Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade."
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Trade
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Alexander Elder
Trader and Author
"Remember, your goal is to trade well, not to trade often."
Marlene Dietrich
Actress, Singer
"Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade."
James J. Hill
Businessman, Railroad Executive
"If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth."
John Ruskin
Art Critic, Writer
"Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade."
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"Free trade is not based on utility but on justice."
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"You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade."
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"Every man lives by exchanging."
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"Yes, I will put it out there - I will work for anyone for free if they're prepared to make their clothing Fair Trade and organic. It's really hard to get people interested in it."
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"It's very hard to find things that rhyme with North American Free Trade Agreement."
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"I ain't racist but lets trade places."
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"I'm an artist by trade and an author by necessity."
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"Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?"
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"Advertising is the life of trade."
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"There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade."
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"He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate."
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"A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade."
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"It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting."
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"The Montessori Method- learning by doing-once again became my stock in trade."
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"Music, moody food Of us that trade in love."
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"Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?"
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"I wouldn't trade anything for my story now."
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"I don't mean to complain. I wouldn't trade my life for anything."
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"Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither."
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"Don't trade future blessings for temporary pleasures."
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