# Quotes about trade - Quotes: 14 - Authors: 11 - Broader topic: [Quotes about money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md) - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trade - JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trade.json ## Quotes > When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined. [Barbara W. Tuchman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/barbara-w-tuchman.md) · [A Distant Mirror](https://www.leafyquotes.com/barbara-w-tuchman/a-distant-mirror.md) · p. 202 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/barbara-w-tuchman/a-distant-mirror/when-commerce-with.md) Topics: [fanaticism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fanaticism.md), [trade](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trade.md) > Here's the rule for bargains — 'Do other men, for they would do you.' That's the true business precept. All others are counterfeits. [Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md) · [Martin Chuzzlewit](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/martin-chuzzlewit.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/martin-chuzzlewit/heres-the-rule.md) Topics: [deception](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/deception.md), [trade](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trade.md) > The Mafia is not an outsider in this world; it is perfectly at home. Indeed, in the integrated spectacle it stands as the model of all advanced commercial enterprises. [Guy Debord](https://www.leafyquotes.com/guy-debord.md) · [Comments on the Society of the Spectacle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/guy-debord/comments-on-the-society-of-the-spectacle.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/guy-debord/comments-on-the-society-of-the-spectacle/the-mafia-is-not.md) Topics: [crime](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/crime-2.md), [trade](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trade.md) > In trade, it is an almost infallible natural law that a hungry low-end market, an eager dumping ground for the shoddiest work, is an irresistible market force. [Mark Kurlansky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-kurlansky.md) · [Cod](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-kurlansky/cod.md) · p. 81 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-kurlansky/cod/in-trade-it.md) Topics: [trade](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trade.md) > What strip-mining is to nature, the art market has become to culture. [Robert Hughes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-hughes.md) · [Nothing If Not Critical](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-hughes/nothing-if-not-critical.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-hughes/nothing-if-not-critical/what-strip-mining-is-to-nature.md) Topics: [art](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/art.md), [trade](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trade.md) > I am learning my business. Literature nowadays is a trade. Putting aside men of genius, who may succeed by mere cosmic force, your successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets; when one kind of goods begins to go off slackly, he is ready with something new and appetising. He knows perfectly all the possible sources of income. Whatever he has to sell he'll get payment for it from all sorts of various quarters; none of your unpractical selling for a lump sum to a middleman who will make six distinct profits. [George Gissing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-gissing.md) · [New Grub Street](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-gissing/new-grub-street.md) · p. 8 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-gissing/new-grub-street/i-am-learning.md) Topics: [literature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/literature.md), [trade](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trade.md) > The job of the Western trade negotiators is to get a better trade deal for their country's interests—for example, gaining more market access and stronger intellectual property rights—without giving up agriculture subsidies or nontariff trade barriers. Fairness is not in the lexicon of these trade negotiators. [Joseph E. Stiglitz](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-e-stiglitz.md) · [Making Globalization Work](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-e-stiglitz/making-globalization-work.md) · p. 131 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-e-stiglitz/making-globalization-work/the-job-of-the.md) Topics: [justice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice.md), [trade](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trade.md) > In part, free trade has not worked because we have not tried it: trade agreements of the past have been neither free nor fair. They have been asymmetric, opening up markets in the developing countries to goods from the advanced industrial countries without full reciprocation. [Joseph E. Stiglitz](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-e-stiglitz.md) · [Making Globalization Work](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-e-stiglitz/making-globalization-work.md) · p. 62 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-e-stiglitz/making-globalization-work/in-part-free.md) Topics: [trade](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trade.md) > The United States and Europe have perfected the art of arguing for free trade while simultaneously working for trade agreements that protect themselves against imports from developing countries. [...] Western negotiators almost take it for granted that they can control what gets discussed, and determine the outcomes. [Joseph E. Stiglitz](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-e-stiglitz.md) · [Making Globalization Work](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-e-stiglitz/making-globalization-work.md) · p. 78 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-e-stiglitz/making-globalization-work/the-united-states.md) Topics: [hypocrisy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hypocrisy.md), [trade](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trade.md) > The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client [William S. Burroughs](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-s-burroughs.md) · [Naked Lunch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-s-burroughs/naked-lunch.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-s-burroughs/naked-lunch/the-junk-merchant.md) Topics: [drugs](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/drugs.md), [trade](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trade.md) > What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. When did you last hear of a clerk giving his life for the company? Perhaps your deficiency rests in the false assumption that you can order men to think and cooperate. This has been a failure of everything from religions to general staffs throughout history. General staffs have a long record of destroying their own nations. As to religions, I recommend a rereading of Thomas Aquinas. As to you of CHOAM, what nonsense you believe! Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness — they cannot work and their civilization collapses. [Frank Herbert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert.md) · [Children Of Dune](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/children-of-dune.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/children-of-dune/what-you-of-the.md) Topics: [civilization](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/civilization.md), [loyalty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loyalty.md), [trade](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trade.md) > “’An offer is only as good as the real thing it buys.’” [Frank Herbert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert.md) · [Dune Messiah](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune-messiah.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune-messiah/an-offer-is-only.md) Topics: [trade](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trade.md) > Commerce is naturally adverse to all the violent passions; it loves to temporize, takes delight in compromise, and studiously avoids irritation. It is patient, insinuating, flexible, and never has recourse to extreme measures until obliged by the most absolute necessity. Commerce renders men independent of each other, gives them a lofty notion of their personal importance, leads them to seek to conduct their own affairs, and teaches how to conduct them well; it therefore prepares men for freedom, but preserves them from revolutions. [Alexis de Tocqueville](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville.md) · [Democracy in America](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville/democracy-in-america.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville/democracy-in-america/commerce-is-naturally.md) Topics: [freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom.md), [trade](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trade.md) > Commerce and the arts which blend and mingle the nations at the same time prevent them from studying each other. If they know how to make a profit out of their neighbours, what more do they need to know? [Jean Jacques Rousseau](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau.md) · [Emile; or On Education](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/commerce-and-the.md) Topics: [culture](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/culture.md), [trade](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trade.md)