Trades Quotes

• No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

  

  Socrates
  • Man
  • Government
  • Learned

• If most traders would learn to sit on their hands 50 per cent of the time, they would make a lot more money.

  

  Bill Lipschutz
  • Money
  • Learn
  • Trades

• Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Practice

• I'm not a jack of all trades; I'm a master of many. I don't feel there is anything I can't do if I want to.

  

  Evel Knievel
  • Master
  • Trades
  • Don't Feel

• Tis sweet to know that stocks will stand When we with Daisies lie- That Commerce will continue- And Trades as briskly fly.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Lie
  • Commerce
  • Trades

• All trades, arts, and handiworks have gained by division of labor... Where the different kinds of work are not distinguished and divided, where everyone is a jack-of-all-trades, there manufactures remain still in the greatest barbarism.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Labor
  • Barbarism
  • Trades

• The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades he links the four quarters of the globe.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Intellect
  • Neighbor
  • Globe

• The Lord's visitations of distinguished favor are always to the diligent. That great men may not be ashamed of honest vocations, the greatest that have ever lived have been contented, happy, and honored while in the pursuit of humble trades.

  

  Elias Lyman Magoon
  • Happy
  • Vocations
  • VIsitations

• I take pride in being a jack of all trades.

  

  Ezekiel Elliott
  • Pride
  • Trades
  • Jack

• If you're looking for a silver lining to a dark cloud, that would be it, ... I wasn't traded for a bag of pucks. It helps your confidence to know that you are being traded for quality hockey players. It's been interesting. I've been moved around quite a bit, always in big trades. Most times, the reasons were economic ones.

  

  Anson Carter
  • Players
  • Reasons
  • Trades

• I've made a variety of trades in my career, but that was obviously one of the best.

  

  Bryan Murray
  • Career
  • Trades