Commerce Quotes

• I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Thinking, Perfect, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.264

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• In democracies, nothing is more great or more brilliant than commerce: it attracts the attention of the public, and fills the imagination of the multitude; all energetic passions are directed towards it.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Passion, Imagination, Democracy

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1847). “Democracy in America”

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• Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed.

  Townsend Harris

  Country, Order, Two

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• If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

  Jeff Bezos

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Online Extra: Jeff Bezos on Word-of-Mouth Power". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. August 2, 2004.

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• Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Truth, Integrity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.70, Xist Publishing

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• Some people love money and get into politics. If they love money so much, they should get into commerce, industry, or do whatever they want - it's no sin. But politics is for serving the people.

  Jose Mujica

  Money, People, Want

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• Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.

  Eddie Vedder

  Jobs, Real, Passion

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• When people asked to buy my work I always said no. I'd had this rather rarefied idea that I didn't want money going through my head while I was making work. But after the car crash I realized that none of my work was owned by anyone. After that, I grew up a bit.

  Cornelia Parker

  Ideas, People, Car

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• Commerce is the great civilizer.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2143, Library of Alexandria

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• The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy on what is being said online. The Department of Commerce is going after piracy. At home, the American government wants anything but Internet freedom.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Home, Government, Doors

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• If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.

  Tom Hanks

  Romantic, Wish, Looks

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• Companies should not have a singular view of profitability. There needs to be a balance between commerce and social responsibility... The companies that are authentic about it will wind up as the companies that make more money.

  Howard Schultz

  Responsibility, Views, Wind

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• Auctions are bizarre combinations of slave market, trading floor, theatre and burlesque... a lot of people are going to be making a lot of excuses or maintaining that they were never part of this.

  Jerry Saltz

  People, Theatre, Trading Floor

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• There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Art, Book, Cds

  "Thomas Kinkade: the secret life and strange death of art's king of twee" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2012.

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• Sameness is what marketers want us to want.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Want, Marketers, Sameness

  Thomas M. Disch (2000). “The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment

  George Washington

  Political, Connections, Diplomatic Relations

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• For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Honesty, Business, Financial

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• The market is the only critic that matters.

  Walter Kirn

  Matter, Critics

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• Commercials are so contemporary and up to date that when you're involved in that visual world, you can't really go backwards.

  Damien Hirst

  World, Backwards, Visuals

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• Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement.

  Dave Hickey

  Beautiful, Art, Seductive

  Dave Hickey (2012). “The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded”, p.30, University of Chicago Press

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• I am a commercial artist because I paint to earn a living. We who earn money from what we produce are all commercial artists.

  Jack White

  Artist, Paint, Produce

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• Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

  James A. Garfield

  Country, Money, Democracy

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• They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none.

  Robert Toombs

  Justice, Special, Principles

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.5

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• I don't mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised.

  John Constable

  Mind, Corn, Fields

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• More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Nonsense, Treaties

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4147, Delphi Classics

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