Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.
In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.
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.
Honor is the reward of virtue.
When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.
We rise in glory as we sink in pride.