Transaction Quotes
79 quotes by 73 authors
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To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured, commanded, by beings…
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an…
— Orison Swett Marden
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The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between heaven and earth.
— Albert Schweitzer
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Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who…
— Samuel Johnson
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It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious…
— Victor Hugo
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Society is purely and solely a continual series of exchanges... And the greatest eulogy we can give it, for exchange is an admirable transaction, in…
— Antoine Destutt de Tracy
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To be sure, the use of force by one party in a market transaction in order to improve his price was no invention of capitalism.…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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Everything that happens in my day is a transaction between the external world and my internal world. Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything…
— Twyla Tharp
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A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend…
— Lord Byron
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The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was asked what type of earning was best, and he replied: " A man's work with his hands…
— Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi
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I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of such momentous importance…
— Benjamin Franklin
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It isn't myself that's important in this transaction apparently; the individual doesn't count much in the situation...all of us are more or less pawns. We're…
— Theodore Dreiser
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Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value; then you are adding to the life of the world…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice, therefore, I will engage in no transaction which…
— Napoleon Hill
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When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.
— Len Deighton
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When you give up vengeance, make sure you are not giving up on justice. The line between the two is faint, unsteady, and fine...Vengeance is…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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The painting is always done very much with [the model's] co-operation. The problem with painting a nude, of course, is that it deepens the transaction.…
— Lucian Freud
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You truly help people with the things that you sell. Once you are aware of that vital piece of information every demonstration, every presentation, every…
— Chris Murray
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The transaction reflects our disciplined strategy of investing capital in core businesses where we can leverage scale and expertise for competitive advantage. In addition to…
— Jamie Dimon
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Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.
— Don Tapscott
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