Exchange of Services Quotes

Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate.

When we aid a country, we must have a minimum in return.

I hope I use them more than they use me.

At the end of the day, when you get a sponsor, it's a working relationship. So anyone I get involved with, I want it to be a working relationship where I'm generally trying to help them and they're generally trying to help me.

Whose bread I eat, his song I sing.

Money performs but a momentary function … when the transaction is finally closed, it will always be found, that one kind of commodity has been exchanged for another

I don't get what my signature is supposed to mean if we haven't had some kind of exchange.

If I slip up and receive a good gift, I will not have given a good gift. This is probably a natural law that affects us all and needs a name. The Gift Reciprocal Law.

Favors granted always become defined as rights.

You save my face this afternoon and I’ll save your face tomorrow.

Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.

I am convinced that most companies don't maximize their barter possibilities. Instead of aggressively reducing costs by trading their services with those of their suppliers, they seem content to pay top dollar for everything.

The universal basis of co-operation is the proportioning of benefits received to services rendered.

In the past, I never gave money to my children when they were young in return for nothing. When one of them approached me to give them cash, I asked them to do some work in exchange for it.

If you tweet for me, I'll tweet for you.

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.

Countries trade with one another for the same reasons that individuals, businesses, and regions do: to exploit their comparative advantages.