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When in doubt, exchange.
Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
We (Easterners) are not like the Franks, who barter everything, even their most sacred feelings, even love.
A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.
Buyerarchy of Needs (with apologies to Maslow):
use what you have
borrow
swap
thrift
make
buy
Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins.
Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.
I trade in information, Geels, the things men do when they think no one is looking. Shame holds more value than coin ever can.
I come from a family of traders; my grandmother and my mother were very good at making money.
In a basic agricultural society, it's easy enough to swap five chickens for a new dress or to pay a schoolteacher with a goat and three sacks of rice. Barter works less well in a more advanced economy. The logistical challenges of using chickens to buy books on Amazon would be formidable.
Money serves only to facilitate the transmission of these useful things from one to another,
A man may beg, but a woman has to sell.
Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.
Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the where-withal: call it what you like, money matters.
Buy at a faire, but sell at home.
[Buy at a fair, but sell at home.]
Buy on the cannons and sell on the trumpets.
There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange
Money seeds, of course, grow money. Plant service and harvest money.
But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
People are trading distance for dollars.
There are some favors that can't be bought, and some kindnesses that should only be given freely.
Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.
Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store.
[Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.]
In spiritual issues
(by "spiritual" I mean: "pertaining to man's consciousness")
a trader is a man who does not seek to be loved for his weaknesses or flaws, only for his virtues, and who does not grant his love to the weaknesses or the flaws of others, only to their virtues.
Money changes people. This process is more commonly known as trading.
Selling is a form of serving the needs of others.
Use your money to meet the need of your neighbor
Real friendship, love, respect, and trust are all gained without a single dollar.
Trading sandy tubes of lip gloss and glow-in-the-dark barrettes.
There is no friendship in trade.
If you give to get something, you're not giving, you're trading. Your motives are second in importance only to your actions
Man, an animal that makes bargains.
Kindness is a currency that can cover a multitude of interpersonal debts.
Everything is a negotiation with you, Brekker. You probably bartered your way out of the womb.
Exercise your purchasing power as a consumer, volunteer and bring joy to those in need, and share your experiences, tell your stories, and inspire others along the way.
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
People buy from people they know, like or trust
People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.
a generous backer of your town's museums, schools and churches.
I trade musical favours like cattle. I can't remember the last time I did a remix for actual money. For me, I try and get a good swap.
If you buy the things you don't need, you will soon be selling the things that you need.
What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
We're taught to trade. We're not taught to give.
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
Cheap matter offered they to boyish wit,
Good traders trade. Good letter writers write letters.
I'm buying things for people I don't even know. I'm like Willy Wonka, but more manipulative. Imagine if Willy Wonka had a devious goal.
The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.
A loan is the scissors of friendship.
A man's own tongue may cut his throat.
The cage has no value without the bird.
In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.
Over the course of human history, many items have briefly flourished as means of exchange, only to be demonetarized. Now, we have demonetarized money.
The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
What great profit you gain from God when you are generous! You give a coin and receive a kingdom; you give bread from wheat and receive the Bread of Life; you give a transitory good and receive an everlasting one. You will receive it back, a hundred times more than you offered.
One summer vacation, I carried water to the town market to sell it, and I used some of the money I made to help a neighbour.
The world is a great mart, my Holly, where all things are for sale to whom who bids the highest in the currency of our desires.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade.
The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.
I, who ne'erWent for myself a begging, go a borrowing,And that for others. Borrowing's much the sameAs begging; just as lending upon usuryIs much the same as thieving.
If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not
As to thy friends; for when did friendship take
A breed for barren metal of his friend?
The way I look at it, everything is a trade. You acquire some money, so then you've got no financial burdens, but everyone wants your money and so who can you trust? Or you've got no money and you can trust anyone, but then you've got the worry to pay bills. Which is worse?
The simple exchange of legal tender for goods and services
was there anything more elemental, yet more beautiful? Money. No matter what anyone said, it was the answer to everything. When it came down to it, there was no human interaction that wasn't, at its core, a transaction.
Money is the general medium of exchange. It is the thing for which all other goods are traded, the means of final payment for such goods on the market.
for your marrying beneath us." Mr Bingley was shocked at his daughter's accusation. "Caroline, our money comes from trade. I worked hard, as did your grandfather and great grandfather. We built our wealth from trade. Jane
Mama gives you money for Sunday school, you trade yours for candy after church is through.
Serve a person in need.
Give generously indeed.
We used to be hunter-gatherers, now we're shopper-borrowers.
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
Be a thrifty steward of thy goods.
People love it when you give your secrets away, and sometimes, if you're smart about it, they'll reward you by buying the things you're selling.
Trust is the ultimate human currency.
Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment.
Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange, because in barter each commodity is still its own medium of exchange. But it cannot be its own or its own standard of comparison.
Generosity generates income. This works whether you are selling paintings or innovation or a service. Linus
At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.
You haggle like a crone with a codfish.
If you have to beg, then beg. If you have to barter, then barter. If you have to be creative, then be creative. Just don't be a victim of your circumstance.
Damoder climbed slowly to his feet. 'Buy lot!' he wheedled, 'I am poor man. I sell you cheap. I am bank-Rupert! Apparently the only things that could save him from bank-rupertcy were our dollars.
Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival.
Give out of your surplus; support someone who's lacking. Give out a little even when lacking; it'll make someone lucky ... Have no excuse not to give!
Trading gives you an incredibly intense feeling of what life is all about.
Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big ones.
Misers makes money their lord, but the spenders makes it their slaves and servants
Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash.
I steal from the rich to give to myself.
The commerce of minds was necessarily the first commerce in the world, ... since before bartering things one must barter signs, and it is necessary therefore that signs be instituted. There is no market or exchange without language. The first instrument of all commerce is language.
Spend money to make money.
There are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth, to whom interest and gain are what glory and virtue are to superior souls; they feel no other pleasure but to acquire money.
The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.
If you can't pay the bill, I'll pay it for you."
"Thanks," I said, and turned my head to the side. "But in exchange for what?
Lend."
"Lend?" Raquel asked.
"Yes, as in, lend me your self." He shimmered into Raquel again.
"Why not Borrow?" I asked. "Better yet, Steal?
What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?
I observed a man sourcing candle wax from South America and selling it to Japan. I thought: 'That's unbelievable. Talking on the phone in his office, that man made money moving candle wax from one country to another.' It really interested me.
[Her] idea of a fair trade--her lentils for your caviar.
Ever the pleasure of one has to be bought by the pain of the other, there better be no trade at all. A trade by which one gains and the other loses is a fraud.
Among the lessons learned in my lifetime is the ease with which corruption can enter high places in the mask of friendship. Sometimes the recipient is not aware of the barbed hook under the gift; often, he who gives may not know but be the unwitting agent of a craftier mind.
A transaction is a commercial favor.
But the fact that the word "chattel" has survived as the inclusive legal term for all movable goods, points, not merely to the great importance of cattle in primitive times, but to the importance of the notion of sale or barter in generating the institution of property.
When someone came to ask us for help, it was sacred. We did not even think twice. We helped them, even if we had only meagre means; we offered them arms, a little bit of money, and in occasion, men.