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I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.

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.

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.

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

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.

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.

But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective.

I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.

Were you a merchant, would you settle yourself in a rich or poor neighborhood? You would not be so blind as to locate yourself among persons who would not be able to purchase your goods. So with nations with whom we trade.