Commerce Quotes - Page 4

• I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.

  Jack Kemp

  Thinking, Expansion, Internet

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• Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Stars, Ocean

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961

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• Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Birthday, Ideas, Age

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• And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.

  Talib Kweli

  Art, Together, Too Much

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• I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Art, Wish, Crowds

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• British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Self, Ideas

  "Are the British really the worst-dressed tourists?" by Angela Balakrishnan, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2007.

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• There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas.

  Lawrence Eagleburger

  Education, Community, Marketing

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• In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.

  George Canning

  Offering, Littles, Dutch

  Dispatch, in cipher, to the English Ambassador at the Hague, 31 January 1826, in Sir Harry Poland 'Mr Canning's Rhyming 'Dispatch' to Sir Charles Bagot' (1905)

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• The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Workout, Children

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.130, Hackett Publishing

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• The commerce of India does not grow, nor does that of Portugal, or of Turkey; that but that of the protected countries does increase, as has been shown in the case of Spain, and can now be shown in that of Germany.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Country, Turkeys, India

  Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.392

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• But I am committed to keeping this city a strong and viable center for commerce and industry, for continuing to make it a place of opportunity for its citizens.

  Jane Byrne

  Strong, Opportunity, Cities

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• Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.

  Robert Toombs

  Power, Different, Regulation

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.4

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• Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music.

  Ruben Blades

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• Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.

  Leland Stanford

  School, Law, Institutions

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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• Mr. Dingell is just plain Mr. Dingell. And when he gets to be chairman of the Commerce Committee, he doesn't let it go to his head. However, he thinks he would be a very, very good chairman.

  John Dingell

  Thinking, Let It Go, Would Be

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• Saigon is hot, full of atmosphere, activity, and commerce.

  Brendan Fraser

  Atmosphere, Hot, Saigon

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.

  Halle Berry

  Today, Industry

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• We are determined that our nation shall cease to be a burden on other countries but shall contribute positively to world prosperity, while observing fully the fair trade practices in international commerce.

  Shigeru Yoshida

  Country, Practice, World

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• The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.

  Richard Cobden

  Freedom, Office, Progress

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.228

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• Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

  Gregory Bateson

  Art, Sleep, Warfare

  "Mind and Nature, a necessary unity". Book by Gregory Bateson, 1988.

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• Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Competition, Atheism, Moral

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree”, p.96

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• Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Friendship, Real

  'The Good-Natured Man' (1768) act 1

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• Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.

  Michael Oxley

  Leadership, Aquariums, Age

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• To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare program, their cost would be well within the resources available to many large private organizations.

  Herman Kahn

  Organization, Peaceful, Use

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• If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion.

  Robert Walpole

  Army, Liberty, Awakening

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