Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.
I have learned that you're only relevant to someone if you're beneficial to them somehow/some way
Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.
Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.
Most of what we do is software, Internet, and mobile. A fair amount of that is transactional.
The real difference between relationship politics and transactional politics is loyalty. [Barack] Obama doesn't seem to expect it.
Bargaining has neither friends nor relations.
For the most part, Hollywood is very transactional. People want to make movies and television shows.
The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.]
Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.
What am I a prostitute? Am I your prostitute? You can't prostitute me.
