Quotes about Commerce

vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry.

It is possible that a nation my be the carrier for the world, but she cannot be the merchant. She cannot be the seller and buyer of her own merchandise. The ability to buy must reside out of herself; and therefore, the prosperity of any commercial nation is regulated by the prosperity of the rest. If they are poor she cannot be rich, and her condition, be what it may, is an index of the height of the commercial tide in other nations.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Speculation into thing already produced that is not business

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.

Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.

If New York has just become a mall for the world, then what's the difference between being here and somewhere else?

A people.. who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything

Without ships, we cannot live.