Quotes About Exchange

I've been traded before.

You get traded. It happens. It's part of the business.

People used to trade their guitars to get new ones; I never traded anything.

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

Anything commodity-like will be sold online. The world is going to trade commodities like it trades stocks.

It's rare to find an Indian who speaks Chinese. It's rare to find a Chinese who can speak any of the Indian languages. Neither of them at the trading level - I want to repeat this, at the trading level - can speak English, either.

Britain has always been at its most successful when it's a trading nation.

Over the years, the technology of trade has changed in response to advances in the ability to communicate. From its origins on the streets of Chicago, the Board of Trade moved to a building housing 'trading pits' for the open-outcry exchange by brokers representing buyers and sellers.

People are trading distance for dollars.

Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.

Old ideas of not trading because 'they won't open their markets to us' miss the entire point of allowing goods to be imported into the United States - because we want and need them and because someone here believes that the good or service received in exchange for our dollars creates value for them.

In fact, the recent increase in intra-firm trading enables businesses to shift their activities across borders smoothly, thereby strengthening the response of economic activity to exchange rate movements in the long run.

I have very little respect for the integrity of the trading on the exchange in most stocks. And I have particular disdain for the fact that the SEC has failed to deal with high-frequency traders who are doing nothing more than taking advantage of inside information, a buy or a sell order, because of technology advantages.

We told each other what movies we were currently watching and what books we were reading.

They say money kinda melts when you take it across a border.

One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country the American dollar will fall like a stone.

Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me--

It's hard in a monetary system to trust people.

The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality of the status quo, and all alien rationality is bent to It.

Camhanach, it is a bargain as old as the world itself." He chuckled. "Women want protection...men want a willing lass to warm their bed.

I send you an idea and you comment on it and send it back is a different process than us talking about an idea together. You lose the better idea that comes out of the exchange. . . . We underestimate how much we learn and read and take in of each other's breathing and body language and presence in a space. . . . Technology filters things out. . . . Breathing the same air matters.

We are not interested in dialogue for the sake of dialogue.

A bargain ain't a bargain unless it's something you need.

I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.