John Stuart Mill Quotes About Trade

Quotes about: Trade

• Trade is a social act.

  John Stuart Mill

  Business, Social, Trade

  John Stuart Mill, G. W. Smith (1998). “John Stuart Mill's Social and Political Thought: Freedom”, p.107, Taylor & Francis

• Trade is a social act. Whoever undertakes to sell any description of any goods to the public, does what affects the interest of other persons, and of society in general; and thus his conduct, in principal, comes within the jurisdiction of society.

  John Stuart Mill

  Doe, Social, Description

  John Stuart Mill (1859). “On Liberty”, p.170

• The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things which they had not previously thought attainable, sometimes works a sort of industrial revolution in a country whose resources were previously undeveloped for want of energy and ambition in the people: inducing those who were satisfied with scanty comforts and little work, to work harder for the gratification of their new tastes, and even to save, and accumulate capital, for the still more complete satisfaction of those tastes at a future time.

  John Stuart Mill

  Country, Ambition, Hard Work

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “Principles of Political Economy: Mill's Works”, p.237, VM eBooks

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