#commerce

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#between #commerce #disinterested #equals #friendship

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

— Tom Hanks

#comedies #commerce #fulfillment #look #looking

Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#also #amount #banker #board #certain

And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1990s, about e-commerce, or internet traffic, or broadband adoption, or internet advertising, they were all right - they were just wrong in time. ↗

— Chris Anderson

#adoption #advertising #boom #broadband #during

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#communion #effect #ideas #images #minds

You do not export democracy through the Defense Department or the Defense Secretary. You do it through trade agreements, through the Department of Commerce and favorable agreements with our friends and neighbors across the globe. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#agreements #commerce #defense #democracy #department

Local commerce, without question, will be one of the fundamental use cases enabled by mobile devices over the next several years. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#commerce #devices #enabled #fundamental #local

British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#british #commerce #confident #constant #constant flow

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

— Michael Oxley

#also #e-commerce #essential #leadership #now

Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations. ↗

— Thomas Gray

#commerce #fate #genius #nations