Famous quotes containing the words mercantile and/or business:
“What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)