Quotes about trade
Ludwig von Mises -
Within a world of free trade and democracy there are no incentives for war and conquest. In such a world it is of no concern whether a nation’s sovereignty stretches over a larger or a smaller territory. Its citizens cannot derive any advantage from the annexation of a province. us territorial problems can be treated without bias and passion it is not painful to be fair to other people’s claims for self-determination.
Michel de Montaigne -
My trade and art is to live.
Michael Bassey Johnson - Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds
Buy laughter with tears, and you'll be rich forever.
Adam Smith -
To attempt to increase the wealth of any country, either by introducing or by detaining in it an unnecessary quantity of gold and silver, is as absurd as it would be to attempt to increase the good cheer of private families by obliging them to keep an unnecessary number of kitchen utensils.
Auliq-Ice -
Entrepreneurship is all about making life easier for humanity, while money becomes a bye-product.
Isabel Hoving - The Dream Merchant
That's the positive aspect of trade I suppose. The world gets stirred up together. That's about as much as I have to say for it.
Ramesh Selvarajoo - Trade Forex with Confidence: The 10/20/30 Rule for Unconventional Success
10/20/30 Rule in my book can level the playing field for a retail forex trader to trade alongside big banks and hedge funds.
Irl M. Davis - An Entrepreneur in Asia: A Personal Journey of Global Proportions
Never Underestimate. Just as in any other negotiation, watching before acting is as important as listening before speaking. It's doubly important in China, however, where customs are time-honored and breaches of protocol not so quickly forgiven.
Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
As a basic step of self-esteem, learn to treat as the mark of a cannibal any man’s demand for your help. To demand it is to claim that your life is his property – and loathsome as such claim might be, there’s something still more loathsome: your agreement. Do you ask if it’s ever proper to help another man? No- if he claims it as his right or as a moral duty that you owe him. Yes- if such is your own desire based on your own selfish pleasure in the value of his person and his struggle. Suffering
Karen Marie Moning - Spell of the Highlander
She shrugged, looking as baffled by it as he felt. "I don't know. I wonder sometimes if people even know what love is anymore. Some days, when I'm watching my friends change lovers as unperturbedly as they change shoes, I think the world just got filled with too many people, and all our technological advances made things so easy that it cheapened our most basic, essential value somehow," she told him. "It's like spouses are commodities nowadays: disposable, constantly getting tossed back out for
H.W. Brands -
He has not shown the special interest in reading that we should like to see but he likes shop work. George H. W. Bush's parents on his Andover application
Victor Hugo -
A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.
Larry Niven - Lucifer's Hammer
The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim
Isabel Paterson - God of the Machine
As the several items can be exchanged, they must be equal; but in what terms? Not in pounds, yards, or hours; they are equal in value. Then what is wanted is a unit of value to reckon by.
Rose Prince -
It's frustrating to witness how popular Fairtrade bananas, coffee and tea have become with shoppers and supermarkets while plenty of unfair trade goes on, largely unnoticed, in our own back yard.
Sara Sheridan -
As it stands there is a very strong argument that as the book trade becomes increasingly corporate it's our literary heritage that is at risk - a vital part of our culture.
Goitsemang Mvula -
It's not that we are poor because we are uneducated, unemployed nor unqualified, we just have have a buying mentality instead of a selling mentality
Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South
You know the proverb, Mr. Hale, 'set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the devil' - well, some of these early manufacturers did ride to the devil in a magnificent style - crushing human bone and flesh beneath their horses' hoofs without remorse.
Annie Dillard - The Writing Life
In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said "It is the trade entering his body.
Mark Allen Smith - The Inquisitor
Truth, meanwhile, was a weaponthat even a damaged fist could still grasp and wield. It was a remarkably versatile commodity; it could be traded, or help serve an end, or produce aprofit.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Warning to the West
I think, ladies and gentlemen, and I particularly address those of you who have a socialist outlook, that we should at least permit this socialist economy to prove its superiority. Let's allow it to show that it is advanced, that it is omnipotent, that it has defeated you, that it has overtaken you. Let us not interfere with it. Let us stop selling to it and giving it loans. If it's all that powerful, then let it stand on its own feet for ten or fifteen years. Then we will see what it looks like
Nikki Cox -
I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.
Jack Ma -
Trade is a communication of cultures and values.
Marshawn Lynch -
I'm cool with my body, I love my body. I wouldn't trade it for no other body.
John Dryden -
War is the trade of Kings.
Nelson A. Miles -
Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.
C.J. Cherryh - Chanur's Legacy
Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
Benjamin Franklin -
People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both
Adam Smith -
I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
Cornelius Vanderbilt -
There is no friendship in trade.
Charles de Montesquieu -
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
Holly Black - Valiant
She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.
Robert Wesley Miller -
ITS nomimal without all on transfer of regard, that weight of a measure of lines cannot be equal in comparison. The want of privacy is a need of personality not character. Only through devotional love not modernity can you coolect the past, present and future. Timeless is not what you think or hear. Patience is not any big reveal. Never see make how all free?
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
Without a doubt, the most ingenious plan I could ever hope to devise would be to trade my plans for God’s.
Louisa May Alcott -
Mother Atkinson thought that every one should have a trade, or something to make a living out of , for rich people may grow poor, you know, and poor people have to work.... so when I saw how happy and independent those young ladies were, I wanted to have a trade, and then it wouldn't matter about money, though I like to have it well enough.
John Keay -
Social ascendency, innocently disguised as high fashion, good taste or prestigious expenditure, was the same the world over.
Antonio Porchia -
I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received.
Oscar Bimpong -
Value is what you trade to get money. The more valuable you are the more money you attract.
Robert Thier - Storm and Silence
Ships are my arrows, the sea my bow, the world my target.
Jo Baker - Longbourn
Words had become overnight just little coins, insignificant and unfreighted, to be exchanged for ribbons, buttons, for an apple or an egg.
Sunday Adelaja -
To work (at a job) is to sacrifice the life you have at the moment
Sunday Adelaja -
For every day spent at a job, you empty your life
Sunday Adelaja -
Employment bargains your life and time for a piece of currency
Sunday Adelaja -
Giving a piece of your life daily through employment makes you empty
Sunday Adelaja -
Losing your job releases you from the contract of giving a piece of your life daily
Eugene V. Debs -
Sooner or later every war of trade becomes a war of blood.
Thomas Jefferson -
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none
James Clavell - Tai-Pan
Without trade the world will become what it was once—a hell where only the strongest arm and the heaviest lash was law. The meek will never inherit the earth. Aye, but at least they can be protected by law to live out their lives as they wish.
Erin Bow - Plain Kate
Your shadow is bought and paid for, and your death will not remit that payment. You can go shadowless into the shadowless world, and your death will only be one last dark thing on my long dark road. It will hurt me but I do not care. It is all but over.