Quotes about Commerce
vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is possible that a nation my be the carrier for the world, but she cannot be the merchant. She cannot be the seller and buyer of her own merchandise. The ability to buy must reside out of herself; and therefore, the prosperity of any commercial nation is regulated by the prosperity of the rest. If they are poor she cannot be rich, and her condition, be what it may, is an index of the height of the commercial tide in other nations.
- Thomas Paine
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
- Confucius
Speculation into thing already produced that is not business
- Henry Ford
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
- Edmund Burke
Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.
- George Bernard Shaw
What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.
- Henry David Thoreau
Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
- James A. Garfield
Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.
- Samuel Johnson
If New York has just become a mall for the world, then what's the difference between being here and somewhere else?
- El-P
A people.. who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything
- George Washington
Without ships, we cannot live.
- Winston Churchill