Commerce Quotes - Page 6

• You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a temple 'Athene' or 'Venus;' but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Cities, Names, Liberty

  George Edward Woodberry (1914). “Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913”

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• A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.

  Richard Steele

  Sex, Men, Views

  Richard Steele (1729). “The Spectator”, p.272

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• I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it.

  Austan Goolsbee

  Data, Information, Internet

  "Goolsbee gets top W.H. econ job" by Mike Allen, www.politico.com. September 10, 2010.

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• Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.

  W. Averell Harriman

  War, Europe, Bankers

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• Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

  Richard Cobden

  Peace, War, Aristocratic

  Richard Cobden (1854). “Russia and the Eastern Question”, p.33

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• Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and roads by allowing for increases in many of the programs and agencies to help protect these important areas of commerce and travel.

  Jim Ryun

  Travel, Agency, Sky

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• My goal is to ensure the Northern Border is safe, secure and allows for the free flow of travel and commerce.

  Rick Larsen

  Travel, Goal, Borders

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• If everything that you do is for the market, it won't work.

  T. Allen Lawson

  Ifs

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• It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Different, Research, Vulnerable

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• If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people.

  John Jay Chapman

  People, Literature, World

  John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Politics”

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• Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

  Antonin Scalia

  Teaching, Learning, Character

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• Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Business, Democracy, Corporations

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1978). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Passive commerce . . . should thus . . . [compel us] to content ourselves with the first price of our commodities, and to see the profits of our trade snatched from us, to enrich our enemies and persecutors. That unequalled spirit of enterprise . . . an inexhaustible mine of national wealth, would be stifled and lost; and poverty and disgrace would overspread a country, which, with wisdom, might make herself the admiration and envy of the world.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Country, Envy, Enemy

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2008). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution”, p.68, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Business, Soul, Method

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.149

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• A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.

  John Marshall

  Business, Law, Corporations

  John Marshall (1839). “The Writings of John Marshall: Late Chief Justice of the United States, Upon the Federal Constitution”, p.197

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• During negotiations nothing is gained by attacking people's comfort zones.

  Alan Sugar

  Business, People, Comfort

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• A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.

  William Penn

  Business, Men, Quiet

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Business, Fighting, Men

  Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.188

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• When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine he is that polite all the time.

  E. W. Howe

  Business, Men, Trying

  "Country Town Sayings: A Collection of Paragraphs from the Atchison Globe". Book by Edgar Watson Howe, p. 34, 1911.

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• With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Business, Self, Emulation

  The Theory of the Leisure Class ch. 5 (1899)

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• Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment.

  Washington Irving

  Business, Reality, Romance

  Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, John Holmes Agnew, Kinahan Cornwallis, Washington Irving (1840). “The Knickerbocker: Or, New York Monthly Magazine”, p.304

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• Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Business, Profound, Competition

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• However hard we try to bring in the new; it comes into being only in the midst of clumsy deals.

  Peter Weiss

  Business, Trying, Midst

  Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.63, A&C Black

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• Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.

  Jonathan Swift

  Business, Men, Imagination

  Jonathan Swift (1761). “Works”, p.301

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• Market leaders inevitably slip into decline when they tell the people what they want instead of giving the people what they want.

  Alan Sugar

  Business, Market Leaders, People

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