Quotes About Barter

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

If I'd had a magic ejector seat when I went to Zaire, which is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, I would have pressed it multiple times. I felt totally out of my depth. I had no money and there was precious little infrastructure so I had to barter to survive.

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

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

Actually, no money would change hands because ours is a barter economy. The victim would take a credit slip through the door to the warehouse, and Ma the Grub would stare at it in disbelief and scream out to Fang. "Madman! Your lunatic generosity will drive us into bankruptcy! Who will feed your starving brats when we are reduced to tattered cloaks and begging bowls?" Then he would honor the credit slip with goods that had been marked up by 600 percent.

One could specialize in a certain skill and then trade the products of that skill for other goods.

If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.

The Hope & Glory would carry forty cases of muskets, 32,000 gunflints, coral necklaces, Aphrikan prints, bead jewellery, quills, papyrus, household objects such as kettles and musical instruments such as the talking drum, with which to barter for livestock. My host joked that the guns would encourage the Europanes to start more wars which would result in more prisoners offered up as slaves.

Where can I get some tat? I'd like to trade it in.

I trade musical favours like cattle. I can't remember the last time I did a remix for actual money. For me, I try and get a good swap.

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

One time they traded me for seven horses. Seven stunt horses.

We have the three As instead: allies, aides and acquaintances. Or in other words: those we barter with, those we buy and those we acknowledge because it suits us to do so

Money serves only to facilitate the transmission of these useful things from one to another

God is not a bargaining God. You cannot barter with Him. You must do business with Him on His own terms.

Organisms sip energy, because they have to work or barter for every single bit that they get.

A team box was tied down in the center holding everything from climbing ropes to arctic clothing to chemical/biological protection suits, parachutes, dry suits, spare radio batteries, two million in gold coins for barter, etc., etc.; someone with an extremely paranoid and inventive mind had packed it. Aka Nada.

Trade is very old. In the state of nature, trade is something people do to their enemies. They don't trade with kin.

Nonsense. The sword is worth far more than that. I'll throw in a pair of penis.

There is all the different in the world between paying and being paid.

And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid.

Quid quo pro - you cant get something from nothing .

Everything has a price. The price, however, isn't always money.

It was like him, too, to love her and admit to it before he knew if she loved him. Maybe only mortals expected to barter their hearts.