#trade

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. ↗

— George Adam Smith

#conspiracy #contrivance #conversation #diversion #ends

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade? ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#beat #conscience #education #faster #heart

Every man lives by exchanging. ↗

— Adam Smith

#exchange #how-life-works #trade #life

A fair bargain leaves both sides unhappy. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#trade #money

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#make #second #sing #songs #them

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing. ↗