Commerce Quote by Walter Scott Download Open image ““Trade has all the fascination of gambling without its moral guilt.”” — Walter Scott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Commerce Regret
“It's only gambling if you're wagering something substantial. As opposed to? Information, intelligence, the profits of the mind. Greater things can be exchanged than… — Rachel Saylor Copy Share Image
“Gambling is only the resource of those who do not know what to do with themselves” — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Who’s to say that gamblers don’t really understand it better than anyone else? Isn’t everything worthwhile a gamble? Can’t good come around sometimes through… — Tartt Donna Copy Share Image
“For why is gambling a whit worse than any other method of acquiring money? How, for instance, is it worse than trade? True, out… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“That is why I taught you how to trade, because that's what life is - a barter of choices and consequences.” — Samantha Sotto Copy Share Image
In our most Puritan of society, gambling-like other pleasures-is either taxed, restricted to certain hours, or forbidden altogether. Yet the impulse to gamble remains… — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
“people gamble to lose money. They come to the casinos for the moment in which they feel alive, to ride the spinning wheel and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Most of us are busy gambling on the most dangerous risk of all—living our whole life not doing what we want on the bet… — Jake Ducey Copy Share Image
Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“Of all the train, none escaped except Wamba, who showed upon the occasion much more courage than those who pretended to greater sense.” — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Where shall the lover rest, Whom the fates sever From his true maiden's breast, Parted for ever? Where, through groves deep and high, Sounds… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland? — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole, Yet 'tis Thy voice, my God, that bids… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“but he had only received that sort of answer usually given by those who are more obstinate in following their own course, than strong… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love. ” — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
“Designing posters, for me, is not only a commercial pursuit but also a philosophical endeavor.” — Fang Chen Copy Share Image
If I were in this business only for the business, I wouldn't be in this business. — Samuel Goldwyn Copy Share Image
Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities;… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on the verge… — Eugene Kennedy Copy Share Image
Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want. — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Some have suggested that ideally there must be some international body that would treat areas like the Arctic as a global commerce, a bit… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
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