Crafts Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Animosity towards the merchant class has been around for centuries. Why? The goal of making a profit is quite obviously a self-serving motive. Other…

— James Cook

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

— Andy Dunn

These considerations and many others that might be mentioned prove, and experience confirms it, that artisans and manufacturers will commonly be disposed to bestow…

— James Madison

By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise,…

— Alexander Hamilton

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

The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.

— Theo de Raadt

The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves.

— Thomas Jefferson

Instead of investing in the goods as they pass between producer and consumer, as the merchant does, the businessman now invests in the processes…

— Thorstein Veblen

“Maintaining proper relationships with vendors is very crucial in bringing down the cost of your products and sourcing the perfect raw materials.”

— Pooja Agnihotri

It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and not merely holding down a job, that the…

— Ananda Coomaraswamy