Merchant Quotes

The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client. (William S. Burroughs)
For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads. View quote
Ann Macbeth
Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Southern colonies, except North Carolina, were on the whole similar to Virginia in these respects. View quote
Carl L. Becker
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The State, then, whether primitive, feudal or merchant, is the organization of the political means. View quote
Albert Jay Nock
Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The horseman serves the horse, The neatherd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'T is the day of the chattel, Web to weave, and corn to grind; Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all he has. It is the pearl of great price to by which the merchant will sell all his goods. View quote
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country. View quote
Adam Smith
The principal impact of foreign enterprise on the development of the underdeveloped countries lies in hardening and strengthening the sway of merchant capitalism, in slowing down and indeed preventing its transformation into industrial capitalism. (Paul A. Baran)
Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man. View quote
Glenn Close
Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier. View quote
William Petty
The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land. View quote
Arthur Erickson
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 who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago. View quote
Joseph C. Lincoln
A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition. View quote
James Cash Penney
There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor. View quote
James Cash Penney
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 of itself. View quote
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 buy, how to sell, and how to hopefully have two plus two equal six. View quote
Millard Drexler
I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers. View quote
Millard Drexler
Stop jumping with joy every time a crime happens, Mr Rahul Gandhi. The state has already assured strict and prompt action. You divide the society in every manner possible for electoral gains and then shed crocodile tears. Enough is enough. You are a MERCHANT OF HATE. (Rahul Gandhi)
Other Street Merchant:Nothing, I have absolutely nothing for sale! View quote
Mel Brooks
Impoverished Paris Street Merchant (Jack Carter): Rats, rats for sale. Get your rats. Good for rat stew, rat soup, or the ever-popular ratatouille. View quote
Mel Brooks
God beareth Me witness, I was not a man of learning, for I was trained as a merchant. In the year sixty God graciously infused my soul with the conclusive evidences and weighty knowledge which characterize Him Who is the Testimony of God - may peace be upon Him - until finally in that year I proclaimed God's hidden Cause and unveiled its well-guarded Pillar, in such wise that no one could refute it. ‘That he who should perish might perish with a clear proof before him and he who should live might live by clear proof.' View quote
Báb
What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed? View quote
James Madison