Business Quote by Thomas Gray

Commerce changes entirely the fate and genius of nations, by communicating arts and opinions, circulating money, and introducing the materials of luxury; she first…

— Thomas Gray

“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

Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind…he trades with the same countries ...(that…

— Thomas Paine

“Governments might come and go, wars will reshape the Ununited Kingdoms many times. But companies will stay, and flourish. Show me any major event…

— Jasper Fforde

In democracies, nothing is more great or more brilliant than commerce: it attracts the attention of the public, and fills the imagination of the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.

— William E. Gladstone

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for…

— William Blake

They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors…

— Robert Toombs

Commerce has changed the ethics of citizenship and the incentives for national service. America now buys private contractors - we used to call them…

— Michael Ignatieff

Commerce is the great civilizer.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Thomas Jefferson