Trade Quotes - page 6

Anyone who criticizes me for talking about fair trade is really a few pebbles short of a beach, because everybody should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment: because we all live here. MTV, 2005. source. (Chris Martin)
The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades. View quote
Mark Twain
O Trade, O Trade! Would thou wert dead! The time needs heart - 'tis tired of head. View quote
Sidney Lanier
A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time. View quote
Arthur Koestler
Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorrèd shears, And slits the thin-spun life. View quote
John Milton
And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero. View quote
Walt Whitman
Never pursue literature as a trade. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump. View quote
Ludwig von Mises
Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To depart upon any occasion from those rules, is consequence of some flattering speculation of extraordinary gain, is almost always extremely dangerous, and frequently fatal to the banking company which attempts it. View quote
Adam Smith
The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers. View quote
Adam Smith
When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before. (Adam Smith)
To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should never be established in it. View quote
Adam Smith
When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers. View quote
Adam Smith
Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade. View quote
Adam Smith
The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade. View quote
Adam Smith
That a joint stock company should be able to carry on successfully any branch of foreign trade, when private adventurers can come into any sort of open and fair competition with them, seems contrary to all experience. View quote
Adam Smith
Open the book of universal history at what period we may, it is always the India trade which is the cause of internal industry and foreign negotiation. View quote
William Winwood Reade
And lastly, Chairman Khrushchev has compared the United States to a worn-out runner living on its past performance, and stated that the Soviet Union would out-produce the United States by 1970. Without wishing to trade hyperbole with the Chairman, I do suggest that he reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he his caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas. View quote
John F. Kennedy
How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more than an imperfect means to a novel? View quote
Randall Jarrell
If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements. View quote
Dana Rohrabacher
By outlawing Solidarity, a free trade organization to which an overwhelming majority of Polish workers and farmers belong, they have made it clear that they never had any intention of restoring one of the most elemental human rights-the right to belong to a free trade union. (Ronald Reagan)
A few months ago, I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not. View quote
Ronald Reagan
You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade? View quote
Ned Vizzini
Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
The U.S. trade embargo on Cuba is almost completely ineffective, as many other countries, including the European Union, do not honor it. View quote
Robert Zubrin