Business Quote by Samuel Johnson

When we make purchases on credit, they give us only an illusion of prosperity.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Typical scenario: a buyer buys and never gives credit even if he is satisfied -- a seller sells and never makes after sales -…

— Manos Abou Chabke

Again, He that sells upon Credit, asks a Price for what he sells, equivalent to the Principal and Interest of his Money for the…

— Benjamin Franklin

The commercial world is very frequently put into confusion by the bankruptcy of merchants, that assumed the splendour of wealth only to obtain the…

— Samuel Johnson

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

— Anita Brookner

An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of it; while…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.

— Mason Cooley

No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

— E. W. Howe

“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

Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.

— William E. Gladstone

This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone tocount…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson