To guard and to deal with others' goods as one's own is considered as the mark of proper trade among merchants.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
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.
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.
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.
Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
Trade is a communication of cultures and values.
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.
Taking stock of what you own, when done correctly and thoroughly, helps dampen the urge to shop frivolously.
One of the market's virtues, and the reason it enables so much peaceful interaction and cooperation among such a great variety of peoples, is that it demands of its participants only that they observe a relatively few basic principles, among them honesty, the sanctity of contracts, and respect for private property.
Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely vital, goods is prohibited.