Commerce Quotes

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. View quote
John Adams
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world. View quote
Edmund Burke
Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude. View quote
Emil Cioran
A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything. View quote
George Washington
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. View quote
Gaston Bachelard
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.... And when you realize the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate. (James A. Garfield)
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. View quote
James A. Garfield
Honor sinks where commerce long prevails. View quote
Walter Bagehot
Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds. View quote
William Blake
In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in society. View quote
John Ralston Saul
The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment. View quote
Alex Winter
It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact. View quote
Henry Charles Carey
The commerce of India does not grow, nor does that of Portugal, or of Turkey; that but that of the protected countries does increase, as has been shown in the case of Spain, and can now be shown in that of Germany. View quote
Henry Charles Carey
Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments. View quote
Robert Toombs
From the accession of Henry the Seventh to the breaking out of the civil wars, England enjoyed much greater exemption from war, foreign and domestic, than for a long period before, and during the controversy between the houses of York and Lancaster. These years of peace were favorable to commerce and the arts. Commerce and the arts augmented general and individual knowledge; and knowledge is the only fountain, both of the love and the principles of human liberty. View quote
Daniel Webster
In the first place, I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic - it is also a truth, that if industry and labor are left to their own course, they will generally be directed to those objects which are the most productive, and this in a more certain and direct manner than the wisdom of the most enlightened legislature could point out. (James Madison)
Art, industry, and commerce, so long crushed and overborne, were stirring into renewed life, and a crowd of adventurous men, nurtured in war and incapable of repose, must seek employment for their restless energies in fields of peaceful enterprise. View quote
Francis Parkman
Every individual, from the common mechanic, that works in wood or clay, to the prime minister that regulates with the dash of his pen the agriculture, the breeding of cattle, the mining, or the commerce of a nation, will perform his business the better, the better he understands the nature of things, and the more his understanding is enlightened. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
Every transaction in commerce is an independent transaction. View quote
David Ricardo
We all understand that the debasement of a nation's coinage is very pernicious and must prove disastrous to its commerce. How much more dangerous is the debasement of the spiritual coinage! View quote
Virchand Gandhi