#merchant

The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

#america #either #europe #europeans #few

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#constitute #country #does #draw #gains

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. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#carolina #constant #continent #indeed #indies

I have no respect to merchants and preachers; as far as I’m concerned, their only talent is coming up with the right word at the right time. What is a professional preacher, really? He is a kind of middleman who for the wrong reasons tries to make people buy his goods. The more he sells, the more his stock rises. The louder he hawks his wares, the larger his business grows. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#preachers #business

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

#before #brother #dave #double #establish

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#even #financial #honesty #honesty is #merchant

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

— Arthur Erickson

#disney #dream #empty #everyone #great

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

— Guy Laliberte

#child #children #dream #every #giving

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

#ago #away #cape #died #done

We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness. ↗

— Bernard Loiseau

#happiness #merchants #selling