Quotes About Transaction

In the not-too-distant future, commerce is just going to be commerce. It won't be online commerce or offline commerce. It's just going to be commerce. And that will happen because of the phone.

The idea of hostages is very deep. Becoming pregnant is taking a hostage–as is running a pawnshop, being a bank, receiving a letter, taking a photograph, or listening to a confidence. Every love story, every commercial trade, every secret, every matter in which trust is involved, is a gentle transaction of hostages. Everything is, to a degree, in the custody of every other thing.

Wolfe fluttered a hand. "It was distasteful to me, having to offer to take the money direct from you instead of through Mr. Helmar, but I felt you merited that consideration. I'm glad you contemn it as blackmail, since I like to pretend that I earn at least a fraction of what I collect; but the offer stands until ten in the morning, should you decide that you prefer it to this hide-and-seek.

One rule is this: that if the risk of a transaction is very great it should not be considered at all, no matter what profit it offers if it is successful.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

In any situation, your taking or giving of energy is what you are actually doing.

Pierre took his parcel and left. Now the shop contained only one customer.

Commerce is the agency by which the power of choice is obtained.

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

I got a horse for my wife. I thought it was a fair swap.

Money is the best rule of commerce.

1. Never give anything away for nothing. 2. Never give more than you have to (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). 3. Always take back everything if you possibly can.

You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely.

The key question in every transaction is whether or not the transaction contributes to the flourishing of each person involved, and this question can only be judged, from a theological point of view, according to the end of human life, which is participation in the life of God.

how interest can draw a film across the eyes, so think, that total blindness could do no more; and how it is our duty therefore to trust not to the reasonings of interested men, or to their way of colouring a transaction. William Wilberforce, 12th May 1789, Against the slave trade

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Online ads might be annoying, but so is the cashier at your bookstore. But you probably never told yourself: "I want these books and magazines, but that payment part is really annoying… It's an interruption in my day to stand in line and take out my credit card. So I'll just take all the books I wanted and walk out the store without the annoying part!".

Au moment où le sujet meurt, Satan propose son marché. La vie sauve contre une totale soumission. La promesse de faire le mal. On appelle cette « transaction » le Serment des Limbes. »

paled on the bizarre-o-meter, however, compared with what happened on September 30, 1983, when the roster of the Chicago Blitz and the roster of the Arizona Wranglers were traded for each other. Yes, traded for each other. It was, unofficially, the largest singular professional sports transaction of all time. Wrote

The final selling price of $67,000 was less than Christensen had paid to have the ship built

Turning a market into a commodity market helps make it really thick, because any buyer can buy from any seller, and any seller can sell to any buyer.

If you bought a copy of this book, you own it and can choose to keep it, sell it, give it away, or review it.

I think everyone that creates has to cope with the fact that people actually don't give you money because they like you, but because they get something out of it.

Number one, you can sell before you buy. I call it reverse e-commerce. You take a picture, you list it for sale, you sell it, you collect the revenue, then you go buy it and send it to the customer.