Trade Quotes

“I know what I have given you...
I do not know what you have received.”
― Antonio Porchia

“I trade in information, Geels, the things men do when they think no one is looking. Shame holds more value than coin ever can.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Ships are my arrows, the sea my bow, the world my target.”
― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

“A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.”
― Frederick Douglass, The Portable Frederick Douglass

“The truth is, one who seeks to achieve freedom by petitioning those in power to give it to him has already failed, regardless of the response.
To beg for the blessing of “authority” is to accept that the choice is the master’s alone to make, which means that the person is already, by definition, a slave.”
― Larken Rose

“Every man lives by exchanging.”
― Adam Smith

“Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“You mean that this is a matter of patriotism and traders aren't patriotic?"
"Notoriously not. Pioneers never are.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.”
― Holly Black, Valiant

“Property taxes' rank right up there with 'income taxes' in terms of immorality and destructiveness. Where 'income taxes' are simply slavery using different words, 'property taxes' are just a Mafia turf racket using different words. For the former, if you earn a living on the gang's turf, they extort you. For the latter, if you own property in their territory, they extort you. The fact that most people still imagine both to be legitimate and acceptable shows just how powerful authoritarian indoctrination is. Meanwhile, even a brief objective examination of the concepts should make anyone see the lunacy of it. 'Wait, so every time I produce anything or trade with anyone, I have to give a cut to the local crime lord??' 'Wait, so I have to keep paying every year, for the privilege of keeping the property I already finished paying for??' And not only do most people not make such obvious observations, but if they hear someone else pointing out such things, the well-trained Stockholm Syndrome slaves usually make arguments condoning their own victimization. Thus is the power of the mind control that comes from repeated exposure to BS political mythology and propaganda.”
― Larken Rose

“Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.”
― Gustave de Molinari

“Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“Your shadow is bought and paid for, and your death will not remit that payment. You can go shadowless into the shadowless world, and your death will only be one last dark thing on my long dark road. It will hurt me but I do not care. It is all but over.”
― Erin Bow, Plain Kate

“It was a monumental achievement that the serpentine tc'a had once upon a time gotten the knnn to understand the concept of trade: so nowadays knnn simply contacted a station, rushed onto its methane-dock and deposited whatever they liked, grabbed whatever they wanted and left. This was an improvement over their former behavior, in which they simply looted and left.”
― C.J. Cherryh, The Kif Strike Back

“Sooner or later every war of trade becomes a war of blood.”
― Eugene V. Debs

“Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.”
― C.J. Cherryh, Chanur's Legacy

“Although the modern image of the imperial city is dominated by the ruins of the Coliseum and the Forum, the economic life of ancient Rome centered on side streets filled with apartments, shops, and horrea.”
― William J. Bernstein, A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World

“It's frustrating to witness how popular Fairtrade bananas, coffee and tea have become with shoppers and supermarkets while plenty of unfair trade goes on, largely unnoticed, in our own back yard.”
― Rose Prince

“That's the positive aspect of trade I suppose. The world gets stirred up together. That's about as much as I have to say for it.”
― Isabel Hoving, The Dream Merchant

“I deal in the ideal idea, which is love. I buy, sell, and trade—and I’m willing to lose to win.”
― Jarod Kintz, There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

“Less trade is the last thing most countries need if they are to improve their economies and the standard of living of workers of a lower socio-economic status. Reducing immigration is one sure way to stymie economic growth.
And then there are the policies that this populist mantra is designed to mask: cuts to essential services like health and education to fund tax cuts for higher income workers and corporations. It's like a pickpocket who arranges a distraction while happily fleecing his victims. (p.22)”
― Chris Bowen, On Charlatans

“Still, connecting others to the world economy -voluntarily, by pressure, and even by force- constituted, in principle, their only road to sustained real growth and away from the material deprivation, stagnation, zero-sum competition, and high mortality of ‘agraria’.”
― Azar Gat, War in Human Civilization

“З важкої промисловості в місті розвиваються лише супермаркети.”
― Serhiy Zhadan, Господь симпатизує аутсайдерам. 10 книг віршів.

“Nations do not exist in isolation. Peoples have always roamed the globe in search of different opportunities. Nations principally trade to expand their consumption possibilities. In a world where we produce to consume, receiving goods and services is better in material terms than sending them elsewhere.”
― William F. Mitchell, Modern Monetary Theory: Key Insights, Leading Thinkers

“While export spending boosts national income, we consider exports to be a cost in the sense that they deprive the domestic population of the use of the
real resources that are used up in the production of the goods and services sold abroad.”
― William F. Mitchell, Modern Monetary Theory: Key Insights, Leading Thinkers

“While export spending boosts national income, we consider exports to be a cost in the sense that they deprive the domestic population of the use of the real resources that are used up in the production of the goods and services sold abroad.”
― William F. Mitchell, Modern Monetary Theory: Key Insights, Leading Thinkers

“. . . the Native American relationship with the land is very important . . . One could not any more own the land than one could own the air above the land or the rain that fell on it or the animals that lived on it. Land is so important and place is so important to tribal people that history for them is more a function of place than of time. People are associated with a particular region, the region is the centre of their world . . . consequently, that land is so intricately bound into the very soul of most tribal people that it's not something that you trade back and forth. And when they were forced to trade lands in the early part of the nineteenth century, and to give up land, in order to survive, it was a very traumatic experience for them. Another thing to remember is that most of the religious beliefs of tribal people are site-specific, and by that I mean that their cosmology, the powers in their universe, are also tied to the particular area in which they live. - David Edmunds, Professor of American History at the University of Texas”
― Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects

“If one had cigarettes, one could barter for food with the German farmers. If the Latvian did not speak German, then the exchange was primitive and went something like this: "Ich Zigarette, du Schwein." ("Me - cigarette, you - pig") The farmer understood, and the DP returned to camp with a hunk of smoked bacon.”
― Maruta Lietins Ray, Refugee Girl: A Memoir