Trade Quotes

I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates. (Steve Jobs)
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Might the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy be laid to heart! Might a sense of the true aims of life elevate the tone of politics and trade, till public and private honor become identical! View quote
Margaret Fuller
I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other. View quote
William Howard Taft
Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade, since it consists pricipally of dealing with men. View quote
Joseph Conrad
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade. View quote
Zhu Rongji
Free Tibet before free trade. View quote
Zhu Rongji
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice. View quote
Edmund Burke
God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners. (William Wilberforce)
The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty. View quote
William Cobbett
I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets. View quote
Mary McCarthy
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish. View quote
Samuel Gompers
The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him. View quote
Ernest Bevin
My trade and art is to live. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness. View quote
Minoru Yamasaki
Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressly for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering and contributing to the violent deaths of harmless animals. View quote
Philip Kapleau
The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
To finance this trade deficit, the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets like stocks, businesses, and real estate to the rest of the world. (Martin Feldstein)
The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit. View quote
Martin Feldstein
The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy. View quote
George W. Bush
When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them. View quote
C. J. Cherryh