170 Quotes About Trade

Don't trade your happy life in for a sad life because tragedy is happening simultaneously. (Take a moment to think on that statement.)⁣⁣What are you trading your life for? Where is your time really going? You have freedom, but are you free? Remove self-imposed chains.

Buy laughter with tears, and you'll be rich forever.

I can pretend it’s all pretend! I can be the life of your death and you can be the death of my life… what a trade-off!

The king who deals harshly with merchants who come from afar closes the door of well-being upon the whole of his subjects. When do the wise return to the land of which they hear rumours of bad custom?

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said "It is the trade entering his body.

The expected value of something is not a good guide to its price.

She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.

My take on socialism is this: Socialism only seems to work when you don't fully implement it, when you keep enough capitalism around to pay socialism's bills, at least for a time. It's the difference between milking the cow and killing it. Socialism has no theory of wealth creation; it's just a destructive, envy-driven fantasy about redistributing it after something else (and somebody else) creates it first.