Quotes about Merchant
Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.
— Genesis 23:16
She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar.
— Proverbs 31:14
Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, scented with myrrh and frankincense from all the spices of the merchant?
— Song of Solomon 3:6
On the great waters came the grain of Shihor; the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre; she was the merchant of the nations.
— Isaiah 23:3
Tell Tyre, who dwells at the gateway to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coasts, that this is what the Lord GOD says: You have said, O Tyre, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’
— Ezekiel 27:3
Tarshish was your merchant because of your great wealth of goods; they exchanged silver, iron, tin, and lead for your wares.
— Ezekiel 27:12
Dedan was your merchant in saddlecloths for riding.
— Ezekiel 27:20
A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.
— Hosea 12:7
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls.
— Matthew 13:45
I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.
— Albert Camus
It is possible that a nation my be the carrier for the world, but she cannot be the merchant. She cannot be the seller and buyer of her own merchandise. The ability to buy must reside out of herself; and therefore, the prosperity of any commercial nation is regulated by the prosperity of the rest. If they are poor she cannot be rich, and her condition, be what it may, is an index of the height of the commercial tide in other nations.
— Thomas Paine
Wylie: If you don't like advice, why do you pay me? Stahr: That's a question of merchandise. I'm a merchant. I want to buy what's in your mind.
— F Scott Fitzgerald