Merchant Quotations

After a few drinks, my mom would recite her lines as Portia in 'The Merchant of Venice' from her high school play. But I first discovered Shakespeare properly when I was about five. I used to look for the most complicated books I could find and pretend to be reading them. I wanted people to think I was smart.

We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.

I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast.

As many times as I've seen 'The Merchant of Venice,' I always take Shylock's side. For all the hatred that guy is shown, he has a reason to hate in return. He's treated cruelly. And it's tragic that he learns to be intolerant because of what others do to him.

After making my stage debut aged nine as Macduff's small son in 'Macbeth,' I had played a number of parts, from 'Twelfth Night's Viola to 'The Merchant Of Venice's Portia'.

Until now, getting a merchant account activated has been a nightmare experience for many small businesses. A merchant account is a crucial element for small business success on the Web, so the streamlined process Bigstep.com now offers will be a great help and value for these companies.

When we have a special event, our sales triple. If you don't do anything, business goes on as usual. It's challenging to do business in the Square. Every merchant is trying really hard.

Mischief just seems to follow wherever Dennis appears, but it is the product of good intentions, misdirected helpfulness, good-hearted generosity, and, possibly, an overactive thyroid, ... The Merchant of Dennis The Menace.

I am confident that there will be a solution that will please both the city and the merchant community that is the good news. I think we are close enough and aren't far enough apart that with a little bit of tweaking and a little bit of give and take on each side we can come up with something that makes sense.

I have spoken to every merchant around the square, telling them the square would be closed from 4 to 8:30 p.m.. Every merchant said he or she appreciates the opportunity to keep later hours and said their sales increase during the Rend Lake Car Show.

There is a great deal to be considered in starting a new merchant account, or switching from one account to another. Merchant account companies will send their representative to help you, but their advice is always slanted in their favor. Using an independent consultant is always the wisest choice.

We mentor the merchant on how to successfully sell online, and we think we have the formula for driving local shoppers to local businesses.

He was not involved in the negotiations with P&O to purchase terminal facilities in the United States. He has over 30 years of port and maritime experience, is a graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and is a former naval officer.

There are so many different fees it is difficult for the average business owner to sort it all out and determine exactly what they are paying and whether they may be paying too much. The merchant account companies purposely make their statements and fees difficult to understand, and that makes it hard for the average person to figure out if they can save money with a different company.

Retailers in our Merchant Network have found that customers that select the Bill Me Later option typically have higher average order values than those that opt for other forms of payment. This can be a particularly important factor for retailers of big ticket items such as jewelry. The added security and convenience of Bill Me Later helps retailers turn browsers, who in the past might have been hesitant to purchase more expensive items such as jewelry online, into buyers.

Parking, traffic, those are issues tied to urban life. It's not necessarily a bad thing, ... I don't know how a merchant can think there's too much traffic.

Local search listings typically rely on geography when, in fact, there are several other factors that influence whether or not a particular merchant meets a consumer's criteria. If a consumer searches for a kitchen contractor in LA, he'll have to sort through hundreds of listings. But most of them won't be relevant either because they don't do the kind of work he's looking for or they're not seeking new clients at that moment. Our goal is to connect consumers with relevant businesses that want phone leads. Our refined search results will drive more targeted leads to merchants, who then provide new revenue for Internet publishers.

Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client.

Well, actually, I had been working as a consultant to former companies of Enron, or predecessor companies of Enron and, so, I joined in 1990 to really start our wholesale merchant business.

The acquisition of Arco's Alaskan assets represents a significant step in our strategy of growing our exploration and production business. We gain a substantial position in the two largest fields in North America, immediately form a new production center and become a major merchant supplier of crude oil to the West Coast.

Merchant bar demand continues to draw strength from business investment while the previously booming consumer end-markets lose some luster.

Merchant banking remains an exceptional business for the handful of Wall Street firms that have remained in it. Unfortunately, the disclosure of merchant banking portfolio positions is weak, and forecasting these gains is at best challenging.

Well, I have an undergraduate degree, a couple of bachelor's degrees, from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.

When I joined the Merchant Marine, I went to Catalina for Maritime training. That's how I became acquainted with California.

Unlike a merchant association, this is not a voluntary organization. We need to be able to count on funding year after year. ... If you want something, you have to fund it yourself.

There are a variety of different credit card processing fees, and trying to figure them out is a difficult task for an untrained person. The merchant account companies purposely make their statements and fees difficult to understand, and that makes it hard for the average person to figure out if they can save money with a different company.

We're trying to build the most customer-centric company in the world, ... I genuinely believe the balance of power online shifts away from the merchant toward the consumer.

Even though we've taken a significant number of guns off the streets and made several arrests for armed robbery, when an armed robber shoots and kills a merchant we really don't have a lot of control of an incident like that.

Between the wars, I was basically a beach bum, and I wanted to find a way to work but not work, so I joined the merchant marines.

There will be quilts for sale, antiques for sale and the merchant mall with tons of fabrics, notions and anything a quilter could ever want.

The shortstop is like the point guard in basketball. Merchant was a key to every aspect of last year's team.

Rather, at the time, it seemed that all Merchant Energy companies were sucked down by the Enron undertow.

Our decision in early 2000 to invest in building a robust merchant business and effectively merchandising merchant inventory has paid off more quickly than we anticipated.

Authorize.Net did not suffer from any sort of security breach whatsoever. If someone commits fraud in a physical store using a stolen credit card, the merchant would never hold the manufacturer of the card-swipe terminal accountable for that fraud. In the e-commerce world, a payment gateway is the equivalent.

This is not a spam reduction measure. It is a way for a legitimate merchant to avoid getting a false/positive in an AOL spam filter.

A merchant may extend his dealings, a tradesman may increase his customers, but the teacher's income depends solely upon the number of his scholars.

Americans have bought lock, stock, and barrel the Jeremy Irons-Kenneth Branagh England. And it's fake. It's an absolute con. Merchant Ivory? Bollocks.

They had a really impressive quarter, across the board. Just about every segment was at or above record levels -- mergers and acquisitions, stocks and bonds, fixed-income, merchant banking. It was really just a phenomenal quarter.

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe is in the process of negotiating a facility with Rand Merchant Bank,

It seems that Sears would want a merchant running the business, and it would be investing more money into enhancing the shopping experience at its stores.

It's not an emergency for them; it's an emergency for every Merchant Marine veteran that's left.

I have none other than You, O Lord. In the Guru's Sanctuary, the Lord is found, O my merchant friend; by great good fortune, He is obtained.

I'm not your biggest crash-up merchant at outside centre, so Lloyd balances out the backline.

Investors have made it very clear that they don't believe the merchant companies really are going to continue to have significant returns to corporations. I think that's a major driving force that has had the ratings agencies rethink how they want to view these companies.

I do think one success of Northern Europe, which the United States came from, was its willingness to accept innovation in business practices like Adam Smith and the whole Enlightenment. It essentially made the merchant class free instead of controlled by the king and aristocracy. That was essential.

A good merchant has neither money nor goods.

'The Merchant of Venice' is a straightforward, clear story, while 'The Winter's Tale,' as a general rule, is hard to present because there is so much plot.

The Merchant City has some great venues for comedy. We want to show a bit of everything that happens in Glasgow's comedy community.