Transactions Quotes
143 Transactions quotes by 127 unique authors
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Everybody loves to spend money at least some of the time - because everybody loves the stuff you can buy with it. The key to…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're…
— Nathan Myhrvold
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The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a…
— Nathan Myhrvold
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The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the…
— Michael Nesmith
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Payment systems are critically important for overall market stability. On a typical business day, U.S. payment and settlement systems settle transactions valued at over $13…
— Henry Paulson
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You want to know the way to raise money? Put a transaction fee on Wall Street, so maybe we can curb some of the speculation…
— Bernie Sanders
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The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as…
— Noah Webster
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A currency designed for long-term storage and investment doesn't do so well at encouraging transactions and exchange in the moment.
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Everything we do in the digital realm - from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction to, yes, making…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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He'd never had to make the adjustments and compromises other people accepted early in their romantic careers; never had a chance to learn the lesson…
— Tom Perrotta
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For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?
— Virginia Woolf
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To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable…
— David Foster Wallace
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You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. — I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it…
— John Adams
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What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this…
— Virginia Woolf
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A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying…
— Virginia Woolf
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If I do not know the will of my Father, and what He requires of me in a certain transaction, if I ask Him to…
— Brigham Young
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It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that…
— Jane Austen
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When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead…
— Jennifer Egan
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Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.
— Unknown Author
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Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.
— Honore de Balzac
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The Samaritan woman grasped what He said with fervor that came from an awareness of her real need. The transaction was fascinating. She has come…
— Ravi Zacharias
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It is easier to hide behind philosophical arguments, heavily footnoted for effect, than it is to admit our hurts, our confusions, our loves, and our…
— Ravi Zacharias
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