Quotes about Exchange

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

It should be the other way around.

One night a century ago, when a screech owl was screeching in the woods along the shores of Walden Pond, Henry Thoreau dipped his goose quill into his homemade ink and wrote in his diary: "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life, which is required to be exchanged for it immediately or in the long run.

You are to pay them in silver for the food you eat and the water you drink.

Oikonomia is the science or art of efficiently producing, distributing, and maintaining concrete use values for the household and community over the long run. Chrematistics is the art of maximizing the accumulation by individuals of abstract exchange value in the form of money in the short run.

The end of money is not ease but the opportunity to perform more service.

I love being challenged and defending my positions and, when I'm wrong, learning from the exchange. It makes me smarter and better as a businessperson.

To give to God is to take from God's right hand and put that very thing back into God's left hand.

Life has no bargains. Everything that you get that's worthy of having has a price upon it.

The Divine Economy is automatic and very simple: we receive only that which we give.

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.