Commerce Quotes - Page 2

• More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Nonsense, Treaties

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4147, Delphi Classics

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• In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Mean, Simple

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act, June 16, 1933.

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• It is very certain that [the commerce clause] grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing, and was intended as a negative and preventive provision against injustice among the States themselves, rather than as a power to be used for the positive purposes of the General Government.

  James Madison

  Government, Abuse, Negative

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• Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.

  Garrett Hardin

  Impact, Political, Environmental

  Garrett James Hardin (1982). “Naked emperors: essays of a taboo-stalker”, Course Technology Ptr

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• Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.

  James A. Garfield

  Country, Money, Powerful

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• In addition, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act provides protection for those in the firearms industry from lawsuits arising out of the criminal or unlawful acts of people who misuse their products.

  Bob Ney

  People, Arms, Criminals

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• The real genius to make a marketplace flourish doesn't come from the government. It comes from the individual genius of its people.

  Jim Rohn

  Real, Government, People

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 01, 2012

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• Create content that teaches. You can’t give up. You need to be consistently awesome.

  Neil Patel

  Giving Up, Needs, Ecommerce

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• Nature seems to have taken a particular care to disseminate her blessings among the different regions of the world, with an eye to their mutual intercourse and traffic among mankind, that the nations of the several parts of the globe might have a kind of dependence upon one another and be united together by their common interest.

  Joseph Addison

  Taken, Eye, Blessing

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 1-314”, p.114

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• Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.

  James A. Garfield

  Brotherhood, Links, Common

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 2”, p.561, Best Books on

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• Goods are displayed by thousands of shopkeepers with a sense of beauty that finds no other outlet.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Outlets, Shopkeepers, Goods

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.58, BookBaby

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• As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

  Stephen Bayley

  Art, Communication, Technology

  Stephen Bayley (2000). “General Knowledge”, Booth-Clibborn

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• An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Business, Men, Pockets

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 24

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• Those wishing to be successful in the market can't ignore the boomer numbers, the wealth and spending power they have.

  Pat Conroy

  Successful, Numbers, Wish

  "Flower Power in Ad Land". www.nytimes.com. April 11, 2006.

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• The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Strong, Business, World

  Henry Ward Beecher (1863). “Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times”, p.422

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• The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Majority, Fiction, Categorizing

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• Our currency is what we are able to make.

  Robert Genn

  Able, Currency, E Commerce

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• Success is what sells.

  Andy Warhol

  Sells

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• I'm not opposed to commerce, even though I'm an artist.

  Tracey Emin

  Artist

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• School is such an encouraging and safe environment. It's filled with idealism and just really working on your craft. When you enter the business world - where art meets commerce - it can become quite depressing.

  Troy Garity

  Depressing, Art, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

  Cornel West

  Buying, Pleasure, Selling

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.

  Irving Stone

  Beautiful, Real, Artist

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• In e-commerce, your prices have to be better because the consumer has to take a leap of faith in your product.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Leap Of Faith, Ecommerce, Consumers

  "Why Ashton Kutcher Believes You Need to Own Quality T-Shirts". Interview With Corbin Chamberlin, www.elle.com. April 1, 2013.

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• Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint.

  Frank Capra

  Helping, Paint, Delusion

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Agriculture, Wealth, Prosperity

  Alexander Hamilton (1851). “The works of Alexander Hamilton: comprising his correspondence, and his political and official writings, exclusive of the federalist, civil and military”, p.237

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