Trade Quotes

I was down there, and I watched our police and our firemen, down on 7-Eleven, down at the World Trade Center, right after it came down.

Words had become overnight just little coins, insignificant and unfreighted, to be exchanged for ribbons, buttons, for an apple or an egg.

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.

I know what I have given you...
I do not know what you have received.

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

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.

Only a prostitute will trade her valuables for money, so you shouldn't sell your God given ideas and talents for money, because you don't own it in any way but should be by a divine authority.

The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence and petition as in a militarist society, where the strong acquire by force, the weak by petitioning.

She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.

Where there is commerce there is peace.

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

..history is best explained dramatically, because for God's sake nobody's going to tell me that massive Homeric war so to speak, between the Achaens and the Iliums was caused merely by some economic factor concerning trade...

World can run without money and currencies but not without business and trade.

Your money is just a condition to get my business, your professionalism is the price.

Social ascendency, innocently disguised as high fashion, good taste or prestigious expenditure, was the same the world over.

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none

There is not the slightest analogy between playing games and the conduct of business within a market society. The card player wins money by outsmarting his antagonist. The businessman makes money by supplying customers with goods they want to acquire.

The valuations which result in determination of definite prices are different. Each party attaches a higher value to the good he receives than to that he gives away. The exchange ratio, the price, is not the product of equality of valuation, but on the contrary, the product of a discrepancy in valuation.

When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing.

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both