Merchant Quotes

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. — Charles Baudelaire
Second is the way of the merchant. The wine maker obtains his ingredients and puts them to use to make his living. The way of… — Miyamoto Musashi
With regard to the learned professions, little need be observed; they truly form no distinct interest in society . . . [discussing the landed, merchant,… — Alexander Hamilton
Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and courtier. But the… — Augustin Thierry
By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise, it… — Alexander Hamilton
It is no longer simply the merchant prince, or the aristocratic monopoly, or even the employing class, that is exploiting the world: it is the… — Howard Zinn
The Prophet also said: "A truthful and trustworthy merchant is associated with the prophets." — Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi
I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is the worldly religion… — Karl Marx
A. T. Stewart started life with a dollar and fifty cents. This merchant prince began by calling at the doors of houses in order to… — Grenville Kleiser
Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader.… — Newell Dwight Hillis
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts… — Edward Dahlberg
A traveller must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth… — Thomas Nashe
It is to the real advantage of every producer, every manufacturer and every merchant to cooperate in the improvement of working conditions, because the best… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at… — John B. Watson
As Day and other observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic [slave rebellions in the South] failed, it became… — Eustace Mullins
Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you… — Rosser Reeves
Those 4 guys in the late 60's who attacked a jewel merchant on New York's West 46th St. on the sidewalk, so they could steal… — Donald E. Westlake
Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish. — Charles Fourier

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