Trade Quotes

The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

Sir Winston Churchill

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

Calvin Coolidge

Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.

Winston Churchill

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

Albert Camus

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens.

Thomas Jefferson

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.

Thomas Jefferson

Money and not morality is the principle of commerce and commercial nations.

Thomas Jefferson

Public educators, like Soviet farmers, lack any incentive to produce results, innovate, to be efficient, to make the kinds of of difficult changes that private firms operating in a competitive market must make to survive.

Carolyn Lochhead

Fascism recognises the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade-unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which diverent interests are coordinated and harmonised in the unity of the State.

Benito Mussolini

The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults.

Robert Nozick

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

Thomas Paine

When you buy Fairtrade products you can guarantee that the farmers who have worked hard to grow them get a minimum price. Fairtrade is a way of giving regular support and enjoying delicious high quality foods at the same time.

Emma Thompson

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

Charles de Montesquieu

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

John Ruskin

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.

Ayn Rand
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