McLaughlin
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property. — Cornel West
Surely if each one saw another's heart, There would be no commerce, No sale or bargain pass: all would disperse And live apart. — George Herbert
Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty. — Mason Cooley
Those wishing to be successful in the market can't ignore the boomer numbers, the wealth and spending power they have. — Pat Conroy
There is too much talk and gossip; pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profits... All this traffic sharpens… — Edgar Degas
Success is what sells. — Andy Warhol
The real genius to make a marketplace flourish doesn't come from the government. It comes from the individual genius of its people. — Jim Rohn
Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint. — Frank Capra
The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing. — Irving Stone
Commercials are so contemporary and up to date that when you're involved in that visual world, you can't really go backwards. — Damien Hirst
I don't mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised. — John Constable
I'm not opposed to commerce, even though I'm an artist. — Tracey Emin
The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything. — Theodore Sturgeon
Sameness is what marketers want us to want. — Thomas M. Disch
Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement. — Dave Hickey
Spring comes with joyous laugh, and song, and sunshine, and the burnt sacrifice of the over-ripe boot and the hoary overshoe. The cowboy and the… — Edgar Wilson Nye
Auctions are bizarre combinations of slave market, trading floor, theatre and burlesque... a lot of people are going to be making a lot of excuses… — Jerry Saltz

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