Merchant

It is when merchants dispute about their own rules that they invoke the law.

— Merchant

Merchants know perfectly well what they mean when they express themselves, not in the language of lawyers, but in the language of courteous mercantile communication.

— Merchant

The horseman serves the horse,And ride mankind.

— Merchant

Some confidence there must be between merchant and manufacturer. In matters exclusively within the province of the manufacturer the merchant relies on the manufacturer's skill, and he does so all the more readily when he has had the benefit of that skill before.

— Merchant

When I see a merchant over-polite to his customers, begging them to taste a little brandy and throwing half his goods on the counter,—thinks I, that man has an axe to grind.

— Merchant

Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.

— Merchant

The word commission sounds sweet in a merchant's ear.

— Merchant

When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.

— Merchant

Our merchants and master-manufacturers complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price, and thereby lessening the sale of their goods both at home and abroad. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.

— Merchant

A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.

— Merchant

Weighing scales made with sinews are a trap made for the feet; a man should not take a merchant for his friend.

— Merchant