#merchant

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

— James Cash Penney

#business #competition #fear #idea #merchant

Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#company #dealing #educations #ended #father

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

— William Petty

#every #merchant #navigator #only #seaman

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

— Mark Kelly

#bachelor #couple #degree #degrees #graduate degree

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

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

#does #down #ever #friends #got