Law Quotes on Business

Organized business is a thing of law; and the law is always
hard and unrelenting toward the weak.
(Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) Proverbs from Plymouth
Pulpit)
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It is when merchants dispute about their own rules that they
invoke the law.
(Judge Brett (1815-1899) Robinson v. Mollett, 1875)
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The great object of the law is to encourage commerce.
(Judge Chambre (1739-1823) Beale v. Thompson, 1803)
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The most enlightened judicial policy is to let people manage their
own business in their own way.
(Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935) Dr Miles Medical Co. v.
Park & Sons Co., 1911)
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Laws for the regulation of trade should be most carefully
scanned. That which hampers, limits, cripples and retards
must be done away with.
(Elbert Hubbard (1856-19150) Notebook, 1927, p. 16)
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Convenience is the basis of mercantile law.
(Lord Mansfield (1705-1793) Medcalf v. hall, 1782)
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(Extracted from Collins Dictionary of Business Quotations by Simon James
& Robert Parker, Harper Collins Publishers, Glasgow, 1990)