John Ruskin Quotes

Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.

He that looseth is Marchant as well as he that gaines.

Money is the best rule of commerce.

I'm in a unique position - I can do what I want.

The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.

In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

The Merchants of Carolina, are fair, frank Traders.

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

There are always choices in politics.

Money is not, properly speaking, one of the subjects of commerce; but only the instrument which men have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another

The inland trade is almost perfectly free. This freedom of interior commerce. .. is perhaps one of the principal causes of the prosperity of Great Britain.

The exchanges of commerce demand stated, reliable, and rapid means of communication.

We Americans have always believed in freedom of opportunity, and equality of opportunity remains one of the principal objectives of our national life. What we believe in for individuals, we believe in also for nations. We are opposed to restrictions, whether by public act or private arrangement, which distort and impair commerce, transit and trade. We have house cleaning of our own to do in this regard. But it is our hope, not only in the interest of our own prosperity but in the interest of the prosperity of the world, that trade and commerce and access to materials and markets may be freer after this war than ever before in the history of the world.

I'm a firm believer in the circle of commerce.

Commerce is a core component of pretty much any successful society.

There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

One way we could describe the struggle of life would be to say it is a battle between agency and addiction. Agency is our power to choose, and addiction is what happens when we have lost that power and we are controlled by something else.

It's my body, and it should be my choice, and the fact that it is not my choice is absolutely disgusting.

I have acquired a deep and abiding respect for all those engaged in the difficult business of commerce.

It's very important for folks to understand that when there's more trade, there's more commerce.

Trade is a social act.