Commerce Quotes - Page 18

• Commerce has made all winds her mistress.

  John Sterling

  Wind, Mistress, Made

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• 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!

  Thomas Paine

  Two, Numbers, Individual

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.169, Ravenio Books

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• I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same freedom as their own houses; and I would do it without a homily or graciousness or favor, for tyranny itself is to me a word less odious than toleration.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, House, Mind

  Walter Savage Landor (1876). “Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen”, p.90

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• William Carey chides his countrymen for deciding it would be impossible for the Gospel to travel over great distances and to penetrate varied cultures when they are willing to face the same trials for the sake of commerce.

  William Carey

  Distance, Would Be, Culture

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• When we make our art a practice, when we make our workspace sacred and enter it daily with respect and high intention, then we elevate our actions (even if they're taking place within the profane arena of commerce) beyond ego and above gimme-gimme ambition.

  Steven Pressfield

  Art, Ambition, Practice

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• In my teens I was interested in photography. Then I decided that I should learn something about the world of commerce. And I came to America at age 17 to escape Europe. I went to NYU - nothing better than being 17 years old and coming to New York.

  Nicolas Berggruen

  Photography, New York, Years

  "The New World of Nicolas Berggruen". Interview with Richard Bradley, www.worth.com. October 21, 2012.

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• For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,
  Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;
  Saw the heavens fill with commerce, Argosies of magic sails,
  Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;
  Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew,
  From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue.

  Alfred the Great

  Rain, Twilight, Eye

  "Locksley Hall" l. 123 (1842)

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• Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities; and it is still closer to politics, which in turn may be considered as a kind of commerce on a larger scale.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Art, War, May

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.149, Princeton University Press

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• New York [cannot] remain the center of commerce and capital for this continent, unless it has an independent bar and an honest judiciary.

  Samuel J. Tilden

  New York, Independent, Bars

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• N.Y. Chamber of Commerce Urges Passage of Silver For War Use.

  Caryl Parker Haskins

  War, Use, Silver

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• At heart, Sussman was a theoretician. In another age, he might have been a Talmudic scholar. He had cultivated a Socratic method, zinging question after question at the reporters: Who moved over from Commerce to CRP with Stans? What about Mitchell's secretary? Why won't anybody say when Liddy went to the White House or who worked with him there? Mitchell and Stans both ran the budget committee, right? What does that tell you? Then Sussman would puff on his pipe, a satisfied grin on his face.

  Carl Bernstein

  Heart, White, House

  Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward (1999). “All the President's Men”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• By employing the intelligence of natural systems we can create industry, buildings, even regional plans that see nature and commerce not as mutually exclusive but mutually coexisting.

  Brad Pitt

  Building, Natural, Eco Friendly

  e2: The Economies of Being Environmentally Conscious, www.pbs.org. 2006.

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• Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Money, Greed, Cost

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.16, Faber & Faber

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• Commerce is the school of cheating.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Cheating, School

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• Sometimes I love the marriage of art and commerce; I love Donna Summer; I like the Rolling Stones.

  Moby

  Summer, Art, Rolling

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• An important contribution to a much-neglected but very important subject. No other author has set out to do what Davenport accomplishes, which is a systematic study of how key representatives of America's rising tide of religion attempted a theoretical understanding of, and practical response to, America's rising tide of commerce.

  Mark Noll

  America, Keys, Understanding

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• The commerce of minds was necessarily the first commerce in the world, ... since before bartering things one must barter signs, and it is necessary therefore that signs be instituted.There is no market or exchange without language. The first instrument of all commerce is language.

  Paul Valery

  Mind, World, Firsts

  "Reflections on the World Today" by Paul Valery, (p. 156), 1931.

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• Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce.

  David Chipperfield

  Interesting, Balls, Architecture

  "David Chipperfield: A master of permanence comes home" by Rowan Moore, www.theguardian.com. February 05, 2011.

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• The part of Stripe that I've always found most interesting is the idea of facilitating new commerce that wouldn't otherwise happen. Payouts is turning out to be a big part of that. These new networks are efficient, intelligent replacements for offline behemoths.

  Patrick Collison

  Intelligent, Ideas, Interesting

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• When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Massacres, Zeal

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.202, Random House

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• It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.

  Karl Marx

  Cheating, War, Franklin

  Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward Aveling, Friedrich Engels (2011). “Capital, Volume I: A Critique of Political Economy”, p.182, Courier Corporation

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• Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce.

  Karl Marx

  Doe, Capitalist, Productions

  Karl Marx (2016). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume II: The Economist”, p.486, VM eBooks

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• In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.

  Joseph Joubert

  Gold, Use, Coins

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• In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in society.

  John Ralston Saul

  Senior, Mean, Civilization

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• Women, you have all this power, I'm telling you. In business, you have something called an inferred fiduciary duty to yourself. Look at the other hugely successful women in industry, commerce, science and everywhere else and you'll see women who are feminine, beautiful but also do not rely on men for their self-empowerment.

  Gene Simmons

  Beautiful, Successful, Men

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