Merchant Quotes

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.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Work, Yourself, Him

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

Soldier, Seaman

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?
James Madison

May, Before, Knows

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

Honest, Unless, Cheated

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

School, Military, Mission

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
Charles Baudelaire

Honesty, Financial

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

Business, Fear, Nothing

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

Success, Great, Dream

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.
Damian Lewis

Faith, Good, Democracy

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

Friend, Fair, Competitor

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.
James Cash Penney

Good, Mind, Care

Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.
James MacArthur

Sadness, Disney, Walt

The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads.
Ann Macbeth

British, Blindly, Follows

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

Genius, Passionate, Driven

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.
Kazuo Ishiguro

Time, Movies, Thought

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

Couple, Bachelor, Degree

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.
Douglass North

War, School, Strong

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

Science, Artist, Nations

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.
Joseph C. Lincoln

Done, Away, Fishing

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.
Eric Morecambe

Time, Before, Brother

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.
Rosser Reeves

Simple, Personal, Actually

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.
Jeffrey Skilling

Business, Working, Start

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