Able Quote by James Cook

“All men, taken singly, are more or less selfish; and taken in bodies, they are intensely so. The British merchant is no exception to…

— Charlotte Brontë

The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him to take…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

A great merchant delivers both joy and profit. Then profit gets reinvested in more joy.

— Andy Dunn

Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and courtier. But…

— Augustin Thierry

The thought in my mind was that I must be a good merchant. If I were a good merchant, the rest would probably take…

— James Cash Penney

I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows…

— Millard Drexler

I think a lot of times when people talk about merchants, it's almost a nostalgic look back at the time where the world moved…

— Edward Lampert

People are divided into two classes - those who profit by experience and those who do not. The unfortunate part of it all is…

— Douglas Fairbanks

The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A merchant is someone who figures out how to select, how to smell, how to identify, how to feel, how to time, how to…

— Millard Drexler

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their…

— Thomas Jefferson

Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley