Commerce and art are natural enemies. And also, the enemy of good is great. And the enemy of great is good, so there's this huge juggling that's going on all the time.
‐‐ David Foster
Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
‐‐ Thomas Gray
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
‐‐ Charles Caleb Colton
Commerce has changed the ethics of citizenship and the incentives for national service. America now buys private contractors - we used to call them mercenaries - to do the country's fighting.
‐‐ Michael Ignatieff
Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora Judaism.
‐‐ Steven Pinker
Commerce is abusive. It's very hobbling to always be saying, 'Please let me put this out, this thing I've worked on for years.' It's like a nasty parent saying, 'No! Now go to your room.' As publishing companies got bigger, you felt even less significant.
‐‐ Patti Davis
Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.
‐‐ Robin Day
Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs and wants. It engages the mechanisms of reciprocal altruism, as the evolutionary biologists call it, as opposed to raw dominance.
‐‐ Steven Pinker
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson
Commercial art is traditionally delivered to a client in a brown-paper bag with an invoice stapled to the outside.
‐‐ Brad Holland
Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs.
‐‐ John Gutfreund
Commercial banks - that is, fractional reserve banks - create money out of thin air. Essentially, they do it in the same way as counterfeiters.
‐‐ Murray Rothbard
Commercial books don't even get covered. The reason why so many book reviews go out of business is because they cover a lot of stuff that nobody cares about. Imagine if the movie pages covered none of the big movies and all they covered were movies that you couldn't even find in the theater?
‐‐ James Patterson
Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.
‐‐ Josiah Strong
Commercial fishermen are the greediest, stupidest people on earth.
‐‐ Paul Watson
Commercial institutions, proud of their achievements, do not see that healthy living systems - clean air and water, healthy soil, stable climates - are integral to a functioning economy. As our living systems deteriorate, traditional forecasting and business economics become the equivalent of house rules on a sinking cruise ship.
‐‐ Paul Hawken
'Commercial' is not the word that has to be said only by CEOs. It has to be something that is maybe the essence of design, because design has some sort of art in it and creation, but it's also some object that you have to use. There is also this pragmatic end to it.
‐‐ Alber Elbaz
Commercial jobs are pretty easily adjustable because they only take a few hours to complete, which is one of the reasons they are a Godsend to the actor.
‐‐ Thayer David
Commercial movies have no feeling, no sensitivity. Most people tell me people won't understand films with feeling. But everyone can feel.
‐‐ John Cassavetes
Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.
‐‐ Kenneth Edmonds
Commercial real estate always trails residential, and as residential growth flourishes, shopping centers flourish and service the communities, and jobs come out.
‐‐ Johnny Isakson
Commercial real estate is really a black box: its super opaque, and it's hard to get the information.
‐‐ Jason Calacanis
Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
‐‐ James Madison
Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.
‐‐ Jef I. Richards
Commercialism in the Western world has got us by the scruff of the neck. It's a technological takeover, and we can't even see it happening because we're too busy enjoying it.
‐‐ Rhys Darby
Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way.
‐‐ Feist
Commercialization of assets off the planet would mutually reinforce the growth of interplanetary communication.
‐‐ Vint Cerf
Commercials are art, too; they're 30-second movies starring people like me. If you look down on the medium, you're never going to book. If you don't love it, do not bother. Find another job you like.
‐‐ Geneva Carr
Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy's show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.
‐‐ Dick Cavett
Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
‐‐ Calvin Klein
Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.
‐‐ Jack Gould
Commercials that are geared towards kids. I think they should just, like, wipe them out.
‐‐ Mark Ruffalo
Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in.
‐‐ River Phoenix
Commissioners are obsessed with young people, which is funny because they don't watch telly - only old people do.
‐‐ Jennifer Saunders
Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain't cheap. A good accountant costs money as well. The math on this one is obvious, yet investors often fail to recognize it: Keep your costs low and your turnover lower, and you will win in the end.
‐‐ Barry Ritholtz
Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.
‐‐ Jean Cocteau
Commit to what you love - that's important. Believe in yourself and try as much as possible to do everything you do from a place of love. Not labor, but love.
‐‐ Michael Mando
Commit yourself to an organization or cause that genuinely fires you up.
‐‐ Nancy Lublin
Commit yourself to quality from day one... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.
‐‐ Mark McCormack
Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained.
‐‐ Gary Zukav
Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.
‐‐ Donald Johanson
Commitment is an act, not a word.
‐‐ Jean-Paul Sartre
Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.
‐‐ Howard Thurman
Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.
‐‐ Carlos Ghosn
Commitment to one other person in life is glorious.
‐‐ Kate Winslet
Commitment to the rule of law provides a basic assurance that people can know what to expect whether what they do is popular or unpopular at the time.
‐‐ Sandra Day O'Connor
Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.
‐‐ Neil Young
Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.
‐‐ Ogden Nash
Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
‐‐ Fred Allen