Best Commercial Quotes
834 Commercial quotes by 704 unique authors
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The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?
— David Sarnoff
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We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
— Nadia Comaneci
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[Commercial radio] is owned by one or two corporations now, and they're not in the music business. They're in the advertising business.... So let's not…
— Elvis Costello
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To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In 1891, during the Presidency of William Henry Harrison [Benjamin Harrison], electric lights were first installed in the White House, the residence of the leaders…
— Jimmy Carter
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Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or…
— C. Wright Mills
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Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has its…
— Samuel Johnson
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But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold…
— Robert Frost
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The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his…
— Frederic Bastiat
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The Trilateralist Commission is international...(and)...is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political…
— Barry Goldwater
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While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the…
— Andrew Carnegie
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It is true that the trees are for human use. But these are aesthetic uses as well as commercial uses-uses for the spiritual wealth of…
— Joseph LeConte
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From that night on, the electron-up to that time largely the plaything of the scientist-had clearly entered the field as a potent agent in the…
— Robert Andrews Millikan
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You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard it…
— Charlie Munger
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It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
— Barry Gibb
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Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like…
— Richard Dawkins
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True transformation occurs only when we can look at ourselves squarely and face our attachments and inner demons, free from the buzz of commercial distraction…
— Julia Hill
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For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female…
— Gloria Steinem
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I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about, I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, "What am I afraid of?" I…
— Kevin Sorbo
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If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by…
— David Ricardo
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Any demanding high technology tends to develop influential and dedicated constituencies of those who link its commercial success with both the public welfare and their…
— Amory Lovins
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As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles, and, as a toy it is beautiful; but ... its commercial value will…
— Elisha Gray
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I have a dream, and a plan, to combine the commercial possibilities of Valentine's Day with the substance and meaning of black history month. I…
— Mo Rocca
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I was doing a campaign once for a manufacturer, and I couldn't think of an ideas, and I was kind of desperate about it. The…
— David Ogilvy
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Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.
— Ralph Ellison
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