Trade Quotes

“A fair bargain leaves both sides unhappy.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Take off your hat," the King said to the Hatter.
"It isn't mine," said the Hatter.
"Stolen!" the King exclaimed, turning to the jury, who instantly made a memorandum of the fact.
"I keep them to sell," the Hatter added as an explanation; "I've none of my own. I'm a hatter.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“Това е златното правило в търговията!... Когато някой се дави, натисни главата му дълбоко, за да имаш един конкурент по-малко...”
― Dimitar Dimov, Тютюн

“In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said "It is the trade entering his body.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

“She shrugged, looking as baffled by it as he felt. "I don't know. I wonder sometimes if people even know what love is anymore. Some days, when I'm watching my friends change lovers as unperturbedly as they change shoes, I think the world just got filled with too many people, and all our technological advances made things so easy that it cheapened our most basic, essential value somehow," she told him. "It's like spouses are commodities nowadays: disposable, constantly getting tossed back out for trade on the market and everyone's trying to trade up, up--like there is a 'trading up' in love." She rolled her eyes. "No way. That's not for me. I'm having one husband. I'm getting married once. When you know going in that you're staying for life, it makes you think harder about it, go slower, choose really well.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Spell of the Highlander

“Please, ma’am. Please help me. You seem like someone who really appreciates knowledge and learning, and I’d be so grateful if you’d share just a little of your wisdom.”
“Why should I help?” she asked. I could tell she was intrigued, though. Flattery really could get you places. “You don’t have any superior knowledge to offer me.”
“Because I’m superior in other things. Help me, and I’ll . . . I’ll fix your car out front. I’ll change the tire.
That threw her off. “You’re in a skirt.”
“I’m offering you what I can. Manual labor in exchange for wisdom.”
“I don’t believe you can do it,” she said after several long moments.
I crossed my arms. “It’s an eyesore.”
“You have fifteen minutes,” she snapped.
“I only need ten.”
― richelle mead, The Fiery Heart

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

“You know the proverb, Mr. Hale, 'set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the devil' - well, some of these early manufacturers did ride to the devil in a magnificent style - crushing human bone and flesh beneath their horses' hoofs without remorse.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Where there is commerce there is peace.”
― Jeffrey Tucker

“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.”
― Ludwig von Mises

“As a basic step of self-esteem, learn to treat as the mark of a cannibal any man’s demand for your help. To demand it is to claim that your life is his property – and loathsome as such claim might be, there’s something still more loathsome: your agreement. Do you ask if it’s ever proper to help another man? No- if he claims it as his right or as a moral duty that you owe him. Yes- if such is your own desire based on your own selfish pleasure in the value of his person and his struggle. Suffering as such is not a value, only man’s fight against suffering is. If you choose to help a man who suffers, do it only on the ground of his virtues, of his fight to recover, of his rational record, or of the fact that he suffers unjustly; then your action is still trade, and his virtue is the payment for your help. But to help a man who has no virtues, to help him on the ground of his suffering as such, to accept his faults, his need, as a claim – is to accept the mortgage of a zero on your values. A man who has no virtues is a hater of existence who acts on the premise of death; to help him is to sanction his evil and to support his career of destruction. Be it only a penny you will miss or a kindly smile he has not earned, a tribute to a zero is treason to life and to all those who struggle to maintain it. It is of such pennies and smiles that the desolation of your world was made.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Truth, meanwhile, was a weapon
that even a damaged fist could still grasp and wield. It was a remarkably versatile commodity; it could be traded, or help serve an end, or produce a
profit.”
― Mark Allen Smith, The Inquisitor

“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.”
― Louisa M. Alcott

“World can run without money and currencies but not without business and trade.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Words had become overnight just little coins, insignificant and unfreighted, to be exchanged for ribbons, buttons, for an apple or an egg.”
― Jo Baker, Longbourn

“..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...”
― Jack Kerouac, Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46

“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.”
― Ludwig von Mises

“To attempt to increase the wealth of any country, either by introducing or by detaining in it an unnecessary quantity of gold and silver, is as absurd as it would be to attempt to increase the good cheer of private families by obliging them to keep an unnecessary number of kitchen utensils.”
― Adam Smith

“A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.”
― Victor Hugo

“Never Underestimate. Just as in any other negotiation, watching before acting is as important as listening before speaking. It's doubly important in China, however, where customs are time-honored and breaches of protocol not so quickly forgiven.”
― Irl M. Davis, An Entrepreneur in Asia: A Personal Journey of Global Proportions

“Buy laughter with tears, and you'll be rich forever.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds

“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.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Your money is just a condition to get my business, your professionalism is the price.”
― Amit Kalantri

“You remain a follower for life when you pay for what people do while nobody pays you for what you do. Do something impressive and become a leader!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords

“As it stands there is a very strong argument that as the book trade becomes increasingly corporate it's our literary heritage that is at risk - a vital part of our culture.”
― Sara Sheridan

“As the several items can be exchanged, they must be equal; but in what terms? Not in pounds, yards, or hours; they are equal in value. Then what is wanted is a unit of value to reckon by.”
― Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine

“The early removal from school of future officers of Britain's seapower, leaving them unacquainted with the subject matter and ideas of the distant and recent past, may account for the incapacity of no military thinking in a world that devoted itself to military action. With little thought of strategy, no study of the theory of war or of planned objective, war's glorious art may have been glorious, but with individual exceptions, it was more or less mindless.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, The First Salute : View of the American Revolution

“Social ascendency, innocently disguised as high fashion, good taste or prestigious expenditure, was the same the world over.”
― John Keay

“in this Traffick they would frequently keep our goods and make no return, tell at last I was obliged to fire a Musquet ball Close past one man who had served us in this manner after which they observed a little more honisty and at length several of them came on board.”
― James Cook, Hunt For The Southern Continent