Commerce Quotes - Page 7

• A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Business, Men, Deceiving

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.47, Full Moon Publications

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• Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

  John F. Kennedy

  Business, People, Growth

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.178, Best Books on

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• Market leaders inevitably slip into decline when they tell the people what they want instead of giving the people what they want.

  Alan Sugar

  Business, Market Leaders, People

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• Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment.

  Washington Irving

  Business, Reality, Romance

  Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, John Holmes Agnew, Kinahan Cornwallis, Washington Irving (1840). “The Knickerbocker: Or, New York Monthly Magazine”, p.304

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• To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe. You know then what you had always been told -- that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick-walled streets and the tyranny of clocks.

  Beryl Markham

  Nature, Animal, Mountain

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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• Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.

  Jonathan Swift

  Business, Men, Imagination

  Jonathan Swift (1761). “Works”, p.301

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• However hard we try to bring in the new; it comes into being only in the midst of clumsy deals.

  Peter Weiss

  Business, Trying, Midst

  Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.63, A&C Black

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• Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Business, Profound, Competition

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• With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Business, Self, Emulation

  The Theory of the Leisure Class ch. 5 (1899)

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• If I were in this business only for the business, I wouldn't be in this business.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Witty, Business

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• When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine he is that polite all the time.

  E. W. Howe

  Business, Men, Trying

  "Country Town Sayings: A Collection of Paragraphs from the Atchison Globe". Book by Edgar Watson Howe, p. 34, 1911.

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• Hold on to your dream. Don't let the people shake you from your dream. Don't let form become more important than the substance of your heart and mind. Don't let commerce determine what you do exclusively.

  Avery Brooks

  Dream, Heart, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are continuous with all the particles of our physical being, as in our breathing we are continuous with the sky. Between our bodies and the world there is unity and commerce.

  David Malouf

  Men, Sky, Breathing

  David Malouf (2012). “An Imaginary Life”, p.147, Random House

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• Jack Bogle's passionate cry of Enough! contains a thought-provoking litany of life lessons regarding our individual roles in commerce and society. Employing a seamless mix of personal anecdotes, hard evidence and all-too-often-underrated subjective admonitions, Bogle challenges each of us to aspire to become better members of our families, our professions and our communities.  Rarely do so few pages provoke so much thought.  Read this book.

  David F. Swensen

  Life Lesson, Book, Thought Provoking

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• The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.

  Samuel

  Men, Pigs, Iron

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• Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Passion, World, Longing

  E.L. Doctorow (2011). “Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:: Selected Essays, 1977-1992”, p.34, Random House

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• The consumption of alcohol is increasing among youth. Targeting young audiences, advertisers portray beer and wine as joyful, socially desirable, and harmless. Producers are promoting new types of alcoholic beverages as competitors in the huge soft-drink market. Grocery and convenience stores and gas stations stock alcoholic beverages side by side with soda pop. Can Christians who are involved in this commerce be indifferent to the physical and moral effects of the alcohol from which they are making their profits?

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Christian, Wine, Beer

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• Is the United States going to decide, are the people of this country going to decide that their Federal Government shall in the future have no right under any implied power or any court-approved power to enter into a solution of a national economic problem, but that that national economic problem must be decided only by the States?... We thought we were solving it, and now it has been thrown right straight in our faces. We have been relegated to the horse-and-buggy definition of interstate commerce.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Horse, Government

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• People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out e-commerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications.

  Marc Andreessen

  Thinking, People, Information

  "The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. April 24, 2012.

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• The development of science has produced an industrial revolution which has brought different peoples in such close contact with one another through colonization and commerce that no matter how some nations may still look down upon others, no country can harbor the illusion that its career is decided wholly within itself.

  John Dewey

  Country, Careers, Different

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.218, 谷月社

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• Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.

  Thomas Paine

  Life, Military, Spirit

  Thomas Paine (1856). “Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America”, p.53

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• My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.

  Joshua Ferris

  Jobs, Book, Believe

  "Joshua Ferris Interview: Rock Star in the Book Store". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2010.

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• When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark Ages of commerce. Maybe one thousandth of this aerial insecticide actually prevents the infestation. The balance goes to the leaves, into the soil, into the water, into all forms of wildlife, into ourselves. What is good for the balance sheet is wasteful of resources and harmful to life.

  Paul Hawken

  Dark, Order, Water

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• My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets that have been neglected in the past. It means keeping Britain open to inward investors, trade and skilled workers. It means cutting red tape which is suffocating growing companies which create jobs.

  Vince Cable

  Jobs, Mean, Cutting

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• Brands are the rock stars of commerce, and create many fans, both at home and abroad.

  Simon Anholt

  Stars, Home, Rocks

  Simon Anholt (2006). “Brand New Justice”, p.41, Routledge

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