Benjamin Harrison Quotes

A communication highway without content is inconceivable.

Texas is made for trade.

Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.

Africa needs roads. Roads bring know-how and fertilizer to farmers and ideas and business for commerce.

Roads are the blood vessels of the economy.

The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.

Everyone lives by selling something.

Money is the best rule of commerce.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

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

Serbia is open for business.

Although a Kingdom may be enriched by gifts received, or by purchase taken from some other Nations, yet these are things uncertain and of small consideration when they happen. The ordinary means therefore to increase our wealth and treasure is by Foreign Trade

As the world of chips and glass fibers and wireless waves goes, so goes the rest of the world

The inhabitants of Rhode Island, especially those of Newport, have had by far the greatest share of this traffic of all these United States. This trade in the human species has been the first wheel of commerce in Newport, on which every other movement in business has chiefly depended. That town has been built up, and flourished in times past, at the expense of the blood, the liberty, and the happiness of the poor Africans; and the inhabitants have lived on this, and by it have gotten most of their wealth and riches.

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

It is impossible for any power to become eminent in commerce, without excelling in manufactures and navigation. America is capable of supporting and increasing both …

The enhancement of the profits of agriculture, the excitement of manufacturing industry, the activity of internal trade, the benefits of lucrative traffic; the interchange of valuable commodities – the commerce of fertile, remote, and wide-spread regions, and the approximation of the most distant parts of the Union, by the facility and rapidity of communication that will result from the completion of these stupendous works, will spread the blessings of plenty and opulence to an immeasurable extent. The resources of the State are fully adequate without extraneous aid; and when we consider that every portion of the nation will feel the animating spirit and vivifying influences of these great works; that they will receive the benediction of posterity and command the approbation of the civilized world; we are required to persevere by every dictate of interest, by every sentiment of honor, by every injunction of patriotism, and by every consideration which ought to influence the councils and govern the conduct of a free, high-minded, enlightened, and magnanimous people.

The leading factor in the building of business America has been the ready means of communication between the states of the Union, unhampered, for one hundred and fifty years, by artificial barriers to trade. This has enabled us to build up the greatest home market the world has ever known.

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

The Internet, as a platform, I think is really fantastic.

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

The Internet wasn't useful until some basic infrastructure was built.

In analyzing what made the Golden Century of 1870 to 1970 possible, it becomes clear that four physical infrastructure technologies provided the underlying foundation for growth: energy, transportation, health and sanitation, and communication.

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

If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.