Commerce Quotes - Page 25

• Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world. Into a nest of lovers' beds, baby cribs, meal tables, all the solid commerce of life in this earth, and feel apart, enclosed in a wall of glass.

  Sylvia Plath

  Baby, Stars, Wall

  Sylvia Plath (2000). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962”, Anchor

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• Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government. The White House, the Congress and, increasingly, the judiciary, reflect their interests. We appear to have a government run by remote control from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and the American Petroleum Institute. To hell with everyone else.

  Bill Moyers

  Running, Government, White

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• There's this Tea Party wing, the Republican Party with the Chamber of commerce folks and all of those other people. They are not anti-immigration, by the way.

  Julie Roginsky

  Party, Wings, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• This is one way that wealthy Americans could really contribute. They could put hundreds of millions of dollars into the infrastructure bank, be a good investment for them, for their children, for their grandchildren, and they would directly contribute to revitalizing a big sector of middle-class wages in America and making our country more productive, so that we could create more opportunity. But I think that we could get a lot of grassroots support from, like, local chambers of commerce and other things if they understood exactly how this infrastructure bank would work.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Children, Opportunity

  "Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P. Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

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• What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hands, Bravery, Jupiter

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.77, Graphic Arts Books

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• Surely if each one saw another's heart, There would be no commerce, No sale or bargain pass: all would disperse And live apart.

  George Herbert

  Heart, Would Be, Saws

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.131

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• If Broadway was a river running from the top of Manhattan down to the Battery, undulating with traffic and commerce and lights, then the east-west streets were eddies where, leaf-like, one could turn slow circles from the beginning to the ever shall be, world without end.

  Amor Towles

  Running, Light, Circles

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.84, Penguin

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• I dream of a Digital India where e-Commerce drives Entrepreneurship.

  Narendra Modi

  Dream, Technology, Digital India

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• Passion is passion. It's a sort of madness and possession of what you do or what you think. This is the difference of life: passion and commerce, which most of the people know as "P.C." But people have just got "C" now instead of "P."

  Manolo Blahnik

  Passion, Thinking, Differences

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I worry more about the marketing that's taken hold since the 70s. The Jazz era, the Swing era, those were huge. Entire decades were named for music. In the 1940s - after World War II - changes in taxation, ballrooms closing, people moving to the suburbs, and the onset of target marketing and the confusion of commerce with art caused some things to happen as a result that have taken us away from jazz and what jazz offers us.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Art, War, Moving

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• From my experience let me say this: in today's world it is no bad thing for a politician to have had the benefit of a scientific background. And not only politicians. Those who work in industry, in commerce, in investment. Indeed, so important has it become that I believe we are right to make science a compulsory subject for all schoolchildren.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Important, Benefits

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• ...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

  Charles Fourier

  Soldier, Firsts, Etc

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• The spirit of commerce is frugality, economy, moderation, labor, ponderance, tranquillity, order, and rule. So long as this spirit subsides, the riches it produces have no bad effect. The mischief is when excessive wealth destroys the spirit of commerce, then it is that the conveniences of inequality... are felt.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Order, Long, Riches

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• Foreign culture is as necessary to the spirit of a nation as is foreign commerce to its industries.

  Ameen Rihani

  Culture, Spirit, Industry

  Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.183, Syracuse University Press

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• E-Commerce is happening the way all the hype said it would. Internet deployment is happening. Broadband is happening. Everything we ever said about the Internet is happening. And it is very, very early. We can't even glimpse it's potential in changing the way people work and live.

  Andy Grove

  Hype, People, Deployment

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• The view... from my apartment... was the World Trade Center... and now it's gone, they attacked it. This symbol of American ingenuity, and strength, and labor, and imagination and commerce, and it is gone. But you know what? You know what the view is now? The Statue of Liberty. The view from the South of Manhattan is now the Statue of Liberty. You can't beat that!

  Jon Stewart

  Views, Imagination, Liberty

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• For any business, large or small, not to have an e-commerce strategy is a big mistake.

  William M. Daley

  Mistake, Strategy, Bigs

  "5 E-commerce Strategies to Increase Sales" by Sujan Patel, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 9, 2017.

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• We're living in what used to be Mexico, and there's this very fluid border feeling. You go a little bit south of Tijuana, for instance, into Ensenada, and it still seems kind of borderlike. And you go much farther, suddenly the prices are lower, the prostitution is different, the commerce is different, everything feels more "Mexican."

  William T. Vollmann

  Mexican, Feelings, Different

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Social enables word of mouth at an unprecedented scale. Its most powerful effect, through reviews and recommendations, is to put product quality and value for money as the key to success in commerce. Social brings a level of transparency that prevents marketers from advertising their way to success without underlying product quality.

  Roelof Botha

  Powerful, Keys, Quality

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• I'm excited to have the opportunity to lead one of the true e-commerce innovators.

  Frank N. Newman

  Opportunity, Excited, Innovators

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• Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Enemy, Truth Is, Thrive

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4093, Library of Alexandria

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• My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give what encouragement I can to the young musicians of America. I...hope that just as this nation has already surpassed so many others in marvelous inventions and feats of engineering and commerce, and has made an honorable place for itself in literature in one short century, so it must assert itself on the...art of music...To bring about this result, we must trust the very youthful enthusiasm and patriotism of this country.

  Antonin Dvorak

  Country, Teacher, Encouragement

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• Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die.

  Herbert Hoover

  Freedom, Speech, Doe

  Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.162, Stanford University Press

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• Ultimately, however, as the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter pointed out, a powerful bureaucratic class is in the same relation to commerce as was the scorpion in Aesop to the dog on whose back he crossed the river. They will destroy commerce and establish socialism, even if it kills them, because that is their nature.

  John Derbyshire

  Dog, Powerful, Class

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• All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time.

  Edward Albee

  Art, Thinking, People

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