Commerce
- John Aikman Stewart (1822–1926), American banker
- John Stewart (financier) (1860–1938), Scottish-born Canadian financier and railway builder
- John K. Stewart (1870–1916), American entrepreneur and inventor
- Sir John Stewart, 1st Baronet, of Fingask (1877–1924), Scottish whisky distiller
- John D. Stewart (journalist) (1915–1998), American business journalist
- John Leighton Stewart (1876–1940), American newspaper publisher
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Famous quotes containing the word commerce:
“The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.”
—Anita Brookner (b. 1938)
“Practically speaking, the opponents to a reform in Massachusetts are not a hundred thousand politicians at the South, but a hundred thousand merchants and farmers here, who are more interested in commerce and agriculture than they are in humanity, and are not prepared to do justice to the slave and to Mexico, cost what it may. I quarrel not with far-off foes, but with those who, near at home, coöperate with, and do the bidding of, those far away, and without whom the latter would be harmless.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I leave you, home,
when I’m ripped from the doorstep
by commerce or fate. Then I submit
to the awful subway of the world....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)