Business Quote by Thomas Jefferson

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

— Thomas Jefferson

The spirit of commerce... renders every man willing to live on his own property...& prevents the growth of luxury.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“I content myself with the fact that the general system of our trade is a system of selfishness, is not dictated by the high…

— Joshua Ferris

Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.

— Mason Cooley

Passive commerce . . . should thus . . . [compel us] to content ourselves with the first price of our commodities, and to…

— Alexander Hamilton

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their…

— Thomas Jefferson

Industry, technology, and commerce can thrive only as long as an idealistic national community offers the necessary preconditions. And these do not lie in…

— Adolf Hitler

“Or how does it happen that trade, which after all is nothing more than the exchange of products of various individuals and countries, rules…

— Karl Marx

No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss…

— Theodore Roosevelt

There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs… The time…

— Gertrude Stein

The nation that buys commands, the nation that sells serves; it is necessary to balance trade in order to ensure freedom; the country that…

— Jose Marti