Top 615 Trade Quotes

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
Thomas Jefferson
We believe that unilateral sanctions violate international law, in fact. They violate free trade. They violate human growth and development, human development, and that when you actually sanction a bank of a country, the meaning of it is quite clear. You’re sanctioning medicine for the people.
Hassan Rouhani
It is in all our interests that the arteries of global trade are kept free, open and running.
Philip Hammond
The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.
Mark Zandi
Today, even small entities that trade complex instruments or are granted sufficient leverage can threaten the global financial system.
Paul Singer
You don’t need to be within the single market to trade; it’s not an issue.
Nigel Lawson
President Obama has proven himself to be a terrible negotiator. I don’t support any trade deal negotiated by his administration.
Carlos Beruff
Some traders still think that a computer could not trade as well as they can.
Thomas Peterffy
If the United States had maintained its spending under Ronald Reagan, it is possible that the attacks of 9/11 – presaged by Islamic terror attacks on multiple American targets beginning with the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 – would have been stopped.
Ben Shapiro
Ohio workers and Ohio manufacturers already know that we are, in fact, in a trade war, and the Chinese have done very well, thank you.
Sherrod Brown
When I signed up for Y&R, my actor friends said, ‘A daytime soap? It’ll kill your career!’ Now they’d trade places with me in a heartbeat.
Jeanne Cooper
I went to Huddersfield University Business School. That

I went to Huddersfield University Business School. That’s where I learned my trade.
Rob James-Collier
As an economist, I’m aware that life is full of trade offs.
Peter Blair Henry
When I first started editing a ‘Year’s Best’ volume in the ’70s, the job was pretty straightforward – there were three or four monthly magazines to read and a few original anthologies from trade publishers every year.
Gardner Dozois
Engineers in the developed world should be arguing not for protectionism but for trade agreements that seek to establish rules that result in a real rise in living standards. This will ensure that outsourcing is a positive force in the developing nation’s economy and not an exploitative one.
Brian Behlendorf
Japan’s inexplicable lack of response to even consider a move to re-open their market to U.S. beef will sorely tempt economic trade action against Japan.
Saxby Chambliss
They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world.
Robert Toombs
I’m finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I’m finding myself really angry over what’s happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I’m angry about cap and trade. And I’ve been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.
Gary Johnson
If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.
Wyndham Lewis
Some actors specialize in shooting weapons and punching people. Some have the market on playing buffoons cornered, others specialize in roles that require heavy makeup or outrageous wardrobe. Some trade exclusively in a post-ironic blase attitude.
Rob Lowe
Main Street investors, who cannot trade credit default swaps, should not be tempted to trade an instrument with the same risk profile simply because it has been given a different name.
Daniel L. Doctoroff
Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.
Nelson A. Miles
I am by trade a designer, and I did Fine Art for my degree.
Samantha Cameron
Trade wars aren’t started by countries appealing to respected, independent trade authorities. Rather, trade wars begin when one country decides to violate international trade rules to undercut another country’s industries.
Ron Wyden
It’s important to focus on how we can strengthen international trade.
Maggie Hassan
If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.
Townsend Harris
You take the noise and put it in data information knowledge, and you get insight from that knowledge. How to execute the trade, the timing, sizing, long, short, and then you risk manage it.
Michael Hintze
I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I’ve just got to believe that we’re going to be all right. I’ve got to just play basketball.
Allen Iverson
During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs.
Betty White
The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience of the past 6 years.
Shigeru Yoshida
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
Jim Morrison
Too often, we restrict trade that would create U.S. jobs and is in our national interest.
Henry Paulson
Rising living standards – whether in a village, a region, a nation, or the world – depend first on specialization: on letting people concentrate on what they do best and trade with others who specialize in other things.
Virginia Postrel
I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country’s functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.
Xavier Becerra
The end-to-end value chain analysis proposed by the World Economic Forum has proved to be useful methodology, not only to identify trade barriers but also to highlight the importance of coordination among public-sector institutions.
Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal
Our stock in trade is raw, flailing sex.
Al Goldstein
The truth is that every trade deal imposes some restriction on sovereignty.
Dominic Grieve
I would trade any writerly success if it would mean my children would be happy.
Mary Gordon
Come on, when does it come to the point where your name can’t come up in trade talks? Willie Mays got traded. Pedro Martinez got traded. So what? That’s part of the game.
Eric Davis
America wins when we trade and export and import.
Mike Pence
It’s all about fair trade, and helping people eating locally grown stuff. We’re recycling everything. We’re trying to tour in the most conscious way possible, environmentally and socially.
Andrew Dost
In addition, for almost a year now I have been urging the President, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate suspicious gas price spikes.
Lois Capps
My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his li

My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.
Albrecht Durer
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
Henry David Thoreau
An intensification of trade or geopolitical tensions – with negative repercussions for global growth and risk appetite – could affect economies that are highly dependent on foreign demand or external financing.
Gita Gopinath
Britain is one of the world’s most open economies. More dependent on trade than any other major country. Our success depends on our competitiveness and our competitiveness depends on raising our productivity, as our competitors are raising theirs.
Philip Hammond
In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.
Albert Bushnell Hart
On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center.
Yochai Benkler
In my experience over the past 30 years in business, investment decisions can be slowed or stopped due to unpredictability in laws and regulatory framework or if free trade and competition is hampered or access to capital restricted.
Borje Ekholm
The whole idea of having a free trade area when you have gyrating exchange rates doesn’t make sense at all. It just spoils the effect of any kind of free trade agreement.
Robert Mundell
Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.
Zhu Rongji
I would trade all the individual awards I’ve won for a World Cup.
Abby Wambach
In 1962, President Kennedy expanded an earlier trade embargo put in place by a predecessor, President Eisenhower, to a total economic blockade, which pushed the Cubans further in Moscow’s direction.
Tariq Ali
I’m not opposed to free trade if it’s fair trade. But I am opposed to bad trade deals.
Martin O’Malley
I don’t think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that’s what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Bob Geldof
It was my mother’s idea. Her feeling was that I didn’t have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
Vidal Sassoon
Being a celebrity stylist, there are many tricks of the trade that I use in my house and with my clients.
Brad Goreski
Normal military trade is undoubtedly part of the normal State-to-State relations.
Li Peng
My mother was a free-spirited clinical therapist, and I had the most hard-working father, a television lighting director by trade. My mum raised me to be a global citizen, with eyes open to sometimes harsh realities.
Meghan Markle