Brokers Quote by Daniel Defoe

“The Netherlands grew rich on the back of trading, particularly between Asia and Europe. However, the Netherlands had no repeat innovation industry. When its…

— Edward A. Hudson

The Dutch are a very practical people.

— Famke Janssen

Amsterdam is not Holland. It is a city that attracts people from all over Holland. And lots of international tourists and party people.

— Eddy de Clercq

“At first the rebels seemed to play the role of Don Quixote, courageously tilting at invincible windmills. Yet within eighty years the Dutch had…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Sometimes that Dutch consensus approach doesn't move you forward fast enough.

— Frans van Houten

To play Holland, you've got to play the Dutch

— Ruud Gullit

“Compare Holland with Russia; you see only marshy and sterile islands in the former, which rise from the center of the ocean: a small…

— Frederick the Great

For all it is a smaller country in terms of geography, Holland is the most closely aligned market to the U.K. in terms of…

— Sara Davies

We want the Netherlands to leave the E.U., join EFTA and, like Switzerland, negotiate bilateral trade agreements with the E.U. and the rest of…

— Geert Wilders

Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once…

— John Lothrop Motley

Holland is a land of intense paradox. It is quite impossible, but it is there.

— M E W Sherwood

The Netherlands believes in a vigorous Europe with a commission that is independent and robust.

— Frans Timmermans