Top 190 Merchant Quotes & Sayings

I enjoyed working with Stephen Merchant. He was wonderful. I've been such a big fan of his acting.

I cursed [Larry Merchant] out once, and I told him that he was a phony.

The merchant has no country .

For every Seaman of Industry and Ingenuity, is not only a Navigator, but a Merchant, and also a Soldier.

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

Civilization, let me tell you what it is. First the soldier, then the merchant, then the priest, then the lawyer. The merchant hires the soldier and priest to conquer the country for him. First the soldier, he is a murderer; then the priest, he is a liar; then the merchant, he is a thief; and they all bring in the lawyer to make their laws and defend their deeds, and there you have your civilization!

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

Living in a bubble as I said in a featherbed of privilege. That's why leaving home, leaving the prep school and going to the University of Michigan in the early '60s was a moment of awakening and to go to a place like Michigan and to see suddenly a world in flames and the injustices all around was quite a wake up call. I lasted a year and a half at Michigan before I dropped out and joined the merchant marines and I was a merchant marine for my sophomore year then I came back to Michigan.

I spent six years before the mast on all types of merchant ships, and naturally I feel well qualified for seafaring roles.

The story of the merchant is told by the marketer. They need each other, and if they get along, it's peanut butter and jelly. If they don't, it's oil and water.

Any merchant who advertises 'Honest Scales' must have been thinking about weighing them.

People run away from the name subsidy. It is a subsidy. I am not afraid to call it so. It is paid for the purpose of giving a merchant marine to the whole country so that the trade of the whole country will be benefitted thereby, and the men running the ships will of course make a reasonable profit.... Unless we have a merchant marine, our navy if called upon for offensive or defensive work is going to be most defective.

Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish.

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.

Instead of investing in the goods as they pass between producer and consumer, as the merchant does, the businessman now invests in the processes of industry.

The Merchant, to Secure His Treasure The merchant, to secure his treasure, Conveys it in a borrowed name: Euphelia serves to grace my measure, But Cloe is my real flame. My softest verse, my darling lyre Upon Euphelia's toilet lay - When Cloe noted her desire That I should sing, that I should play. My lyre I tune, my voice I raise, But with my numbers mix my sighs; And whilst I sing Euphelia's praise, I fix my soul on Cloe's eyes. Fair Cloe blushed; Euphelia frowned: I sung, and gazed; I played, and trembled: And Venus to the Loves around Remarked how ill we all dissembled.

Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine.

Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

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

Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.

What we want to do to monetize Venmo is to add more and more capabilities. Anywhere you see a PayPal merchant, you can click on that button and actually use your Venmo account to check out at that merchant. Then we'll monetize that transaction exactly the same way we monetize a PayPal transaction.

To kick off a merchant is to censor ideas and interfere with the free exchange of products at the core of commerce. When we kick off a merchant, we're asserting our own moral code as the superior one. But who gets to define that moral code?

I think Google is the most successful attention merchant - profitable attention merchant in the history of the world, most successful advertising-only based company - most profitable. They started a very idealistic, beautiful company in many ways, but they didn't have a business model.

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.

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

The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads.

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

How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.

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

Larry Merchant's just a commentator. He don't know nothing about boxing.

Many sections are taken up with political discussions and how the way of the ruler, the merchant, the householder, and the army interact with the Tao.

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

We have the flexibility to work with any potential merchant partner across the globe.

Next time you wish to feed me poison, warn me first," Loor demanded. (The Merchant of Death)

A prudent pharmacist often vends something for your complaint. But wine merchant you do this invariably.

There are three things that are not to be credited: a woman when she weeps, a merchant when he swears, nor a drunkard when he prays.

There is a big difference between The Merchant of Venice and a photograph of two males of different races in an erotic pose on a marble table top.

Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.

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

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.

I don't like Larry Merchant. He thinks he knows everything about a sport that he was never in. He walks around with papers and studies what he writes, he just pisses you off.

Second is the way of the merchant. The wine maker obtains his ingredients and puts them to use to make his living. The way of the merchant is always to live by taking profit.

I think Chris' favorite role was in 'Remains of the Day,' which was the Merchant Ivory film that he shot not long before his accident, a couple years before. He loved working with Merchant Ivory.

I was arrested 1965. I had come back from the merchant marines, got into conversations about the war. I had never heard of Vietnam until I was in the merchant marines in constitution square in Athens, and I picked up the New York Herald or the International Herald Tribune and there was my first introduction of the word Vietnam.

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

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

'The Merchant of Venice' is a straightforward, clear story, while 'The Winter's Tale,' as a general rule, is hard to present because there is so much plot.

I played Shylock in my school's staging of 'Merchant of Venice.'

I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.

I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory movie.

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

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

Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.

I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called. But you just take what's given and then, hopefully, down the road you can be more choosy and only do, say, Wayans brothers movies. That's my goal: to be more Merchant-Ivory-Wayans.

Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.

It is a merchant's nature to quibble over coins. It is how we become rich and buy satin shirts. The problems of who governs this area is one for another day.

The Prophet also said: "A truthful and trustworthy merchant is associated with the prophets."

I have a tailor now, I have a doctor, a wine merchant, a jeweller, a gardener, a cleaner, and a nanny. It was clearly ridiculous that I did not have a hairdresser. So I got one.