Quotes about Trade
The modern slave trader assures himself (or herself) that the desperate people are better off earning one dollar a day than no dollars at all, and that they are receiving the opportunity to become integrated into the larger world community.
- John Perkins
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
- Margaret Fuller
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
- William Faulkner
it was the Jarvanka idea to try to trade off amnesty for the border wall.
- Michael Wolff
“These men are at peace with us. Let them live and trade in our land; indeed, it is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters in marriage and give our daughters to them.
- Genesis 34:21
And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.
- Genesis 41:57
“Then bring me your livestock,” said Joseph. “Since the money is gone, I will sell you food in exchange for your livestock.”
- Genesis 47:16
You are to buy from your neighbor according to the number of years since the last Jubilee; he is to sell to you according to the number of harvest years remaining.
- Leviticus 25:15
not including the revenue from the merchants, traders, and all the Arabian kings and governors of the land.
- 1 Kings 10:15
A chariot could be imported from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty. Likewise, they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram.
- 1 Kings 10:29
You also have many workers: stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and men skilled in every kind of work—
- 1 Chronicles 22:15
not including the revenue from the merchants and traders. And all the Arabian kings and governors of the land also brought gold and silver to Solomon.
- 2 Chronicles 9:14