No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.
For the merchant even honesty is a financial speculation.
You know this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith is a good notion but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.
We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness.
A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.
If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience that's fine if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldn't! They shouldn't read my work!