commercial mindset Quotes

Second is the way of the merchant. The wine maker obtains his ingredients and puts them to use to make his living. The way of the merchant is always to live by taking profit.

I don't understand business minds. I consider myself an artist, and they just really don't mix.

I'm a true businessman.

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.

Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we are the expansion of that people. It is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping civility. The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession.

The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.

A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.

They were a strange and mercantile people, these Americans. One never knew what they might come up with next.

It's a very American thing that everything has to be a business. Americans think... I like America, or I would not be here. There are great qualities to this country. But this sense that everything has to be a business is sometimes overwhelming.