Andrew Mason Quotes
Globally local commerce is a $12 to $14 trillion market. If we get 10 percent of that, we'll be very happy.
Mason, Andrew. Interview. Bloomberg, Bloomberg L.P., 2011.
The president was explaining the importance of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) which his administration had successfully negotiated with most Pacific Nations but had run into significant opposition in the United States, where trade pacts in general were being blamed by many Americans—–including politicians—–for the low wages and not enough jobs for many middle and lower class workers who did not experience quality education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics or a few other areas that www in great demand.
He was commenting on the many Western businessmen who lost money in unwise Chinese investments at the end of the 20th Century and the early 21st.
In the 1980's there were many calls for sanctions against South Africa and its policy of apartheid. These calls were loudest by the black African states including President Kenneth Kuanda of Zambia. However, the nationally owned Zambia Airways established special service from South Africa to other parts of the world when many other nations cut off air service to and from South Africa:
He had introduced a bill to provision a military garrison at the mouth of the Columbia River on the West Coast and protect and develop trade with China and India. President Monroe was for it and he persuaded the House to vote for it, but the bill to encourage foreign free trade with the Orient died in the Senate. Floyd was another American ahead of his time. . Floyd was very modern in his economic views, so much so that he, even as a Southern politician, opposed slavery on the grounds that it was economically inefficient and the South would never develop industrially if it had no incentive, as existed in the North and England, to reduce the amount of labor required for economic opportunity. He was right on that point as well.
“Laid up” means “saved”. “Commutable”means fungible—gold and silver can buy anything else.
Shaw carefully reported on the customs, laws, and traditions of foreign trade with China. He counted 43 European ships that landed in Canton in 1887 full of goods to trade and left full as well.
This quotation is interesting as it shows that and the end of the 19th century, although the United States was over 100 years old, we were first beginning to be major world traders. Not that our merchant marine was not yet world class. Another interesting facet of the quote is that the President was claiming that foreign trade was good for the domestic economy. Much of America in its first 100 years supported protectionism for American manufacturers.
He was advocating a relationship with the American Revolutionaries and some skeptics were concerned about what would maintain the relationship over time.
The Chinese Emperor Qianlong would not allow entry to Chinese ports by Western (Christian) traders {641621}. The nation was already somewhat unstable {641623}, and it might not take much to topple it.
Andrew D. Mason (born 1981) is an American businessman and entrepreneur. He is the founder and former CEO of Groupon, a Chicago-based website offering users discounts on local businesses and scholarships. He is also the founder and CEO of Descript, an audio editing tool for podcasters.
