Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Money is the best rule of commerce.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

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.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

Buy cheap and sell dear.

The thing to do is to buy and sell.

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

The world of commerce is a kind of a purgatory itself.

The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.

Put two Yankees in a room together, and in an hour they will each have gained ten dollars from the other.

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

Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs and wants. It engages the mechanisms of reciprocal altruism, as the evolutionary biologists call it, as opposed to raw dominance.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Commerce is the greatest of all political interests.

The market is not an invention of capitalism …. It is an invention of civilization.

Let us sell merchandise to the Spanish and obtain from them gold and silver.

Each Country have their peculiar most suitable Productions; and likewise that different Men have Genius's adapted to Variety of different Arts and Manufactures, Therefore Commerce, or the Exchange of one Commodity or Manufacture for another, is highly convenient and beneficial to Mankind

Texas is made for trade.

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

The whole thing is, really, money makes money. That's the whole thing about capitalism. Without the capital, there is no -ism.

We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.

Profit is proof that the capitalist has given something to society that it cherishes more than the material wealth it has given to the businessman.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.