Arjun Rampal

As a child, I had no idea that I would end up in the film industry. My ambitions changed from wanting to join the army like my grandfather to taking up merchant navy as a career to running for India, and finally, investment banking while I was a student of economics honour. But during my college days, I began to get offers for modelling.

Indian Actor

Alfred Lord Tennyson

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

British Poet

Mickey Drexler

We buy and sell goods. We buy low and sell higher - that's what we all do to make a profit. But I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.

American Businessman

Charles Sturt

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

Australian Explorer

Julie Wainwright

You have to have a unique product that Amazon just can't source. It's all about the product. Why is it important? Why is it different? Amazon are not merchants. They are technology platform guys.

American Businesswoman

Thomas Jefferson

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.

American President

Kevin Plank

The best merchants in the world aren't the ones predicting what's cool next; we're the ones dictating what's cool next.

Adrian Lewis

To tell you the truth I thought I was going to be in the building trade, I worked in a builders' merchants in Stoke.

English Athlete

James Cash Penney

There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor.

Charles Baudelaire

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

French Poet

Think of a merchant as part of the economy, involved in trade and making profit.

Economic Activity

Historically, a merchant was a respected profession, often associated with wealth and status.

Historic Profession

Unlike artisans, merchants typically do not make the goods; they trade what others produce.

Not a Craftsman

A merchant company deals in large quantities, often selling to other businesses.

Big Business

Merchant companies typically operate on a wholesale level, selling bulk items.

Wholesale

Don't confuse merchant companies with retail stores; they usually don't sell directly to consumers.

Not Retail

In games, merchant cards often involve strategic trading to gain an advantage.

Game Strategy

The merchant in the game might represent a historical trader or a fictional character.

Game Representation

Fashion merchants focus on selling clothing and accessories, often with a specific style.

Specialized Seller

A merchant may actively promote goods, especially in niche markets like antiques or luxury items.

Goods Promotion

 Wishing to be represented in the paintings they financed, these merchants preferred middle class subjects depicted in spaces that looked like their own homes surrounded by familiar objects. The maps that appear in Vermeer's paintings, for example, were considered fashionable and worldly

Why is Vermeer's "Girl...

 it's in engineering right now -- is turning an all four-lane system, half one-way into an all two-lane system, all two-way, and in so doing, we're adding 70 percent more on-street parking, which the merchants love, and it protects the sidewalk. That parking makes the sidewalk safe,

4 ways to make a city...

 In the next few years, more and more messages came, and he memorized and taught them. The verses he recited were full of wise sayings, beautiful rhymes, and mysterious metaphors. But Muhammad was a merchant, not a poet. Many agreed the verses were indeed the words of God,

The five major world...

 These encounters were often less than peaceful. But even through raids and warfare, as well as trade and protection of traveling merchants in exchange for tariffs, the nomads began to spread goods, ideas and technologies between cultures with no direct contact.

The Silk Road:...

 who really just needed a good accountant and to know who was trustworthy in the local community for paying back their mortgage. Well, the merchant bankers who brought the world to their knees may have been morally remiss, but they were cognitively very agile.

Why our IQ levels are...

 Trade was the unlikely impetus for the invention of the world’s first writing system. It started as a system of accounting for Sumerian merchants conducting business with traders abroad. After a few hundred years, the early pictogram system

The rise and fall of...

 to feed on the fish this process can happen on any coastline in the world provided there's enough heat from the sun hitting the surface of the earth however merchant contends that if there's a sudden increase in surface temperatures

Could Sea Breezes...

 the fine will be determined through a game of wits between the merchant and the king’s most clever advisor – you. You’re both told the rules in advance. The merchant will be allowed to discreetly divide his rubies

Can you solve the stolen...

 he was going to achieve his goals was to engage all the races he sought help from blacks Indians mulattoes mestizos merchants of the Seas Pirates of the

The impact of Simón...

 months merchants fell vast areas of kelp forest