“Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all management of human affairs.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)
“No nation was ever ruined by trade.”
— Benjamin Franklin (unverified)“Commerce is a game of skill, which every man cannot play, which few men can play well. The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)