A merchant is someone who figures out how to select, how to smell, how to identify, how to feel, how to time, how to buy, how to sell, and how to hopefully have two plus two equal six.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We buy and sell goods. We buy low and sell higher - that's what we all do to make a profit. But I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.
I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.
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.
I think a lot of times when people talk about merchants, it's almost a nostalgic look back at the time where the world moved at a very different pace, and information was very different.
Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
To guard and to deal with others' goods as one's own is considered as the mark of proper trade among merchants.
What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor.
For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
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