Transactions Quotes - Page 7

• A striking feature of financial service activities during the past few decades is that the financial transactions essential to the operation of the 'real' economy has become increasingly dwarfed by speculative activity.

  Peter Dicken

  Real, Past, Essentials

  Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.469, SAGE

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• Seemed to me important in writing about people to be able to describe the sexual transactions between them. It's - for many people it's the height of, what they see, of ecstasy and poetry is in their sexual encounters. And furthermore, personality - human personality does not end in the bedroom, but persists.

  John Updike

  Writing, People, Personality

  "Remembering John Updike, Literary Legend". www.npr.org. January 28, 2009.

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• Somewhere along the way, the idea, which I think was initially to get some fair transaction between people, went out the window. And what came in was, the most you can get and the least you can give. That's why cars are the way they are nowadays. It's just an erosion of all the things that were true and right about the original idea.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Thinking, Erosion, Ideas

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• [Television viewing] is a one-way transaction that requires the taking in of particular sensory material in a particular way, no matter what the material might be. There is, indeed, no other experience in a child's life that permits quite so much intake while demanding so little outflow.

  Marie Winn

  Children, Television, Littles

  Marie Winn (2002). “The Plug-in Drug: Television, Computers, and Family Life”, Penguin Group USA

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• I certainly do not lament the decadence of knight errantry, nor wish to exchange the protection of the laws for that of the doughtiest champion who ever set lance in rest; but I do, in truth, believe that this knightly sensitiveness of honorable feeling is the best antidote to the petty soul-degrading transactions of every-day life, and that the total want of it is one reason why this free-born race care so very little for the vulgar virtue called probity.

  Frances Trollope

  Believe, Knights, Race

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• The remaining revenue on the consumption of foreign luxuries to domestic comforts, being collected on our seaboard and frontiers only, and incorporated with the transactions of our mercantile citizens, it may be the pleasure and the pride of an American to ask, What farmer, what merchant, what laborer ever sees a tax gatherer of the United States?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pride, Luxury, Comfort

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• A rigorous doctrine of imputation is not only limiting but ends up doing a disservice to the nature of grace and justification. It makes the transactions of the gospel basically juridical. In the Roman view, justification and sanctification are a seamless fabric. It is more than a question of God simply seeing us through a legal scrim of Christ's righteousness. Righteousness actually begins to transform us.

  Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk

  Views, Grace, Doctrine

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• Selling - at its core - is not a business transaction. It is first and foremost the forging of a human connection.

  Bob Burg

  Connections, Human Connection, Firsts

  FaceBook post by Bob Burg from Dec 21, 2010

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• I don't need a receipt for a doughnut. I'll just give you the money, and you give me the doughnut. End of transaction! We don't need to bring ink and paper into this! I can't imagine a scenario where I'd have to prove that I bought a doughnut. Some skeptical friend...'Don't even act like I didn't buy that doughnut! I've got the documentation right here! Oh, wait, it's back home, in the file. Under d...for doughnut.'

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office if she condescended to plead the cause of tyrants, or to justify the maxims of persecution.

  Edward Gibbon

  Past, Tyrants, History

  Edward Gibbon (1826). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.18

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• If the relationship between you and your money is harmonious, regardless of how much you have, your financial transactions will be harmonious as well.

  Suze Orman

  Financial, Wells, Harmonious

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• In fact, a large part of what we think of as economic activity is designed to accomplish what high transaction costs would otherwise prevent or to reduce transaction costs so that individuals can negotiate freely and we can take advantage of that diffused knowledge of which Friedrich Hayek has told us.

  Ronald Coase

  Thinking, Cost, Facts

  "The Institutional Structure of Production". Ronald Coase's Nobel Memorial Prize Lecture published in Ronald Coase "Essays on Economics and Economists" (p. 9), May 2, 1994.

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• We've lost that very simple transaction that's so pure, where a reader can say, "I support what you're doing, here's my dollar. I know that you guys are gonna be watchdogs or keep the government accountable, so here's my 50-cent contribution each day." It's just so tidy, and I think so inspiring.

  Dave Eggers

  Simple, Thinking, Government

  Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. January 1, 2010.

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• For a small open economy that trades mostly with the euro zone it makes absolute sense to be part of the currency union. Our currency has already pegged to the euro since 2002. We don't have an independent monetary policy. We are regulated by the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, but we are not able to reap all the profits. Our businesses want to save the transaction costs.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Independent, Cost, Unions

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A UNITED civilization is possible only when human relations are balanced in all transactions which have to do with the distribution of the values of life which all men persistently and constantly seek.

  Walter Russell

  Men, Civilization, Value Of Life

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• We need to have a tax system that rewards work and not just financial transactions.

  Hillary Clinton

  Needs, Rewards, Financial

  Transcript: First presidential debate at Hofstra University, www.cbsnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• A writer is obviously at his most natural and relaxed when he writes in the first person. Writing is a personal transaction between two people, conducted on paper, and the transaction will go well to the extent that it retains its humanity.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Two, People

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• Debt - like sin - implies that one party in the transaction didn't live up to expectations, at least in the moment, and has done something wrong.

  David Graeber

  Party, Expectations, Done

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.

  Patrick Collison

  Advertising Business, Wells, Devices

  "How Stripe Plans To Make Mobile Pay" by Owen Thomas, www.businessinsider.com. March 21, 2013.

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• Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Prayer

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• To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind.

  Arthur Koestler

  Pieces, Honest, Silver

  Arthur Koestler (1955). “Darkness at noon”

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• Fellow senators balked at punishing Senator Alfonse D'Amato of New York though he was caught in a series of transactions that earned him the label "Senator Sleaze." D'Amato explained their reluctance as he defended his own behavior. "There but for the grace of God go most of my colleagues," he said.

  William Greider

  New York, Punishment, Grace

  William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Children, temples are places where, at least for a short while, the remembrance of God is kindled in our hearts which otherwise are totally immersed in worldly transactions.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Children, Heart

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• Writing a diary every evening before going to bed is a good habit. We can record in the diary how much time we have devoted to our spiritual practice. The diary should be written in a way that helps us see our mistakes and correct them. It should not be a mere document of other peoples' faults or our daily transactions.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Mistake, Writing

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• No transaction happens unless it is voluntary. It only happens if both of you think you win.

  John Stossel

  Winning, Thinking, Happens

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