Quotes About Transaction

In the absence of relative equality - quid pro quo - a court might question whether there was an actual contract. If I give you a dollar, and you give me a mansion, our contract would lack quid pro quo.

When you check into a hotel, they don't need to know your name and address; they just need to know that the bill will be paid. People should ask questions.

I mean, if I were a guy, looking to pay a girl to wank me off, I wouldn't walk in the room and say, "My God, I smell hints of fresh strudel and nutmeg… quick, grab my dick!

I'd go out each morning and beg for six hours. I knew who to approach and for how long and exactly what to say. I was never ashamed. What I did was purely transactional: You made someone feel good and they gave you money.

Since nothing is free, to each his price.

Money is not the value for which goods are exchanged, but the value by which they are exchanged

Nobody really needs a painting. It's something you kind of create value for in a way that you don't with a company. It's an act of collective faith what an object is worth. Maintaining that value system is part of what a dealer does, not just making a transaction but making sure that important art feels important.

Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.

Every service had a price. Every object a value. If someone made you a sword, you paid him the appropriate amount or traded something of equal value with him. If a man saved your life, you either paid him the amount you considered that life worth, or you saved his in return. Until either of those things was transacted, you were in his debt. It was business. And if Balthazar believed in anything with religious fervor, it was that.

Nickel a pop, tops.

The next time a prostitute solicits your business, ask for the clergyman's rate.

For barter to work, two individuals do not need to offer things of equal value. Trade is often unequal, but still benefits both sides.

Fundamentally, other animals do not do barter.

Money is not metal. It is trust inscribed. NIALL FERGUSON

True barter requires that you give up something you value in exchange for something else you value slightly more.

When you accept money in payment for your effort, you do so only on the conviction that you will exchange it for the product of the effort of others.

Una transacción (en el sentido inmoral del término) no consiste en abandonar la comodidad personal, sino en abandonar las convicciones personales.

Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.

Here is a poem for you: The candy peddler is ringing his bell, and the child cries to its mother. Money becomes candy and candy becomes money. Money goes into the peddler's pocket, and candy goes into the child's mouth and is sweet.

ART VS. COMMERCE he artist stood back to view the geometric precision of his latest creation. Beautiful, he murmured, but will it sell? No time to examine the philosophic implications. Customers, buzzing with excitement, hovered near the piece. He wrapped up a deal quickly. This is business, the spider said with a vicious smile. It ain't art.

asimetría de la información, un estado en el que en una transacción una de las partes posee mejor información que otra.

Engañar es un acto económico primitivo: obtener más a cambio de menos.

Selling is a painful necessity, buying is what makes it all worthwhile.

El pulpero. A buena cuenta.