Quote by Thomas Sowell Download Open image ““As late as 1912, Britain carried more than half the goods shipped across the seas of the”” — Thomas Sowell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“In 1961, before the container was in international use, ocean freight costs alone accounted for 12 percent of the value of U.S. exports and… — Marc Levinson Copy Share Image
“for centuries much of the world's international trade was carried in ships that sailed past West Africa on their way between Europe and Asia… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“British merchants became notably more aggressive and successful in exploring extra-European markets, and Crisp’s progress, from a concentration on Mediterranean commerce to involvement in… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
“Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent ten thousand miles to China to be filleted,… — Rose George Copy Share Image
They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
Trade carried by sea has grown fourfold since 1970 and is still growing. In 2011, the 360 commercial ports of the United States took… — Rose George Copy Share Image
Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
“Whilst the ships stayed, our allowance was somewhat bettered, by a daily proportion of biscuit, which the sailors would pilfer to sell, give, or… — John Smith Copy Share Image
“Ah! These commercial interests -- spoiling the finest life under the sun. Why must the sea be used for trade -- and for war… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“By far the biggest expense in this process was shifting the cargo from land transport to ship at the port of departure and moving… — Marc Levinson Copy Share Image
“the company—that at the eleventh hour an old ship with a lower standard of speed had been put on in place of the vessel… — Henry James Copy Share Image
In the past, the U.K. got away with selling things that weren't unusual. Now it's no use trying to export without having something that's… — James Dyson Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“In 1962, Democratic President John F. Kennedy, like both Democratic and Republican Presidents and Secretaries of the Treasury in earlier years, pointed out that “it… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“One third of all Scots in the mid-nineteenth century moved from one county to another” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Just as price fluctuations allocate scarce resources which have alternative uses, price controls which limit those fluctuations reduce the incentives for individuals to limit… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of life that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down with it, politicians have now moved on into micro-managing automobile companies and medical care. They are not going to stop unless they get stopped. And that is not going to happen until the voters recognize the fact that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
