Investing Quote by Lewis Hyde

The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.

— Charles Eisenstein

“Markets express and promote certain attitudes to the goods being exchanged.”

— Michael J. Sandel

“An encounter with generosity can remind us that life always overflows our attempts to reduce it to a commodity or a transaction—because it is…

— Makoto Fuijmura

In a gift economy, the more you give, the richer you are.

— Charles Eisenstein

Unlike the sale of a commodity, the giving of a gift tends to establish a relationship between the parties involved. When gifts circulate within…

— Lewis Hyde

Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs…

— Steven Pinker

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

“Giving, not trading or selling, is the basis of success. The most rewarding thing you can do is just to give the world something…

— Russell Simmons

Markets and exchanges are merely mechanisms which reflect the temperament of man

— Luke Johnson

“People have to pay a price for the gifts they are given”

— Haruki Murakami

Most things of exchange require money. The most worthy of exchange require the mind, heart and time. It's a spiritual not material journey!~

— Bobby Compton

“If you give to get something, you’re not giving, you’re trading. Your motives are second in importance only to your actions”

— Jose Silva Jr