Agency Quote by John Ruskin Download Open image “Commerce is the agency by which the power of choice is obtained.” — John Ruskin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Agency Business Choices Commerce Power Power of choice
COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Commerce is a powerful, underestimated form of expression. We use it to cast a vote with every product we buy. It's a direct expression… — Tobias Lutke Copy Share Image
The regulation of commerce, it is true, is a new power; but that seems to be an addition which few oppose and from which… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[The consumer is] the supreme mover of economic order... for whom all goods are made and towards whom all economic activity is directed. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“Commerce does not have to be a ruthless, brutal enterprise that damages people’s lives. It can be a source of happiness, healing, and hope.” — Brian de Haaff Copy Share Image
Commerce is entitled to a complete and efficient protection in all its legal rights, but the moment it presumes to control a country, or… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Commerce is unexpectedly confident and serene, alert, adventurous, and unwearied. It is very natural in its methods withal, far more so than many fantastic… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“You may trust to the truth of my sympathy; but you must remember that I am engaged in the investigation of enormous religious and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The work, the work, the work. This is what the business is all about. This is the fun, the glory, the pleasure. It's the… — Phil Dusenberry Copy Share Image
Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
We have no clear ideas of the agency of [demonic] spirits, nor is it necessary. The Scripture says little to satisfy our curiosity; but… — John Newton Copy Share Image
It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium. — Loretta Young Copy Share Image
Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take… — Leon Panetta Copy Share Image
I know that God loves us. He allows us to exercise our moral agency even when we misuse it. He permits us to make… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I was taking all prints and I brought them to the Magnum meetings, trying the old Josef Koudelka trick: Give them to photographers, who… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
The WPA was one of the most productive elements of FDR's alphabet soup of agencies because it put people to work building roads, bridges,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In most agencies, account executives outnumber the copywriters two to one. If you were a dairy farmer, would you employ twice as many milkers… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Free agency is a gift of God....The world does not comprehend the significance of that divine gift to the individual. It is as inherent… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
You are also asked to take an oath, and that's the oath of service. The oath of service is not to secrecy, but to… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image