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Merchants Quotes

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

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

James Cash Penney (1960). “View from the Ninth Decade: Jottings from a Merchant's Daybook”

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.

George Horace Lorimer (1904). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”

Ministers and merchants love nobody.

Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1858). “The life and letters of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography and select correspondence, from original manuscripts”, p.429

Merchants have no country.

Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence”, p.334

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

Robert Burns (1823). “The Songs and Ballads of Robert Burns: Including Ten Never Before Published”, p.125

The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.344

No matter who reigns, the merchant reigns.

Henry Ward Beecher (1859). “New Star Papers: Or, Views and Experiences of Religious Subjects ...”, p.118