Quotes About Mercantile

That there is a code and standard of mercantile honor which is quite as pure and grand as any military code, is beyond question, but it has never yet been established and defined by long usage and the concurrent support of a large and influential society. The

Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.

It is the industry which is carried on for the benefit of the rich and powerful, that is principally encouraged by our mercantile system. That which is carried on for the benefit of the poor and the indigent, is too often, either neglected, or oppressed

The difference between the genius of the British constitution which protects and governs North America, and that of the mercantile company which oppresses and domineers in the East Indies, cannot perhaps be better illustrated than by the different state of those countries.

My love of humankind will be agreeably balanced with mercantile rationality on the scales of salesmanship.

The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political and mercantile speculations are more congenial.

The most damning and hypocritical critiques of his allegedly aristocratic economic system emanated from the most aristocratic southern slaveholders, who deflected attention from their own nefarious deeds by posing as populist champions and assailing the northern financial and mercantile interests aligned with Hamilton.

las grandes amenazas -del empobrecimiento cultural- no provienen de la circulación global de mercancías, ideas, valores y símbolos culturales, sino de otro proceso que acompaña la globalización, como su sombra: el fortalecimiento de poderes locales que, en muchos casos, recuperan tradiciones culturales provincianas imbuidas de costumbres religiosas y fanatismos étnicos, intereses caciquiles o corporativos.

arrived. Although human slavery was technically illegal, colonies were being raided for slaves—and that meant a market somewhere. Normal humans blamed heavyworlders; heavyworlders blamed the lightweights as they called them, and the wealthy mercantile families of the inner worlds complained bitterly about the cost of supporting an ever-growing Fleet which didn't seem to save either lives or property.

Querían pelexar e vencer. Querían loitar, conquista-la súa felicidade. Pero, ¿como loitar? ¿Contra quen? ¿Contra que? Vivían nun mundo estraño e irisado, o universo reverberante da civilización mercantil, os cárceres da abundancia, as trampas fascinantes da felicidade.

Though all the houses of Venice are strange and old, those of the Ghetto seemed particularly so – as if queerness and ancientness were two of the commodities this mercantile people dealt in and they had constructed their houses out of them. Though all the streets of Venice are melancholy, these streets had a melancholy that was quite distinct – as if Jewish sadness and Gentile sadness were made up according to different recipes. Yet

a federal government given land-use powers would be manipulated by the mercantile barons to their own ends, to the detriment of the common people.

achievement to create the first modern insurance fund, based on correct actuarial and financial principles, rather than mercantile gambling.

O mundo que Marco Polo explorou está perdido para a História de muitas maneiras, mas alguns aspectos importantes do retrato que ele traça são surpreendentemente contemporâneos. Como mercador, compreendeu que o comércio era a essência das relações internacionais e que ele se sobrepunha aos sistemas políticos e às crenças religiosas, que são autolimitadores

London was the heart of the greatest empire ever known; a financial and mercantile hub for the world; but it was also infamously filthy.

Sometimes my biography is interpreted as the upbringing of a French aristocrat. It was very, very different. We were a family of mercantile, immigrant Jews.

Business is but a means. To forget this, and to live for it and in it, as an end, is a cardinal and pernicious mistake, to which much of the want of elevation in the mercantile character is to be ascribed.

The railroad, for instance, was "an unnatural impetus to society," one journalist concluded, that would "destroy all the relations that exist between man and man, overthrow all mercantile regulation, and create, at the peril of life, all sorts of confusion and distress.

He had not come to the United States to prosper; revolting against the very idea of prosperity had been what had pushed him to America in the first place. Visions of gold-paved streets never lit up his dreams, and he was deaf to the gospel of thrift and industry; he preached, rather, that all property is theft. There was nothing in common between him and his more mercantile-minded compatriots, and he made sure to stress this at all times.

My clerk will discuss with you the list of new customers in the meantime. These hard times seem very good for business. People always seem to want money…' 'The price they pay for living in a mercantile society, sir,' said Wicks.

Speculation is looked upon as being so much more risky than other avocations cause its results are more sudden and startling, though not one whit more disastrous. Statistics show that ninety-five out of one hundred men fail in mercantile life. The proportion is not greater among speculators: quicker action is obtained whether it be favorable or unfavorable, and it does not take five or ten years' time to find that you are playing a losing game."7

Mercantile people in love see only benefit, but not truth.

The sociopathy of mercantilely, where inflation leads to the mental impotence of indifference in solitude, where infantilism is the basis of idealism. The brain becomes a call center of indifference.