Quotes on Commerce

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

The maxim of the British people is 'business as usual.'

The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

Be the first to seize intersecting ground, that is ground which lies the intersections of borders or intersections of main thoroughfares of commerce and travel. Your occupation of it gives you access to all who border it and all who would covet it. On intersecting ground, if you establish alliances you are safe, if you lose alliances you are in peril.

According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. Well, Hubert Humphrey may have sinned in the eyes of God, as we all do, but according to those definitions of Gandhi's, it was Hubert Humphrey without sin.

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

That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree

Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice.