Kenneth Clarke Quotes

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.

My father was an entrepreneur - a sign maker, and he had about 20 employees - and often he'd take me to business meetings, and I would listen to him talk with his workers and customers. We would also talk a lot about business over dinner.

The Merchants of Carolina, are fair, frank Traders.

A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.

Everyone lives by selling something.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

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

There's no reason why I can't be a mogul. When I step into a room and I'm there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business, I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he's talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.

Business is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all those blowing flies that would corrupt it.

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.

A lot of people think big business in America is a bad thing. I think it's a really good thing. Most people in business are ethical, hard-working, good people. And it's a meritocracy.

To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.

Business is business, no child's play.

Business is what concerns us. If you care about something enough to do something about it, you're in business

Commerce is the agency by which the power of choice is obtained.

After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

Commerce is the greatest of all political interests.

Business rests squarely on the law of service. It has for its main reliance truth and faith and justice …. It is one of the greatest contributing forces to the moral and spiritual enhancement of the race.

More and more we must build our foreign policy around commerce.

The best way to become wealthy is through trade

The merchants of old Cairo are honest in their dealings, and if one of them is caught cheating a customer, he is mounted on a camel with a bell in his hand and paraded about the city, ringing the bell and crying out, 'I have committed a misdemeanor and am suffering reproach. Whosoever tells a lie is rewarded with public disgrace.' The grocers, druggists, and peddlers furnish sacks for everything they sell, whether glass, pottery, or papers; therefore, there is no need for shoppers to take their own bags with them

We have neglected industry and commerce just as we have neglected every other opportunity of progress.

Generations of tradition and hard work are required to form a nation of traders.

The laws of trade must be the great teacher.