Commerce Quotes - Page 5

Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.

William E. Gladstone

Wealth, Equalizer, Nations

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

Ruben Blades

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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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It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about.

Robert Patrick

Cutting, Passionate, Littles

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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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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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Tens of thousands of South Florida jobs are dependent on the trade and commerce that our ports provide, and we have to make sure that we spend our security dollars wisely.

Kendrick Meek

Jobs, Florida, Dollars

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Technological innovation is the successful implementation (in commerce or management) of a technical idea new to the institution creating it.

Lewis M. Branscomb

Successful, Ideas, Creating

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A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

Bob Hope

Funny, Hilarious, Sarcastic

Quoted in Alan Harrington, Life in the Crystal Palace (1959).

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You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard it came to civilization through Venice which of course was once the great commercial power in the Mediterranean. However, double entry bookkeeping was a hell of an invention.

Charlie Munger

Business, Power, Civilization

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Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.

Walter Bagehot

Adventure, Banking, Caution

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Commerce changes entirely the fate and genius of nations, by communicating arts and opinions, circulating money, and introducing the materials of luxury; she first opens and polishes the mind, then corrupts and enervates both that and the body.

Thomas Gray

Fate, Genius, Nations

"The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems and Correspondence, with Memoirs of His Life and Writings".

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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Patrick Henry

Freedom, Perfect, Healthy

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Certainly the advent of technology and electronic commerce has had an immense impact on the real estate industry.

Michael Oxley

Real, Technology, Impact

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Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Oliver Goldsmith

Failure, Long, Contentment

Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature”, p.844

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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree

William Blake

Art, Business, Design

William Blake, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom (1982). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.642, Univ of California Press

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The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Confucius

Money, Business, Philosophical

"The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Gaston Bachelard

Simple, Ideas, Simplicity

"The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.

Ambrose Bierce

Money, Pockets, Kind

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.38, University of Georgia Press

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Communications is at the heart of e-commerce and community.

Meg Whitman

Communication, Heart, Community

"EBay to buy Internet telephone company Skype / $2.6 billion deal will give online auction sellers, buyers another way to communicate" by September 13, 2005, www.sfgate.com. September 13, 2005.

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The spirit of commerce... renders every man willing to live on his own property...& prevents the growth of luxury.

Baron de Montesquieu

Men, Luxury, Growth

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I fully support global commerce.

Jim Costa

Support

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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

James Madison

Hazards, Branches, May

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.288

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For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.

Hu Shih

People, Chinese, Tools

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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

Gore Vidal

Debtors, United States, Literature

Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

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