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“The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent - for every effect a perfect cause - and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.”

Source: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

“Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, 'I'll do nothing until I can be sure.' Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose. Don't be one of those merchants who wont risk the ocean.”

People Ifs Knows I Can Spiritual Certain Loses Risk Ocean Ships Load Vessel Harbors Cautious Merchants

Author:Rumi

“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.”

Years Done Hands Years Ago Died Majority Fifty Fishing Marine Merchants Capes Portuguese Marine Life Merchant Marine

Author:Joseph C. Lincoln

“Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select-doctor, lawyer, merchant-chief, and yes, even beggar man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.”

“It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.”

Men Country Political Reading Forget Half Leader Military Figures Standards Population Merchants Explorers Political Leaders Invisibility Submerged Overlooking

Book:A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

“A good part of why I never went back to England was part of that, I didn't want to be in those sort of flowery films. But I think it's a nice change of pace-I don't know how long it'll go for. There will always be the Merchant-Ivory/Kenneth Branagh movies, but there's something else now-really, it's always been there but the Americans getting to see it makes all the difference.”

Thinking Knows Want Long Film Change Differences Know How Nice England Pace Merchants Ivory Kenneth

Author:Tim Roth

“The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade.”

Wells Trade Constant West South Profit British Loser Continents Virginia Merchants Carolina South Carolina West Indies

Author:Ezra Stiles

“The masters and grandmasters can be divided into three groups - the inveterate time trouble merchants, those who sometimes get into trouble, and those for whom the phenomenon is a very rare occurence.”

Sometimes Time Three Trouble Groups Masters Chess Phenomenon Divided Merchants

Author:Alexander Kotov

“The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as to everything respecting foreign affairs. Let the General Government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs be disentangled from those of all other nations, except as to commerce, which the merchants will manage the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves, and our General Government may be reduced to a very simple organization, and a very inexpensive one; a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants.”

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin

“How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.”

World Soul Pieces Strange Gold Silver Priests Merchants

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

“It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics, but is true of every exclusive occupation. Likewise a mere linguist, a mere jurist, a mere soldier, a mere merchant, and so forth. One could add such idle chatter that when a certain exclusive occupation is often connected with certain specific shortcomings, it is on the other hand always free of certain other shortcomings.”

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

Needs Believe Dream Land Empty Merchants Make Believe

Author:Arthur Erickson

“Use gentle methods to get whatever good you can from priests and monks who are slaves, as well as from merchants and captives. Resort to severe measures only in extreme cases, for fear lest the hardship they are already enduring in their state of captivity, joined to the strictness you might want to exercise in virtue of your authority, drive them to despair. . . . It is not light they need, but strength, and strength permeates through the external balm of words and good example.”

Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653

“Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.”

People Giving Children Stills Dream Opportunity Adults Merchants Cirque Du Soleil

Author:Guy Laliberte

“I am sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark.”

Dog Lips Bark Merchants Oracles Merchant Of Venice

Author:William Shakespeare

“Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine.”

Summer Rivers Boat Pushing New Orleans Marine Merchants Merchant Marine

Author:Clint Walker

“To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.”

Giving Feels God Rich Revolution Lows Balls Misery Appearance Credit Suspects Merchants

Book:Saint Denis

Source: Saint Denis

“The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.”

May Law Brain Blood Cold Anger Hot Leap Temper Merchants Temperance Decree Merchant Of Venice Devising Means

Author:William Shakespeare

“I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?”

Hands Eye Passion Affection Jew Senses Dimensions Instruction Organs Venice Merchants Merchant Of Venice Shylock Merchant Of Venice Famous No Revenge

Author:William Shakespeare

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

Men Genius Passionate Driven Outrageous Merchants Seductive

Author:Glenn Close

“The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.”

“The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him to take such risks that he has more to tear than to hope. Abu al'Fadl Ja'far al-Dimishqi (c. 9th century) Arab writer. The Beauties of Commerce Business pays ... philanthropy begs.”

Business Pay Risk Century Tears Optimism Als Pessimism Commerce Philanthropy Optimist Pessimist Merchants

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human action is given by material impulses ... merchants stood as a driving force behind the heroes of the age of discovery; this first heroic impulse to conquer the world emanated from very mortal forces”

“I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.”

Knows Important Running Certain Numbers Know How Instinct Intuition Merchants

Author:Millard Drexler

“I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called. But you just take what's given and then, hopefully, down the road you can be more choosy and only do, say, Wayans brothers movies. That's my goal: to be more Merchant-Ivory-Wayans.”

Way Film Given Wish Waiting Goal Brother Hopefully My Way Merchants Down The Road Ivory Choosy

Author:Zach Galifianakis

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