Commerce Quotes - Page 18

• In the olden times, the diversity of groups was largely a geographical matter. There were many societies, but each, within its own territory, was comparatively homogeneous. But with the development of commerce, transportation, intercommunication, and emigration, countries like the United States are composed of a combination of different groups with different traditional customs. It is this situation which has, perhaps more than any other one cause, forced the demand for an educational institution which shall provide something like a homogeneous and balanced environment for the young.

  John Dewey

  Country, Educational, Diversity

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• ...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.

  Tad Williams

  Wine, Coca Cola, Fries

  Tad Williams (1998). “Otherland: City of Golden Shadow”, p.89, Penguin

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• The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.

  Ben Elton

  Book, Ignorance, Keys

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• Trade on the Internet is becoming very widespread. The problem is our laws have not caught up with electronic commerce.

  Susan Bysiewicz

  Law, Becoming, Problem

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• Do you really think you'd win a PR war against a bunch of committed librarians?' He thought about this, but he knew I was right. The libraries were a treasured institution and so central to everyday life that government and commerce rarely did anything that might upset them.Some say they were more powerful than the military, or, if not, they were certainly quieter. As they say: Don't mess with librarians. Only they use a stronger word than 'mess'.

  Jasper Fforde

  Powerful, Military, War

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• The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.

  Katharine Lee Bates

  Cities, Shops, Warehouse

  Katharine Lee Bates (1907). “From Gretna Green to Land's End: A Literary Journey in England”

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• 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.

  George Washington

  Doors, Paper, Ruins

  "The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799".

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• Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science - he is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God. He is employed in the service of his God. He has strictly to obey his God. And above all, he has to aim at the glory of his God.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Faith, Art, Men

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• You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You make commerce your business; we make religion our business.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Business, Great Inventions, East

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• It's all about commerce. Movies are not made like paintings, where you can make them for free and put them at the side. Movies are supposed to make money.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Sides, Painting, Making Money

  "Police Academy Week: a chat with actor/memoirist Steve Guttenberg". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2012.

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• America has an important role to play as the world leader in creating a global order, free trade, free waterways, free commerce, free movement of people. That happens because of U.S. military might.

  David Brooks

  Military, Order, Play

  "David Brooks: Rand Paul 'Leading The Party One Way, Marco Rubio Is Leading Another'". www.realclearpolitics.com. March 17, 2013.

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• I am not a member of the chamber of commerce for show business, believe me, but there are some really good people in the business, and [Tom] Hanks has this everyman decency onscreen, but he actually is that guy.

  Kurt Fuller

  Believe, People, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf. The vapor climbs the sunbeam, and comes back in blessings upon the exhausted herb. The exhalation of the plant is wafted to the ocean. And so goes on the beautiful commerce of nature. And all because of dissimilarity--because no one thing is sufficient in itself, but calls for the assistance of something else, and repays by a contribution in turn.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Beautiful, Ocean, Blessing

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• The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.

  James Buchan

  Philosophy, Political, Bags

  "Market failures". www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2008.

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• Number one, you can sell before you buy. I call it reverse e-commerce. You take a picture, you list it for sale, you sell it, you collect the revenue, then you go buy it and send it to the customer.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Numbers, Lists, Reverse

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• I don't know if commerce can every truly be information. I think that's just commerce, that's just selling you something.

  Gerard Way

  Thinking, Information, Selling

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• The scientific world, the materialistic world, the world of commerce, the world of business, the world of individualism, the world of capitalism, world of communism - all these worlds are the old story now. Where we think we exploit nature, we exploit people. Market rules, profit rules, money rules. We work for name, fame, power, money, profit. That's the old story.

  Satish Kumar

  Thinking, Names, People

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!

  Thomas A. Edison

  Stealing, Stolen, Know How

  "Tesla: The Modern Sorcerer". Book by Daniel Blair Stewart, 1999.

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• True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is a spiritual commerce with the Creator of heaven and earth.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spiritual, Prayer, Exercise

  Charles Spurgeon (1998). “Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare (6 In 1 Anthology)”, p.59, Whitaker House

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• For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.

  Tom Peters

  Technology, Blue, Office

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• You've to make consumers smart. An e-commerce portal doesn't sell a product at cheaper rates, instead an offline shop sells it at a costlier prices.

  Jack Ma

  Smart, Portal, Offline

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• My dream was to set up my own e-commerce company. In 1999, I gathered 18 people in my apartment and spoke to them for two hours about my vision. Everyone put their money on the table, and that got us $60,000 to start Alibaba. I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name.

  Jack Ma

  Dream, Names, Two

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• Yes, e-commerce is a strange situation for an old guy like me. You can buy a TV online, OK, but to buy a dress or shoes? Ugh. The customer has to go back to the store and breathe and smell and have a good time. Because shopping is a good time - like going to a nice restaurant.

  Max Azria

  Nice, Shoes, Shopping

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• Commerce is the agency by which the power of choice is obtained.

  John Ruskin

  Agency, Choices, Power Of Choice

  John Ruskin (1872). “The Works of John Ruskin”, p.95

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• Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others. Everyone's sense of virtue is degraded by the present reality. A revolutionary principle is embedded in the global economic system, awaiting broader recognition: Human dignity is indivisible. Across the distances of culture and nations, across vast gulfs of wealth and poverty, even the least among us are entitled to dignity, and no justification exists or brutalizing them in the pursuit of commerce.

  William Greider

  Distance, Reality, Principles

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