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Commerce Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train of calamities inseparable…
- Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices.
- Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.
- The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the most productive source…
- The natural effect of low interest is to increase trade and industry; because undertakings of every kind can be prosecuted with greater advantage.
- But the greatest obstacle of all to the successful prosecution of a new branch of industry in a country, in which it was before unknown,…
- There is at this present juncture, a certain fermentation of mind, a certain activity of speculation and enterprise which if properly directed may be made…
- The tendency of a national bank is to increase public and private credit. The former gives power to the state, for the protection of its…
- The Spirit of Enterprise, which characterizes the commercial part of America, has left no occasion of displaying itself unimproved. It is not at all probable…
- There are still to be found , or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the states, though dismembered…
- Passive commerce . . . should thus . . . [compel us] to content ourselves with the first price of our commodities, and to see…
- By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise, it…
- To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients,…
- Manufacturing establishments not only occasion a positive augmentation of the produce and revenue of the society . . . they contribute essentially to rendering them…
- The principal purposes to be answered by union are these the common defense of the members; the preservation of the public peace as well against…
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- Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard
- Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. — Francis Bacon
- I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to… — Joe Barton
- For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. — Charles Baudelaire
- Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online. — Jeff Bezos
- Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter… — Daniel Boone
- In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to… — Les Brown
- The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy.… — James Buchan
- The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the… — James Buchan
- Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. — Anthony Burgess
- In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal… — George Canning
- A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce… — John Jay Chapman