- A handful of trade, a handful of gold. ~ Dutch Proverbs
- A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~ Irish Proverb
- Advertising is the mother of trade. ~ Japanese Proverb
- Another man’s trade costs money. ~ Portuguese Proverb
- Be not a jack of all trades, but a master of one. ~ Traditional Proverb
- Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~ Mark Twain
- Don’t just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade. ~ James Bennis
- Even a thief takes ten years to learn his trade. ~ Japanese Proverb
- Every man has a good wife and a bad trade. ~ Italian Proverb
- Every man to his trade. ~ Traditional Proverb
- Every one finds fault with his own trade. ~ Italian Proverb
- Flatterers and traders are related. ~ Basque Proverb
- Free trade is not based on utility but on justice. ~ Edmund Burke
- Free trade should not mean free labor. ~ Stephen F. Lynch
- He that hath a trade hath an estate; He that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor. ~ Benjamin Franklin
- He who cannot speak well of his trade does not understand it. ~ French Proverb
- He who does not teach his son a trade teaches him to steal. ~ Hebrew Proverb
- Hee that learnes a trade hath a purchase made. ~ George Herbert
- I believe you are your work. Don’t trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That’s a rotten bargain. ~ Rita Mae Brown
- If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
- In the long run, free trade benefits everyone; in the short run it is bound to produce much pain. ~ Henry Hobhouse
- Jack of all trades, master of none. ~ Traditional Proverb
- Let every man practice the trade which he best understands. ~ Traditional Proverb
- Many trades, begging the best. ~ German Proverb
- Men have become the tools of their trade. ~ Henry David Thoreau
- My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky. ~ William Faulkner
- No nation was ever ruined by trade. ~ Benjamin Franklin
- No trade will be made unless they want the thing more than they want their money. ~ Roy H. Williams
- On poor people’s beards the young barber learns his trade. ~ German Proverb
- People don’t trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things. ~ Roy H. Williams
- 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. ~ Adam Smith
- Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art. ~ Muhammad Hijazi
- Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader. ~ Elbert Hubbard
- Set your expense according to your trade. ~ Dutch Proverb
- Seven trades but no luck. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
- The man of many trades bakes his bread on Sunday. ~ Romanian Proverb
- The man of your own trade is your enemy. ~ Portuguese Proverb
- The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment. ~ Douglas Jerrold
- There are no foolish trades, there are only foolish people. ~ French Proverb
- There are tricks in every trade. ~ Italian Proverb
- Those who trade with heaven by prayer grow rich by quick returns. ~ William S. Plumer
- To your son give a good name and a trade. ~ Spanish Proverb
- Trade follows the flag. ~ French Proverb
- Trade knows neither friends nor kindred. ~ French Proverb
- Two of a trade can never agree. ~ Spanish Proverb
- War is the trade of Kings. ~ John Dryden
- We traded in shrouds; people stopped dying. ~ Lebanese Proverb
- Who has a trade may go anywhere. ~ Spanish Proverb
- Who is your enemy? A man of your own trade. ~ Spanish Proverb
- You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade. ~ Albert Camus
