Commerce is the art of exploiting the need or desire someone has for something.
-Edmond de Goncourt (1822 – 1896)
French novelist and diarist.
Le Journal des Goncourts (co-written with Jules de Goncourt)
It is so obvious that businesses thrives on consumerism. Consumerism is the attitude that values the acquisition of material goods. I did our last minute [...]
I believe there is an unseen world around us.
- Stephen King (1947-), Nightmares and Dreamscapes.
I managed to get part-time help. She comes twice a week to do general cleaning, ironing of clothes and gardening. She is actually my ear, since I rarely venture out of the neighborhood, she tells me all sorts of stories about [...]
I had the opportunity to watch a friend operate her rice business. She owns hectares of land grown with rice and she co-owns a couple of hectares with other farmers as well. I watched her bargain with a farmer about buying their unmilled rice and drying and milling the rice herself and selling it through [...]
