Warren G. Harding Quotes

Buy cheap and sell dear.

Texas is made for trade.

In a trading nation, the bent of all the laws should tend to the encouragement of commerce, and all measures should be there taken, with a due regard to its interest and advancement.

Everyone lives by selling something.

I spend my time being a retailer, not an economist.

Offshoring is only the latest manifestation of the gains from trade that economists have talked about at least since Adam Smith… More things are tradable than were tradable in the past, and that’s a good thing.

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.

Without this trade, it would have been and will always be, utterly impossible for the inhabitants of this colony to subsist themselves, or to pay for any considerable quantity of British goods

The thing to do is to buy and sell.

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

A board member of mine used to say sales fix everything in a startup, and that is really true.

Consumption has massively benefited from globalization.

You can find Chobani in every major supermarket, in club stores, convenience stores and airports. But we're not everywhere yet. We have been struggling with keeping up with demand.

I am interested in communicating with the world by selling to many people.

The purpose of a business is to create customers.

A trade war is a conflict in which each side uses most of its ammunition to shoot itself in the foot.

Countries trade with one another for the same reasons that individuals, businesses, and regions do: to exploit their comparative advantages.

One by one, trade and investment barriers will continue to be swept away by globalization, like leaves on an autumn day…The new challenge will be less to regulate relations among national economies, than to establish the rules and structures of a transnational economy.

By definition, by reducing our trade deficit we will be hurting consumers. Consumers are always better off with a trade deficit.

We are the greatest trading country in the world because we have the greatest exportation of the growth and product of our land and of the manufacture and labor of our people; and the greatest importation and consumption of the growth, product, and manufactures of other countries from abroad, of any nation in the world.

A Merchant may gain where the Nation loses.

Wee must ever observe this rule; to sell more to strangers yearly than wee consume of theirs in value

If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our own industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage.

It will be found, that as some particular Men in a Town grow richer, and thrive better than others; so also do Nations, who by Trade serving the occasions of their Neighbors, supply themselves with what they have occasion for from abroad; which done, the rest is laid up, and is Silver, Gold, etc. for as I said, these being commutable for everything, and of small bulk, are still preferr'd to be laid up, till occasion shall call them out to supply other Necessaries wanted.

The spirit of commerce has a tendency to soften the manners of men and to extinguish those inflammable humors which have so often kindled into wars.