#commerce

In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait. ↗

— Les Brown

#bait #business #commerce #communications #day-to-day

The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#arts #commerce #common #economic #endeavors

The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags. ↗

— James Buchan

#any #bags #commerce #completed #course

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#american empire #announced #become #commerce #debtor

The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment. ↗

— Alex Winter

#commerce #days #end #enormous #expecting

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#comedies #commerce #fulfillment #look #looking

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#commerce #conscience #happiness #humanity #knowledge

People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out e-commerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#applications #carry #e-commerce #get #information

A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#commerce #each #experiment #focus #intellect

I fully support global commerce. ↗

— Jim Costa

#fully #global #i #support