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It may be worthwhile taking a look at those merchant banking guidelines for all activities, not just commodities. – Daniel Tarullo	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
In the long arc of time you're only relevant as a merchant if your customers love you. – Tim Cook	added by acronimous 9 years ago
Man is an actor who plays various parts: First comes a boy, then out a lover starts; His garb is changed for, lo! a beggar?s rags; Then he?s a merchant with full money-bags; Anon, an aged sire, wrinkled and lean; At last Death drops the curtain on the scene.* – Bhartrihari	added by anonymous 12 years ago
A traveler must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing. – Thomas Nashe	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this. – Miyamoto Musashi	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client. – William Seward Burroughs	added by anonymous 14 years ago
He altered the image of the Jew from that of rabbi, merchant, wanderer, to that of scientist, farmer and soldier. – Shimon Peres	added by anonymous 14 years ago

It may be worthwhile taking a look at those merchant banking guidelines for all activities, not just commodities.

– Daniel Tarullo

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In the long arc of time you're only relevant as a merchant if your customers love you.

– Tim Cook

added by acronimous
9 years ago

Man is an actor who plays various parts: First comes a boy, then out a lover starts; His garb is changed for, lo! a beggar?s rags; Then he?s a merchant with full money-bags; Anon, an aged sire, wrinkled and lean; At last Death drops the curtain on the scene.*

– Bhartrihari

added by anonymous
12 years ago

A traveler must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing.

– Thomas Nashe

added by anonymous
13 years ago

There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.

– Miyamoto Musashi

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client.

– William Seward Burroughs

added by anonymous
14 years ago

He altered the image of the Jew from that of rabbi, merchant, wanderer, to that of scientist, farmer and soldier.

– Shimon Peres

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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