Top 100 Quotes About Trade
#1. Initial incompetence is not a reason to be dismissive of capabilities. Al Qaeda itself was incompetent when it started as a terrorist organization. And clearly it's gone from blowing themselves up to knocking down the World Trade Center.
Michael Scheuer
#2. I thought how great it would be if we could trade in Fudge for a nice cocker spaniel.
Judy Blume
#3. I was sitting in my office when someone called to tell me two light planes had collided with the World Trade Centre. I turned on my television; before long, there was this procession of people of all kinds walking up the street. What I remember most was the silence of that crowd; there was no sound.
Tom Wolfe
#4. We've already seen how it's going to come in, in a truck, like it did at Oklahoma City at the Federal building or it's going to come in by plane, like it did at the World Trade Center.
Richard Drew
#5. I go in for what is known in the trade as 'light writing' and those who do that - humorists they are sometimes called - are looked down upon by the intelligentsia and sneered at.
P.G. Wodehouse
#6. Where my tendons have been torn, my psyche has been mended. This was a worthy trade.
Chris Matakas
#7. I'm thinking about some developments say in the 80s when the anti-apartheid movement began to claim more support and strength within the US. Black trade unionists played a really important role in developing this US anti-apartheid movement.
Angela Davis
#8. Trade protection accumulates upon a single point the good which it effects, while the evil inflicted is infused throughout the mass. The one strikes the eye at a first glance, while the other becomes perceptible only to close investigation.
Frederic Bastiat
#9. I know my own father's business was very dependent on the goodwill and business and trade from people in northern Mexico. We knew their families and went to their weddings and baptisms and balls and picnics, and we had a great time with them.
Linda Ronstadt
#10. We must recognise that in an integrated world, trade cannot be divorced from other concerns. We need to promote free trade and serious global efforts with respect to common problems even as we support every nation's right to chart its own course.
Lawrence Summers
#11. Your family is unavoidable. You cannot escape them or trade them in for another family. You also can't change them ... but you can change your response to them.
Jami Attenberg
#12. Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment.
Washington Irving
#13. The Japanese, despite the trade deficit and their ability to build fabulous automobiles, still think that a guy in a monster suit is all that is needed for a monster movie.
Stephen Hunter
#14. Why trade a chance at real happiness for a misery I already knew?
A.S. King
#15. Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.
Andre Maurois
#16. Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right of those by whom that trust is delegated, and by whom it is always resumable. It has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties.
Thomas Paine
#17. Y2K hype taps our native discomfort with the realities of a dynamic, evolving social order. It elevates personal, local contact over the impersonality of the 'extended order' of trade and technological networks. It suggests that we can wipe the slate clean and start from scratch.
Virginia Postrel
#18. I have a dream that Africa should have one bloc - north to south - we could trade freely, people can move freely and that makes business sense.
Mohammed Dewji
#19. The WTO has outlived its usefulness as a setting for trade negotiations. It can still be a good place to resolve disputes (though this can take years) and share ideas, but most countries would be better off choosing their own trading partners and lowering trade barriers at their own pace.
Daniel Altman
#22. You cannot read any image of the World Trade Center without thinking of 9/11.
Colum McCann
#23. I'd trade every last one of you for a moment's peace and a dog that didn't P on the carpet
Lois Greiman
#24. It is in all our interests that the arteries of global trade are kept free, open and running.
Philip Hammond
#25. Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.
Yao Ming
#26. The first Western attempt to save Africa from itself was in the late 19th century. It was led by Christian missionaries who claimed to be seeking to end poverty, disease and the slave trade.
Andrew Mwenda
#27. In many cases, water stress is more about politics, economics, behaviour and governance than absolute water scarcity. Better planning is needed, to allocate water where societal need is greatest, and to allow trade-offs between alternative uses.
Ian Goldin
#28. I was glad to play in the Negro Leagues. I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.
Leon Day
#29. You can't even trade a single fart with the next guy. Each and every one of us has to live out his own life. Don't waste time thinking about who's most talented.
Kodo Sawaki
#30. While there have been many potential scenarios discussed, today we have only confirmed that we designed Xbox One to enable our customers to trade in and resell games at retail.
Larry Hryb
#31. I'm going to break one of the rules of the trade here. I'm going to tell you some of the secrets of improvisation. Just remember - it's always a good idea to follow the directions exactly the first time you try a recipe. But from then on, you're on your own.
James Beard
#32. For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade.
James Forrestal
#33. The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges.
Germaine Greer
#34. Growth is improving the lot of the poor in many countries, reducing poverty by half since 1981. Freer trade could accelerate progress.
Francois Bourguignon
#35. If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.
James J. Hill
#36. Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones; without them there'd be no stories.
Margaret Atwood
#37. I jetset around and play these songs and get to hang with some pretty amazing people, then I go home to a really great farm, though actually it's a disaster area of a farm at the moment. But it's certainly a blast. I wouldn't trade lives with anyone right now.
Brad Paisley
#38. In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected, the ballot is a cunning swindle benefitting only the united barons of industry, trade and property.
Daniel Guerin
#39. The assumption that individual freedoms are guaranteed by freedom of the market and of trade is a cardinal feature of neoliberal thinking, and it has long dominated the US stance towards the rest of the world.
David Harvey
#40. The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side.
Francis Parker Yockey
#41. I had to live, had no money, and therefore resorted to commercial prostitution.' Smith was introduced to the urban sex trade by a middle-aged black woman who seemed genuinely concerned for her well-being.
LaShawn Harris
#42. Japan's inexplicable lack of response to even consider a move to re-open their market to U.S. beef will sorely tempt economic trade action against Japan.
Saxby Chambliss
#43. For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.
Edward Dowden
#44. I worked very hard as a young journalist learning the trade and asking questions, understanding what a story is and being able to present that in a way that people would find interesting.
Jill Douglas
#45. I understand that love and tragedy go hand in hand, for there can't be one without the other, but nonetheless I find myself wondering whether the trade-off is fair.
Nicholas Sparks
#46. When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
Langston Hughes
#47. If only there was something to trade, someone to trade with; Cass would rip her soul from her body and hand it to the devil himself, would walk into the gates of hell with her head held high if someone could just take care of Ruthie.
Sophie Littlefield
#48. Trade has played a vital role in the social evolution of humankind. It allowed people to specialise, which raises both skill levels and efficiency. It brought people from different lands together, co-operating rather than competing over resources.
Julian Baggini
#49. There have been trade-offs every day, every month, every year. There's a lot that I missed and I do have regrets in that area. But I have been able to bring to my family the richness of being a journalist.
Judy Woodruff
#50. Reg NMS was intended to create equality of opportunity in the U.S. stock market. Instead it institutionalized a more pernicious inequality. A small class of insiders with the resources to create speed were now allowed to preview the market and trade on what they had seen.
Michael Lewis
#51. Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have a flawed trade policy that hurts all parties.
Stephen F. Lynch
#52. Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade.
Stephen F. Lynch
#53. Society thrives on trade simply because trade makes specialization possible, and specialization increases output, and increased output reduces the cost in toil for the satisfactions men live by. That being so, the market place is a most humane institution.
Frank Chodorov
#54. I want trade deals, but they have to be great for the United States and our workers. We don't make great deals anymore, but we will once I become president.
Donald Trump
#55. The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
Abhishek Bachchan
#56. Garment trade. Neighboring Bangor was largely Welsh and English, and the next town over was overwhelmingly German, which meant - given the fractious relationships between the English and Germans and
Malcolm Gladwell
#57. If you were willing to trade him away, even for an hour, then you don't deserve him. I'll keep them both to raise as my own and let that be our judgment on you for breaking and oath with us. (pg. 9)
Holly Black
#58. When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#59. Some day, following the example of men like themselves, said Mr Fraser, the Chinese too would take to Free Trade:
Amitav Ghosh
#60. When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#61. This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237)
Elizabeth Gilbert
#62. She'd trade places with Tessa. She'd always had a secret crush on Julian.
Pamela Clare
#63. Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.
Robert Toombs
#64. Shall I tell you of their plundering, their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their cheating in trade?
Saint John Chrysostom
#66. When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.
Adam Smith
#67. We were talking about really getting Europe on its feet. It was our hope that there would be a breakdown of trade barriers in Europe first, and then eventually a breakdown internationally, which would help increase trade with Europe.
W. Averell Harriman
#68. 10/20/30 Rule in my book can level the playing field for a retail forex trader to trade alongside big banks and hedge funds.
Ramesh Selvarajoo
#69. Would I want Johnny Depp's career? Sure! But do I want all the trappings and all the stuff that comes with that? I don't know. It's a pretty serious trade off. Can you prevent it? Probably not.
Jai Courtney
#70. Love is not a business. It's not a transaction. It's not an exchange or something you get for doing something it's not a trade. It's a gift!
Tony Robbins
#71. That was what we call in the trade an Unscheduled Reality Excursion, usually abbreviated to 'Oh fuck.'
Charles Stross
#72. In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing trade made medieval monarchs rich and funded the early-modern state.
Jill Lepore
#73. Index funds do not trade from security to security and, thus, they tend to avoid capital gains taxes.
Burton Malkiel
#74. What's the basis when rappers don't know the basics?
Still not takin' advice from those I wouldn't trade places with.
Skeme
#75. When you're building something, you know all of the trade-offs ...
Nolan Bushnell
#76. You're beautiful this morning," Archer said, stopping before her, kissing her nose. "You're impossibly sweet in my shirt."
That might be but she felt like death. She would gladly make the trade; how blissful it would be to feel impossibly sweet and look like death.
Kristin Cashore
#77. If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged.
Richard Price
#78. The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any where; not even on board the slave ship. Toleration of a wrong is not law.
Lysander Spooner
#79. For the most part, the only contact that most Quebecers have with the world of Islam is through these images of violence, repeated over and over: wars, riots, bombs, the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Boston marathon ... The reaction is obvious: We'll have none of that here!
Jacques Parizeau
#80. Slavery existed in the African states, and it was sometimes used by Europeans to justify their own slave trade. But, as Davidson points out, the "slaves" of Africa were more like the serfs of Europe - in other words, like most of the population of Europe.
Howard Zinn
#81. Ale for a tale. That's the fairest trade I know.
Adam Gidwitz
#82. I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient.
Bruce Lee
#83. It does so happen to be the case that if the freedom of the people of this country-and especially the rights of trade unionists-if those precious things in the past had been left to the good sense and fairmindedness of judges, we would have precious few freedoms in this country.
Michael Foot
#84. Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation - potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn't trade my life for the world.
Reynolds Price
#85. It's hard for me to believe that World Trade Center building 7 came down by itself twenty years from now, people will look at 911 the way we look at the assassination of JFK today. It couldn't possibly have been done the way the government told us.
Andrew Napolitano
#86. Building intelligent machines can teach us about our minds - about who we are - and those lessons will make our world a better place. To win that knowledge, though, our species will have to trade in another piece of its vanity.
Astro Teller
#87. Without the right tools, we can't police our markets from illegal trade.
Chris Chocola
#88. The free flow of people across borders is not to be confused with the free flow of goods across borders. Free trade is a positive-sum game. Contrary to illegal immigration, it is always invited, consensual and hence mutually beneficial to the parties involved.
Ilana Mercer
#89. Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset: the increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
Alan Greenspan
#91. Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the art of life.
Henry David Thoreau
#92. Free trade economists have to explain how free trade can be an explanation for the economic success of today's rich countries, when it simply had not been practised very much before they became rich.
Ha-Joon Chang
#94. World trade depends on differences among countries, not similarities. Different countries are in different stages of development. It is appropriate for them to have different patterns, different policies for ecology, labor standards, and so forth.
Milton Friedman
#95. All of everything came into existence simply because it wanted to be. The big bang wasn't so much a big bang as a hasty dash toward an opportunity to trade nothingness for somethingness. The main contributory factor to the entire universe was a momentary effect in need of a cause.
Jasper Fforde
#96. If we lose a couple in a row this season, it will be like the World Trade [Center] is coming down again.
Dwyane Wade
#97. I knew Mohamed Atta had something to do in this operation. I knew definitely that the White House and World Trade Centre would be hit. I knew it would happen after August. I was told it would happen at the end of the summer.
Zacarias Moussaoui
#98. The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.
Martin Filler
#99. The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.
Simon Cowell
#100. I think our trade policies, for many, many years, have been a disaster. They have benefited corporate America at the expense of working people.
Bernie Sanders
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