"Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader."
Traders quotes
26 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader."
"Money is an invention of the marketplace of exchange, brought into being by traders who discovered that a reliable medium could facilitate trades that were more difficult or even impossible by barter alone."
"When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry."
"Once the high priests and the traders took over, we were lost as a species."
"The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes."
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