Value Exchange Quotes

Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.

If there is no price to be paid, it is also not of value.

If you're going to charge someone for something, you have to show them value for it.

Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value.

Money is just an idea.

Money does not pay for anything, never has, never will. It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services.

Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.

Relationships are leverage. If you give value to someone else first, you have leverage.

If tomorrow wasn’t promised, what would you give for today?

Profit is the celebration of service.

I have learned that you're only relevant to someone if you're beneficial to them somehow/some way

When you build relationships with entrepreneurs, they're not trying to optimize on price.

Money is life energy that we exchange and use as a result of the service we provide to the universe.

Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.

Money as such is, as Oscar Wilde said, perfectly useless. You can't eat it, drink it, shelter yourself from the cold with it, wear it, or make love with it unless deeply disturbed. In and of itself, it has no emotions, no mind, and no conscience. It doesn't put out flowers or have children, and it makes a lousy pet. It has meaning only when it circulates, and is exchanged for other things; and money doesn't do that for itself. People do that, using money as a symbolic token.

Whether they're paying for it or not is not really relevant. They're investing a significant amount of time in our content. At some point, commercial opportunities will materialise for greater percentages of that audience.

The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men.

Money is only important in a society when certain resources for survival must be rationed and the people accept money as an exchange medium for the scarce resources. Money is a social convention, an agreement if you will. It is neither a natural resource nor does it represent one. It is not necessary for survival unless we have been conditioned to accept it as such.

Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.

Humility reminds you that in order to receive value, you must create value in equal measure.