The buyer needs a hundred eyes; the seller but one. – Italian Proverb
There are more fools among buyers than among sellers. – Proverb
This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given to those of us who dont sell anything to anybody. – Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Protection is not a principle but an expedient. – Benjamin Disraeli
The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. – Thomas Jefferson
The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other – Diogenes Laertius
