Quotes About Transaction

You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.

But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave.

You can buy life only with life.

Hagnon fixes a value to everything. It occurs to Alexander that the man would probably sell his mother for an obol and consider it a deal.

Always remember… that when you go into an attorney's office door, you will have to pay for it, first or last.

Life essentially follows a barter system because a person has to give-out something to get-in something else of the same value only.

Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and further deconstructs this by negating the presence of a representative objective viewer.

I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, 'Now if you'll sell it to me without the sales tax, I'll buy it.'

I've taken an option on it, but I haven't bought it yet

No trade will be made unless they want the thing more than they want their money.

Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader's eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin.

In fact, on Duveen's last visit to H. E.'s California mansion, San Marino, just before H. E. died, the host didn't have enough cash on hand to pay for the freight-car load of merchandise in the guest's caravan. Duveen accepted instead some Los Angeles real estate, a commodity of which H. E. was then the largest owner.

This was the largest transaction ever consummated in the world of art. Duveen had easily outdone the Soviets. There were twenty-one items in the Soviet deal, forty-two in Duveen's. Mellon paid the Soviets seven million dollars; he paid Duveen twenty-one million.

Giving up something for something else is commerce; giving up something for nothing is a sacrifice.

You can't buy it, but it has a price," said Oryx. "Everything has a price.

I was buying time. One is always buying something.

Always remember I never do anything without reason and I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.

Mrs. Charles Hamilton--one hundred and fifty dollars--in gold.

Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time.

An IPO is like a negotiated transaction - the seller chooses when to come public - and it's unlikely to be a time that's favourable to you.

How can this be your car? (Nick) Well, I wrote a really big check that didn't bounce to the dealer and then the most amazing thing happened…the salesman gave me the keys and let me take it home. It was like magic. (Acheron)

It's a gift. (Artemis) Nothing is ever freely given. (Acheron)

Everything we make in life, eventually, is sold for a dollar or a penny or given away.

I want my money back!