Commerce Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• To move forward, what's required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moving Forward, Space, Agendas

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• Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.

  Russell Kirk

  Kings, Men, Self

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• Commerce is really as interesting as nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Interesting, Trade

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.147, Delphi Classics

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• The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

  John Philpot Curran

  Art, Firsts, Invention

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• The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.

  Samuel Gompers

  Commodity, Articles, Labor

  Samuel Gompers (1925). “Organized labor...”

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• God is making commerce His missionary.

  Joseph Cook

  Missionary

  Joseph Cook (1879). “Biology, with preludes on current events. Repr”

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• 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.

  Margaret Halsey

  Military, Civilization, United States

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• 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.

  Anita Roddick

  Business, Thinking, People

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• Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has vanity in the commerce and society of the world.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Vanity, Medicine, Poison

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• Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. It differs, however, from most other branches of human activity in that not only are the pathways of scientific thought determined by the presuppositions of the scientists but their goals are the testing and revision of old presuppositions and the creation of new.

  Gregory Bateson

  Art, Sleep, Goal

  "Mind and Nature - a Necessary Unity". Book by Gregory Bateson, new edition, 1988.

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• Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that it is not likely to be scared by an imaginary danger, which is so small, that it scarcely admits of calculation. Commerce, therefore, in my opinion, is apt to decay in absolute governments, not because it is there less secure, but because it is less honourable.

  David Hume

  Real, Passion, Government

  'Essays' (1741-2) 'Of Civil Liberty'

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• We need to create an enterprise culture, a society where successful entrepreneurs are respected and admired, not treated with suspicion and disdain. And in which we see less envy of other peoples' achievements and mistrust of commerce, and a greater readiness to get out there and join in the process.

  Norman Tebbit

  Successful, Envy, Entrepreneur

  Speech to the Institute of Directors' Annual Conference, February 26, 1985.

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• Commerce is entitled to a complete and efficient protection in all its legal rights, but the moment it presumes to control a country, or to substitute its fluctuating expedients for the high principles of natural justice that ought to lie at the root of every political system, it should be frowned on, and rebuked.

  James F. Cooper

  Country, Lying, Law

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• Faith is the backbone of the social and the foundation of the commercial fabric; remove faith between man and man, and society and commerce fall to pieces. There is not a happy home on earth but stands on faith; our heads are pillowed on it, we sleep at night in its arms with greater security for the safety of our lives, peace, and prosperity than bolts and bars can give.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Faith, Fall, Sleep

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 218, 1895.

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• Labour once spent has no influence on the future value of any article; it isgone and lost for ever. In commerce bygones are forever bygones; and we are alwaysstarting clearat each moment, judging the values of things with a view to future utility.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Views, Judging, Forever

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• All forms of commerce are adversarial.

  Barry Diller

  Form

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• Stripe is building payment infrastructure for the Web, so we make it easy to accept credit cards online. Before Stripe, the way youd do this is using the legacy banking structure. It was slow, it was complex, it was expensive. It had this very chilling effect on e-commerce.

  John Collison

  Stripes, Banking, Credit

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• Art, industry, and commerce, so long crushed and overborne, were stirring into renewed life, and a crowd of adventurous men, nurtured in war and incapable of repose, must seek employment for their restless energies in fields of peaceful enterprise.

  Francis Parkman

  Art, War, Men

  Francis Parkman (1865). “Pioneers of France in the New World”, p.214

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• Books, says Lord Bacon, can never teach us the use of books; the student must learn by commerce with mankind to reduce his speculations to practice. No man should think so highly of himself as to think he can receive but little light from books; no one so meanly, as to believe he can discover nothing but what is to be learned from them.

  Samuel Johnson

  Believe, Book, Men

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• New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.

  Patricia Marx

  New York, Culture, Cuisine

  "Michael's". www.newyorker.com. December 21, 2009.

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• To cover the fact that a central bank is merely a cartel which has been legalized, its proponents had to lay down a thick smoke screen of technical jargon focusing always on how it would supposedly benefit commerce, the public, and the nation... there was not the slightest glimmer that underneath it all, was a master plan which was designed from top to bottom to serve private interests at the expense of the public... the system is merely a cartel with a government facade.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Government, Benefits, Jargon

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• When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

  Richard Flanagan

  Lying, Extending, Concluding

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• It will suffice thee to remember as concerning pain ... that the mind may, by stopping all manner of commerce and sympathy with the body, still retain its own tranquility.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Pain, Soul, Mind

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• The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who will stoop to do things for a million dollars that they ought not to be willing to do for less than 2 millions.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Humble, Men

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.284, Courier Corporation

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