Trade Quotes

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state.

~ Carl Menger

Within a world of free trade and democracy there are no incentives for war and conquest. In such a world it is of no concern whether a nation’s sovereignty stretches over a larger or a smaller territory. Its citizens cannot derive any advantage from the annexation of a province. us territorial problems can be treated without bias and passion, it is not painful to be fair to other people’s claims for self-determination.

~ Ludwig Von Mises

Here's something I still can't get over. Amazes and thrills me every time. I'm sitting here and want a certain book. So I search, click, and then I have the book. Every time, my heart does a little leap of joy. What a beautiful world the market is making.

~ Jeffrey Tucker

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.

~ Ludwig Von Mises

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

~ Victor Hugo

Truth, meanwhile, was a weaponthat 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 aprofit.

~ Mark Allen Smith

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

It's not that we are poor because we are uneducated, unemployed nor unqualified, we just have have a buying mentality instead of a selling mentality

~ Goitsemang Mvula

I think, ladies and gentlemen, and I particularly address those of you who have a socialist outlook, that we should at least permit this socialist economy to prove its superiority. Let's allow it to show that it is advanced, that it is omnipotent, that it has defeated you, that it has overtaken you. Let us not interfere with it. Let us stop selling to it and giving it loans. If it's all that powerful, then let it stand on its own feet for ten or fifteen years. Then we will see what it looks like. I can tell you what it will look like. I am being quite serious now. When the Soviet economy will no longer be able to deal with everything, it will have to reduce its military preparations. It will have to abandon the useless space effort and it will have to feed and clothe its own people. And the system will be forced to relax. Thus, all I ask of you is that as long as this Soviet economy is so proud, so flourishing, and yours is so rotten and so moribund—stop helping it. When has a cripple ever helped along an athlete?

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.

~ C.j. Cherryh

War is the trade of Kings.

~ John Dryden

Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.

~ Nelson A. Miles

I'm cool with my body, I love my body. I wouldn't trade it for no other body.

~ Marshawn Lynch

Trade is a communication of cultures and values.

~ Jack Ma

I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

~ Nikki Cox

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

~ Adam Smith

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

~ Charles De Montesquieu

My trade and art is to live.

~ Michel De Montaigne