When I call on a client, I come by cab, and I am sleek and clean and foursquare. I carry myself as though I've made a quiet killing on the stock market, and have come to call more as a public service than anything else.

Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.

His name was George F. Babbitt. He was forty-six years old now, in April, 1920, and he made nothing in particular, neither butter nor shoes nor poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.

If you don't want prosperity to falter, then Buy, Buy, Buy-on credit, of course. In other words, the surest way of bringing on a rainy day is to prepare for it.

Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.

Ill ware is never cheap. Pleasing ware is half sold.

If the deal isn't good for the other party, it isn't good for you.

It is no sin to sell dear, but a sin to give ill measure.

If you buy a bad thing you will soon buy again.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods.

Let the buyer beware.

He is no merchant who always gains.

When the market is brisk, the seller does not stop to wash the mud from his turnips.

Don't a fellow feel good after he gets out of a store where he nearly bought something.

Everyone lives by selling something.

Pleasing ware is half sold.

Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.

He who findeth fault meaneth to buy.

He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her.

A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.