Quote by Edith Wharton

“I live to create value in peoples' lives and I measure myself by their reactions. I'm a love merchant. I trade in intangibles.”

— Tim Sanders

“This is a handy cove, and a pleasant sittyated grog-shop. Much company, mate?”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“You see, Flavia, silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities.”

— Alan Bradley

“Everywhere, there was imbalance, and the surest path to profit was to be between something valuable and someone who valued it.”

— James S.A. Corey

“Only merchants have money to waste, and what are they but parasites who create nothing, grow nothing, make nothing but feed off another's labor?”

— James Clavell

“Sometimes in life, as in literature, people get their just desserts. The greedy man loses everything because he cannot resist seeking more riches.”

— Elise Blackwell

“And in my own life I am not willing to trade quality for quantity.”

— John Steinbeck

“Commerce does not have to be a ruthless, brutal enterprise that damages people’s lives. It can be a source of happiness, healing, and hope.”

— Brian de Haaff

“I began to make some money, but I could never bring myself to leave someone else in charge of the shop; the crystals are…

— Paulo Coelho

“I am accustomed, with reference to great professions and severe faces, to judge of the goods of the other world pretty much as I…

— Charles Dickens

“That is why I taught you how to trade, because that's what life is - a barter of choices and consequences.”

— Samantha Sotto

“I am a trader. I earn what I get in trade for what I produce. I ask for nothing more or nothing less than…

— Alex Ayres