Commerce Quotes

• Commerce changes entirely the fate and genius of nations, by communicating arts and opinions, circulating money, and introducing the materials of luxury; she first opens and polishes the mind, then corrupts and enervates both that and the body.

  Thomas Gray

  Fate, Genius, Nations

  "The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems and Correspondence, with Memoirs of His Life and Writings".

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• Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.

  William E. Gladstone

  Wealth, Equalizer, Nations

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• Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

  Patrick Henry

  Freedom, Perfect, Healthy

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• It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Different, Research, Vulnerable

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• COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Money, Pockets, Kind

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.38, University of Georgia Press

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• You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a temple 'Athene' or 'Venus;' but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Cities, Names, Liberty

  George Edward Woodberry (1914). “Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913”

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• If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people.

  John Jay Chapman

  People, Literature, World

  John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Politics”

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• If everything that you do is for the market, it won't work.

  T. Allen Lawson

  Ifs

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• Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Failure, Long, Contentment

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature”, p.844

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• What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

  James Madison

  Hazards, Branches, May

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.288

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

  William Blake

  Art, Business, Design

  William Blake, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom (1982). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.642, Univ of California Press

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• Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

  Antonin Scalia

  Teaching, Learning, Character

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• Certainly the advent of technology and electronic commerce has had an immense impact on the real estate industry.

  Michael Oxley

  Real, Technology, Impact

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• The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

  Confucius

  Money, Business, Philosophical

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Simple, Ideas, Simplicity

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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• I fully support global commerce.

  Jim Costa

  Support

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• Communications is at the heart of e-commerce and community.

  Meg Whitman

  Communication, Heart, Community

  "EBay to buy Internet telephone company Skype / $2.6 billion deal will give online auction sellers, buyers another way to communicate" by September 13, 2005, www.sfgate.com. September 13, 2005.

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• For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.

  Hu Shih

  People, Chinese, Tools

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• A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.

  Richard Steele

  Sex, Men, Views

  Richard Steele (1729). “The Spectator”, p.272

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• My goal is to ensure the Northern Border is safe, secure and allows for the free flow of travel and commerce.

  Rick Larsen

  Travel, Goal, Borders

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• Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and roads by allowing for increases in many of the programs and agencies to help protect these important areas of commerce and travel.

  Jim Ryun

  Travel, Agency, Sky

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• On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

  Gore Vidal

  Debtors, United States, Literature

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

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• I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it.

  Austan Goolsbee

  Data, Information, Internet

  "Goolsbee gets top W.H. econ job" by Mike Allen, www.politico.com. September 10, 2010.

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

  Richard Cobden

  Peace, War, Aristocratic

  Richard Cobden (1854). “Russia and the Eastern Question”, p.33

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• Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.

  W. Averell Harriman

  War, Europe, Bankers

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