Commerce Quotes - Page 22

• Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce.

  Karl Marx

  Doe, Capitalist, Productions

  Karl Marx (2016). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume II: The Economist”, p.486, VM eBooks

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• It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.

  Karl Marx

  Cheating, War, Franklin

  Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward Aveling, Friedrich Engels (2011). “Capital, Volume I: A Critique of Political Economy”, p.182, Courier Corporation

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• When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Massacres, Zeal

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.202, Random House

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• The part of Stripe that I've always found most interesting is the idea of facilitating new commerce that wouldn't otherwise happen. Payouts is turning out to be a big part of that. These new networks are efficient, intelligent replacements for offline behemoths.

  Patrick Collison

  Intelligent, Ideas, Interesting

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• Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce.

  David Chipperfield

  Interesting, Balls, Architecture

  "David Chipperfield: A master of permanence comes home" by Rowan Moore, www.theguardian.com. February 05, 2011.

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• The commerce of minds was necessarily the first commerce in the world, ... since before bartering things one must barter signs, and it is necessary therefore that signs be instituted.There is no market or exchange without language. The first instrument of all commerce is language.

  Paul Valery

  Mind, World, Firsts

  "Reflections on the World Today" by Paul Valery, (p. 156), 1931.

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• It's very important for folks to understand that when there's more trade, there's more commerce.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Important

  Remarks at The Hilton Hotel, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. April 21, 2001.

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• An important contribution to a much-neglected but very important subject. No other author has set out to do what Davenport accomplishes, which is a systematic study of how key representatives of America's rising tide of religion attempted a theoretical understanding of, and practical response to, America's rising tide of commerce.

  Mark Noll

  America, Keys, Understanding

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• Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Solitude, Sin, Purity

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,
  Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;
  Saw the heavens fill with commerce, Argosies of magic sails,
  Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;
  Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew,
  From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue.

  Alfred the Great

  Rain, Twilight, Eye

  "Locksley Hall" l. 123 (1842)

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• In populous cities, which are the seat of commerce and manufactures, the middle ranks of inhabitants, who derive their subsistence from the dexterity or labour of their hands, are commonly the most prolific, the most useful, and, in that sense, the most respectable part of the community.

  Edward Gibbon

  Hands, Cities, History

  Edward Gibbon (1846). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.113

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• I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Able, Comfort, Female

  Samuel Johnson (1850). “The history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia, a tale”, p.33

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• A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.

  Samuel Johnson

  Respect, Selfish, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.416

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• Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Games, Play, Skills

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• I hold all idea of regulating the currency to be an absurdity; the very terms of regulating the currency and managing the currency I look upon to be an absurdity; the currency should regulate itself; it must be regulated by the trade and commerce of the world; I would neither allow the Bank of England nor any private banks to have what is called the management of the currency.

  Richard Cobden

  Ideas, Looks, World

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• The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Art, Business, Winning

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• Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Business, Men, Idealist

  Woodrow Wilson (1972). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Spring comes with joyous laugh, and song, and sunshine, and the burnt sacrifice of the over-ripe boot and the hoary overshoe. The cowboy and the new milch cow carol their roundelay. So does the veteran hen. The common egg of commerce begins to come forth into the market at a price where it can be secured with a step-ladder, and all nature seems tickled.

  Edgar Wilson Nye

  Song, Spring, Sunshine

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• Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.

  Mason Cooley

  Blood, Greedy, Thirsty

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• I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and heart to get there. That's how I saw it, and see it still.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, Ocean, Blessed

  Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

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• For over a century, popular struggles in the democracies have used the nation-state to temper raw capitalism. The power of voters has offset the power of capital. But as national barriers have come down in the name of freer commerce, so has the capacity of governments to manage capitalism in a broad public interest. So the real issue is not "trade" but democratic governance.

  Robert Kuttner

  Real, Struggle, Democracies Have

  "Globalization and Its Critics". The American Prospect, Volume 12, July 2-16, 2001.

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• Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Agriculture, Liberty, Four

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Style is a capitalist invention. It's a trademark. It's very useful in the world of commerce to have a good trademark, but it wasn't my first concern. I got restless

  Art Spiegelman

  Style, World, Firsts

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• Commerce unites; religion divides.

  Alice Tisdale Hobart

  Religion, Divides

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• How often have not the demons called 'Nix,' drawn women and girls into the water, and there had commerce with them, with fearful consequences.

  Martin Luther

  Girl, Religious, Humor

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.325

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