Merchant Quotes

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

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.

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?

You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.

The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads.

I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.

Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.

Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares.

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.

Well, actually, I had been working as a consultant to former companies of Enron, or predecessor companies of Enron and, so, I joined in 1990 to really start our wholesale merchant business.

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

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.

In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

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 anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley.

We had not had time to establish ourselves as a double act before Ernie joined the Merchant Navy. I teamed up with the brother of the late Dave Morris.

Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor.

Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.

Well, I have an undergraduate degree, a couple of bachelor's degrees, from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.