Best Merchants Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The History of Carolina: Containing the Exact Description and Natural History of that Country, Together with the Present State Thereof and a Journal of a Thousand Miles Traveled Through Several Nations of Indians, Giving a Particular Account of Their Customs, Manners, &c., &c

“The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'Tis the day of the chattel, Web to weave, and corn to grind, Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.”

Mankind Horse Meat Consumerism Corn Neat Herds Grind Purses Merchants Overconsumption Saddles Horsemen

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind, than as one of the species, by which means I have made myself a speculative statesman, soldier, merchant, and artisan, without ever meddling with any practical part of life.”

World Mean Made Mankind Species Soldier Practicals Spectators Statesmen Parts Of Life Merchants Meddling Artisans

Author:Joseph Addison

“I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift.”

Knows Men Writing Littles Knowledge Painting Painter Amazed Manufacturing Merchants

Book:Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

“For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.”

Self Lord Horse Refuge Thyself Merchants Curb Good Horse

Book:Dhammapada

Source: Dhammapada

“Business is no longer a matter of profits alone. Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any merchant in proportion to the service which he gives to the public.”

Giving Matter Given Profit Satisfaction Proportion Merchants

Author:James Cash Penney

“It's a chicken-and-egg thing. You could send cards to everyone in San Francisco, but if the merchants don't have the terminals, what's the point? What you need is a cooperative effort with merchants in a metropolitan area to create a tipping point where you can justify advertising and merchants are willing to attempt this new payment system.”

Ifs Needs Effort Willing Areas Cards Advertising Justify Eggs Chickens San Francisco Payment Merchants Cooperatives Tipping Tipping Point Metropolitan

Author:David Robertson

“Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The whole world thinks that this city is the most beautiful place on earth.”

Thinking World Whole Earth Beautiful Cities Poet Universal Whole World Admiration Scream Princess Sailor Merchants Diplomats Beautiful Places Istanbul Westerners Northerners

Author:Edmondo De Amicis

“You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers.”

People Law Pay Millions Operations Fishing Revenue Tribute Merchants Bounty Navigation

Author:John Henninger Reagan

“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.”

Men Grace Fields Sells Sake Treasure Goods Pearls Discipleship Merchants Cheap Grace

Book:The Cost of Discipleship

Source: The Cost of Discipleship

“A German merchant of the fifteenth century asked an eminent professor where he should send his son for a good business education. The professor responded that German universities would be sufficient to teach the boy addition and subtraction but he would have to go to Italy to learn multiplication and division. Before you smile indulgently, try multiplying or even just adding the Roman numerals CCLXIV, MDCCCIX, DCL, and MLXXXI without first translating them.”

Source: Beyond Numeracy

“Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.”

Knows Want Firsts Said Land What You Want Merchants Shortcuts Lawsuit

Book:Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

“It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.”

Men Merchants

Book:Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

Source: Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

“All the cold-reading clairvoyants and the nonsensical astrologers and absurd ESP merchants and other such people who talk about vibrations and energies.... God, if there's a word that drives me mad it's "energy" used in a nonsensical way-don't get me started!”

People Ifs Way Used Reading Energy Cold Mad Absurd Vibrations Merchants Nonsensical Esp

Author:Stephen Fry

“The ancient nobility and gentry of the kingdom... have been thrust out of all public employment... a race of merchants, and manufacturers and bankers and loan-jobbers and contractors have usurped their place.”

Has Beens Race Ancient Kingdoms Employment Nobility Loan Bankers Thrust Merchants Contractor

Author:William Cobbett

“We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest.”

Want House Sex Interest Pay Rights Accounts Endeavor Merchants Builder Flour Postman

Author:Lucy Stone

“It is a merchant's nature to quibble over coins. It is how we become rich and buy satin shirts. The problems of who governs this area is one for another day.”

Problem Rich Areas Shirts Coins Merchants Another Day Become Rich Satin

Author:David Gemmell

“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.”

Whole Facts Class Southern Nobility Farming Peasants Virginia Aristocracy Merchants Colony Carolina North Carolina

Author:Carl L. Becker

“European merchants supply the best weaponry, contributing to their own defeat.”

War Peace Power Arms Defeat Contributing Merchants Weaponry

Author:Saladin

“Up and down the the still sparsely settled coast of British North America, groups of men-intellectuals and farmers, scholars and merchants, the learned and the ignorant-gathered for the purpose of constructing enlightened governments.”

Men Stills Government America Purpose Groups British Ignorant Enlightened Farmers Scholar Coast Up And Down Merchants North America

Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

“How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.”

Children Mother Thoughtful Hypocrisy Cows Thieves Merchants Dupes Swindlers

Author:Honore de Balzac

“The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground.”

Kind Fruit Venice Merchants Merchant Of Venice Death In Venice

Author:William Shakespeare

“I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?”

“Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes.”

Passion Affection Mood Likes Mistress Venice Merchants Loathe Merchant Of Venice Shylock

Book:The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere

Source: The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere

“There are no more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants. They knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices, distribute the gifts of Nature, find work for the poor, and wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great.”

Together Wealth Poor Rich Mankind Members Office Mutual Commerce Intercourse Merchants Commonwealth Magnificence Good Office

Book:The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

Source: The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

“Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.”

Mean Doe Knowledge Information Stores Farmers Physicians Laboratory Sailor Merchants Aloof

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The farmer ploughs the manor.”

Gold Farmers Merchants

Book:The Songs and Ballads of Robert Burns: Including Ten Never Before Published

Source: The Songs and Ballads of Robert Burns: Including Ten Never Before Published

“The statesman, lawyer, merchant, man of trade Pants for the refuge of some rural shade, Where all his long anxieties forgot Amid the charms of a sequester'd spot, Or recollected only to gild o'er And add a smile to what was sweet before, He may possess the joys he thinks he sees, Lay his old age upon the lap of ease, Improve the remnant of his wasted span. And having lived a trifler, die a man.”