Hernan Cortes 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.

Buy cheap and sell dear.

We know full well we cannot sell where we do not buy and we cannot sell successfully where we do not carry.

Everyone lives by selling something.

I love cities, I spend most of my life talking about cities. And the design of cities does have an effect on your life. You're lucky if you can see trees out of your window and you have a square nearby, or a bar, a cornershop, a surgery. Then you're living well.

When I thought about Detroit, I would think big city, very urban - not a lot of places to walk around, not a lot of parks. I sort of pictured Manhattan almost, where, besides Central Park, it's all city and big buildings. But now that I'm here, you see people pushing strollers, people hanging out in the park.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.

I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city.

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

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

Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the buildings themselves.

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we're making is something that intrigues me very much.

But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.

The need of a constantly expanding market for his products chases the manufacturer over the whole surface of the globe. They must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere.

I think the city is the strongest social memory organ of humanity.

My studio's passion is improving the public experience of cities for everyone.

The thing to do is to buy and sell.

New York is just an energy. There's a beauty to the way it's laid out: the architecture, the way the planning is. It's huge, but you really do get to experience more than your own existence here. It's kinda hard to isolate yourself from different types of people, different types of ideas or communities.

'Shan shui' you can literally translate as 'mountain and water.' In traditional Chinese culture, there are a lot of paintings about shan shui, but now we're talking about a shan-shui city.

Chicago is a city built on architecture, and there are plenty of buildings to scale.

I love being in Delhi, the food and the infrastructure are amazing.

You can't have a single design for all cities. The look and feel of the streetlights are very important.

Most of the job on DDP was already done by the time I became mayor. So was Gwanghwamun Square, described by many architects as the city's worst architectural creation, and the new city hall. I did not think that redoing them would be the right approach as that would only create new problems.