Quotessence
Home / Topics / Commerce Quotes

Commerce Quotes

Browse 687 quotes about Commerce.

Related topics

E CommercePeopleWorldArtBusinessIfsMenNationsIndustryWayTradeGovernmentThinkingStatesShouldWantWarAgricultureCountryInterestMayMindIdeasImportantLongPoliticalHumansWellsCultureKnowsSellsBelieveFirstsGivingMeanNeedsStillsAmericaArticlesCommonEconomyLaborLibertyPassionSpiritWealthAgeChamberChamber Of CommerceEffectsFormHas BeensIndividualInternetLittlesMadeProsperityTogetherUseYearsArtistBigsCompanyConsumersDoeGoodsKindMatterOrderSelfSocialStudyTwoUnitedValuesWindBenefitsCapitalismCitiesClausesCommodityCreditEconomicEndsEnterpriseInnovationInternationalLanguageLawLooksMembersMilitaryNamesNaturalPrinciplesRealRegulationSeemsShowsSoulmore

Commerce Quotes

“When profits are pursued by geographic interchange of goods, so that commerce for profit becomes the central mechanism of the system, we usually call it "commercial capitalism." In such a system goods are conveyed from ares where they are more common (and therefore cheaper) to areas where they are less common (and therefore less cheap). This process leads to regional specialization and to division of labor, both in agricultural production and in handicrafts.”

ProcessCommonCapitalismAreasLaborProfitProductionsGoodsDivisionMechanismCommercePursuedCheaperSpecializationInterchangeDivision Of LaborHandicrafts
Author:Carroll Quigley
Create image

“Every individual, from the common mechanic, that works in wood or clay, to the prime minister that regulates with the dash of his pen the agriculture, the breeding of cattle, the mining, or the commerce of a nation, will perform his business the better, the better he understands the nature of things,and the more his understanding is enlightened.”

IndividualNationsUnderstandingCommonWoodsMinistersEnlightenedPensPrimeCommerceAgriculturePrime MinisterMechanicClayBreedingCattleMiningE Commerce
Book:History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch
Create image

“Today, no one would dispute that information technology has become the backbone of commerce. It underpins the operations of individual companies, ties together far-flung supply chains, and, increasingly, links businesses to the customers they serve. Hardly a dollar or a euro changes hands anymore without the aid of computer systems.”

HandsTodayTogetherIndividualCompanyTechnologyInformationComputerDollarsCustomersAidsChainsOperationsTiesLinksCommerceDisputesBackboneInformation TechnologyEuroSupply ChainComputer Systems
Author:Nicholas G. Carr
Create image

“It has been the White Race who has been the world builder, the maker of cities and commerce and continents. It is the White Man who is the sole builder of civilizations. It was he who build the Egyptian civilization, the great unsurpassed Roman civilization, the Greek civilization of beauty and culture, and who, after having been dealt a serious blow by a new Semitic religion, wallowed through the Dark Ages, finally extricated himself, and then build the great European civilization.”

MenWorldHas BeensAgeCultureDarkWhiteRaceCitiesSeriousCivilizationBlowGreekMakersSoleContinentsCommerceWhite ManDark AgesBuilderEgyptianWhite RaceRoman CivilizationGreek CivilizationEgyptian Civilization
Author:Ben Klassen
Create image

“The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That's enough to pay for a new curtain for the secretary of commerce's office, to bribe a farmer not to plant 38 acres with corn ... seven weeks of salary for a Customs man assigned to save us from the terror of high-quality, low priced foreign TV sets, or the subsidy on 6,000 bushels of wheat to prop up the Soviet regime. Surely civilization would collapse without such essential services.”

MenYearsEnoughLastsPayQualityFourWeekTvsCivilizationTaxesEssentialsOfficeLowsPaidPlantSevenTerrorCustomsFarmersSovietRegimesCollapseCommerceLast YearSecretaryCurtainsSalaryCornWheatPropsHigh QualityBribeAcresSubsidiesMedianFederal Taxes
Author:Alan Bock
Create image

“At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about "a public debt being a public blessing"; that the stock representing it was a creation of active capital for the aliment of commerce, manufactures and agriculture. This paradox was well adapted to the minds of believers in dreams.”

MindWellsWisdomDreamPoliticsEconomyHeardCreationBlessingDebtActiveBelieverLiberalismParadoxCommerceAgricultureFundingRepresentingAdaptedNational Debt
Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State
Create image

“What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not to administer charity; not to make roads and railways; but simply to defend the natural rights of man -- to protect person and property -- to prevent the aggressions of the powerful upon the weak -- in a word, to administer justice. This is the natural, the original, office of a government. It was not intended to do less: it ought not to be allowed to do more.”

PeopleMenWantPersonsGovernmentNaturalJusticePowerfulTeachRightsOughtProtectOfficeWeakOriginalsPropertyCharityEducateAggressionCommerceRailwayE CommerceNatural Rights
Book:The Man versus the State: Great Essays
Create image

“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.”

MenNextGraceDogDangerousHabitDignityMethodLaysPropertyIslamThis LifeCurseProphetInsecurityFollowersApathyFearfulCommerceAgricultureSanctityRefinementFrenzySluggishRadical IslamProselytizing
Book:Churchill: The Power of Words
Create image

“In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed - a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.”

LongClassModernIncreaseSellsCompetitionProportionLabourArticlesExposedCommerceCommodityWorking ClassProletariatBourgeoisieFluctuationVicissitudesLabourers
Book:Karl Marx: Selected Writings
Create image

“Nature seems to have taken a particular care to disseminate her blessings among the different regions of the world, with an eye to their mutual intercourse and traffic among mankind, that the nations of the several parts of the globe might have a kind of dependence upon one another and be united together by their common interest.”

WorldKindDifferentSeemsMightEyeCareTogetherNationsInterestUnitedCommonTakenMankindParticularBlessingRegionsMutualCommerceGlobesTrafficDependenceIntercourseCommon Interests
Book:The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 1-314
Create image

“The care of our national commerce redounds more to the riches and prosperity of the public than any other act of government.”

GovernmentCareProsperityRichesCommerce
Book:The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of B. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection, and Macaulay's essay on his life and works
Create image

“There are no more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants. They knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices, distribute the gifts of Nature, find work for the poor, and wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great.”

TogetherWealthPoorRichMankindMembersOfficeMutualCommerceIntercourseMerchantsCommonwealthMagnificenceGood Office
Book:The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works
Create image

“Commerce however we may please ourselves with the contrary opinion, is one of the daughters of fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled.”

MayMotherOpinionPleaseDaughterFortuneAppearanceExpectedContraryCommerceDeceitfulAbodeResidenceContinuance
Book:The works of Samuel Johnson, with Murphy's essay, ed. by R. Lynam
Create image

“There is a certain artificial polish, a commonplace vivacity acquired by perpetually mingling in the beau monde; which, in the commerce of world, supplies the place of natural suavity and good-humour, but is purchased at the expense of all original and sterling traits of character.”

WorldCharacterCertainNaturalHumourOriginalsExpensesArtificialTraitsCommercePolishCommonplaceSuppliesE CommerceSterlingMinglingVivacityGood Humour
Book:The works
Create image

“Whatever has a tendency to promote the civil intercourse of nations by an exchange of benefits is a subject as worthy of philosophy as of politics.”

PhilosophyNationsSubjectsBenefitsWorthyTendenciesCommerceIntercourse
Book:THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…
Create image

“Commerce is no other than the traffic of two individuals, multiplied on a scale of number; and, by the same rule that Nature intended the intercourse of two, she intended that of all!”

TwoIndividualNumbersScalesCommerceTrafficIntercourse
Book:The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies
Create image

“The Indian who fells the tree that he may gather the fruit, and the Arab who plunders the caravans of commerce are actuated by the same impulse of savage nature, and relinquish for momentary rapine the long and secure possession of the most important blessings.”

MayLongImportantTreeBlessingFruitPossessionSecureIndianImpulseCommerceSavagesMomentaryPlunderCaravans
Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Create image

“Casually, unconsciously, but with deadly effectiveness, western man all round the globe destroyed the traditional gods and the ancient societies with his commerce and his science. ... Does it mean nothing to him if great areas of the world, where western influence has been predominant, emerge from this tutelage unable to return to the old life, yet unfitted for the new? It is hard to believe that the future could ever belong to men demonstrating irresponsibility on so vast a scale.”

IfsMenWorldBelieveMeanDoeHas BeensHardInfluenceReturnAreasWesternRoundsAncientScalesTraditionalDestroyedCommerceGlobesEffectivenessHard To BelieveDemonstratingIrresponsibilityOld LifeTutelage
Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
Create image

“Our Republic is not a pastoral, not a military, not an agricultural, not a nomadic, not a clerical, but a business civilization. Nor is there anything random, casual or accidental about the United States as a business society. It is thoroughly well integrated - organized from top to bottom for the maximum efficiency of commerce and industry, for the maximum efficiency of making money.”

WellsStatesUnitedUnited StatesMilitaryIndustryCivilizationBottomMaking MoneyOrganizedRepublicCommerceEfficiencyMaximumCasualIntegratedNomadic
Book:The Folks at Home
Create image

“I don't think I'm a risk-taker. I don't think any entrepreneur is. I think that's one of those myths of commerce. The new entrepreneur is more values-led: you do what looks risky to other people because that's what your convictions tell you to do. Other companies would say I'm taking risks, but that's my path - it doesn't feel like risk to me.”

PeopleThinkingFeelsLooksValuesBusinessCompanyPathRiskEntrepreneurConvictionMythCommerceTaking Risks
Author:Anita Roddick
Create image

“There's more private security in the United States than there are publicly funded forces, like police. What you don't want is a meld of government and commerce - you really want to keep those two things separate - because once you have that meld, you've got megacorruption, and you have no third force to whom you can say this stuff is poisoning our kids.”

WantTwoStatesGovernmentKidsForceStuffUnitedUnited StatesSecurityThirdsPoliceTwo ThingsCommercePoisoning
Author:Margaret Atwood
Create image

“When harvests are exuberant, joy and health follow in their train; but let delusive prosperity draw industry from agriculture; let an insiduous disease attack one of its important products; let an insect, or a parasite, fasten on a single esculent, and mark the effect upon commerce and human life. Upon such an event all business is deranged.”

HumansImportantJoyEffectsEventsProductsIndustryDiseaseDrawsMarkTrainProsperityHuman LifeCommerceAgricultureHarvestInsectsParasitesDeranged
Author:Elias Hasket Derby
Create image