Merchant Quotes

87 Merchant quotes by 75 unique authors

The thought in my mind was that I must be a good merchant. If I were a good merchant, the rest would probably take care… — James Cash Penney
I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant. — Albert Camus
A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind. — Samuel Johnson
The merchant has no country . — Thomas Jefferson
There are three things that are not to be credited: a woman when she weeps, a merchant when he swears, nor a drunkard when he… — Barnabe Rich
A merchant is someone who figures out how to select, how to smell, how to identify, how to feel, how to time, how to buy,… — Millard Drexler
Many sections are taken up with political discussions and how the way of the ruler, the merchant, the householder, and the army interact with the… — Frederick Lenz
Roy Jones still number one and it's gon' be that way baby! For all these doubters, him [points to Larry Merchant] and the rest of… — Roy Jones Jr.
The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill… — Douglass North
But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese… — Joseph C. Lincoln
A good part of why I never went back to England was part of that, I didn't want to be in those sort of flowery… — Tim Roth
It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics, but is true… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine. — Clint Walker
Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch.… — Victor Hugo
Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man. — Glenn Close
No matter who reigns, the merchant reigns. — Henry Ward Beecher
The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him to take such… — W. E. B. Du Bois
The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads. — Ann Macbeth
I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the… — Millard Drexler
I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called.… — Zach Galifianakis
The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'Tis the day of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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