Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.
They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world.
Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston.
Here are the choices I don't want to make: between paying additional fuel costs and flying and steaming less; between paying additional fuel costs and building fewer ships and planes.
A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn quickly.
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
As we look at a future where we're going to have to double our freight capacity, how do you create a freight system that's integrated across the country when you have 50 different freight systems that are built one state at a time?
Shipping by water is cheaper than by rail, which is cheaper than by truck.
I'm a trader. Under the right circumstances, I'd consider a new boat. I'm not ruling it out.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.