Transactions Quotes - Page 2

• [T]he first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character.

  George Washington

  Character, Firsts, Individual

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• It is a well-known fact that in countries in which the national debt is properly funded, and an object of established confidence, it answers most of the purposes of money. Transfers of stock, or public debt, are there equivalent to payments in specie; or, in other words, stock, in the principal transactions of business, passes current as specie. The same thing would, in all probability, happen here, under the like circumstances.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Country, Purpose, Debt

  Alexander Hamilton, Lyndon LaRouche (2016). “The Vision of Hamilton: Hamilton's 4 Reports and LaRouche's 4 Laws”, p.10, Executive Intelligence Review

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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 is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it. Without the time and effort invested in getting ready to create, you can be hit by a thunderbolt and it'll just leave you stunned.

  Twyla Tharp

  Inspirational, Creativity, Effort

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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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. Unequal exchange is an ancient practice. What was remarkable about capitalism as a historical system was the way in which this unequal exchange could be hidden; indeed, hidden so well that it is only after five hundred years of the operation of this mechanism that even the avowed opponents of the system have begun to unveil it systematically.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Party, Order, Years

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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 which two contracting parties always both gain; consequently, society is an uninterrupted succession of advantages, unceasingly renewed for all its members.

  Antoine Destutt de Tracy

  Philosophy, Party, Two

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• Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess

  Irving Fisher

  Historical, Promise, Banking

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• Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, the (Rothschild) brothers conducted important transactions on behalf of the governments of England, France, Prussia, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Naples, Portugal, Brazil, various German states and smaller countries. They were the personal bankers of many of the crowned heads of Europe. They made large investments, through agents, in markets as distant as the United States, India, Cuba and Australia.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Country, Brother, Government

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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 chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Voice, People

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.306, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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 the pleasure level of any transaction is the balance between the pain of the payment and the reward of the purchased object.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Pain, Keys, Balance

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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 in the transaction business. They're wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Powerful, Creating, Cost

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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 trillion.

  Henry Paulson

  Important, Typical, Settling

  Speech on the "Blueprint for Regulatory Reform", www.cnbc.com. March 31, 2008.

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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 and raise some money.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Want, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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 in all social transactions.

  Noah Webster

  Truth, Men, Social

  Noah Webster (1834). “Value of the Bible and Excellence of the Christian Religion: For the Use of Families and Schools”, p.177

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• Our modern economy privileges pure profit, momentary transactions and rapid fluidity. Part of craft’s anchoring role is that it helps to objectify experience and also to slow down labor. It is not about quick transactions or easy victories. That slow tempo of craftwork, of taking the time you need to do something well, is profoundly stabilizing to individuals.

  Richard Sennett

  Victory, Needs, Roles

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• The ancient Hebrews had a word for this awareness of the importance of things. They called it kavod. Kavod originally was a business term, referring to the heaviness of something, which was crucial in weights and measures and the maintaining of fairness in transactions. Over time the word began to take on a more figurative meaning, referring to the importance and significance of something.

  Rob Bell

  Weight, Maintaining, Fairness

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• When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.

  Len Deighton

  War, Pride, Men

  "Eleven Declarations of War". Book by Len Deighton, 1971.

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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 person is removed from the flux of the everyday, which, of course, is where we miss him most. The quarantine around death makes it feel unlucky and wrong--a freakish incursion--and the dead, thus quarantined, come to seem more dead than they already are.... Borrowing from the dead is a way of keeping them engaged in life's daily transactions--in other words, alive.

  Jennifer Egan

  Missing, Everyday, Alive

  "Dealing with the Dead" by Jennifer Egan, www.newyorker.com. October 11, 2010.

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• Sometimes I would ride with my daughter in the car to go make transactions.  A couple of times me, her and my baby mother would be in the car and you know we would kind of be riding dirty.  So like I said, again man, I was very naïve.

  Nelly

  Daughter, Mother, Baby

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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 treated.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Party, Two, Cynical

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair (Diversion Classics)”, p.160, Diversion Books

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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 of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Holy Places, Morality

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

  Honore de Balzac

  Ideas, Action, Contemplation

  Honore De Balzac (2011). “Louis Lambert”, p.75, The Floating Press

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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 with a buket. He sent her back with a spring of living water. She had come as a reject. He sent her back being accepted by God Himself. She came wounded. He sent her back whole. She came laden with questions. He sent her back as a source for answers. She came living a life of quiet desperation. She ran back overflowing with hope. The disciples missed it all. It was lunchtime for them.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Spring, Real, Water

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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 passions in the marketplace of life's heartfelt transactions.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Love, Hurt, Philosophy

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Aug 27, 2013

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• Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader’s eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Eye, Skins, Handwriting

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being”, p.16, Canongate Books

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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 does not benefit all whom it affects.

  Napoleon Hill

  Long, Justice, Doe

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.54, Penguin

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