Top 100 Transaction Quotes
#1. Branding is about building trust and loyalty and extending your customer relationships far beyond a single transaction.
Phil Cooke
#2. A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her.
Virginia Woolf
#3. For every transaction, there is someone willing to buy and someone willing to sell at an agreed price, both believing that it's good value and that the counterparty is a little crazy.
Coreen T. Sol
#4. Love is a transaction, at least of emotions in the rarest cases: you love to get something in return.
Gabriel Chevallier
#5. Salvation is not a divine transaction that takes place because you are morally perfect, but much more is an organic unfolding, a becoming who you already are, an inborn sympathy with and capacity for the very One who created you.
Richard Rohr
#6. Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
Barbara Kingsolver
#7. There is a kind of transaction that occurs between a person and a place: you give the place something and it gives you something in return. In years to come, Hodel would know for certain not only what Nerchinsk had taken, but what it had given her as well.
Alexandra Silber
#8. On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned.
Lionel Blue
#9. Everybody loves to spend money at least some of the time - because everybody loves the stuff you can buy with it. The key to the pleasure level of any transaction is the balance between the pain of the payment and the reward of the purchased object.
Jeffrey Kluger
#10. A book being read is a transaction between author & reader, a sharing, giving, taking & a reimagining of the author's offering.
Mark Rubinstein
#11. An encounter with generosity can remind us that life always overflows our attempts to reduce it to a commodity or a transaction - because it is a gift.
Makoto Fuijmura
#12. Do not forecast where the temptation will come; it is the least likely thing that is the peril. In the aftermath of a great spiritual transaction the "retired sphere of the leasts" begins to tell; it is not dominant, but remember it is there, and if you are not warned, it will trip you up.
Oswald Chambers
#13. Because Nature always balances her books, the Sun lost some velocity in the transaction; but the effect would not be measurable for a few thousand years.
Arthur C. Clarke
#14. By saying that someone becomes the owner of something, we are referring to a market transaction, while by saying that something is a good belonging to someone, we emphasize the fact that it has been incorporated into the world of someone, of which it has become an integral part.
Michel Callon
#15. The transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement between the two the whole fortune of his works depend.
Virginia Woolf
#16. Vertical intergration is an organizational response to the contracting difficulties that attend intermediate product markets where trades that are supported by transaction-specific assets are exposed to hazard.
Oliver E. Williamson
#17. The worst financial transaction you will ever make is selling yourself short.
Greg Gilbert
#18. English businesses would face massive transaction costs if Scotland, their second biggest export market, used a different currency.
Nicola Sturgeon
#19. 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.
Don Lee
#20. Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader's eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin.
Ruth Ozeki
#21. An organization will tend to grow only when the advantages that can be gotten from directing the work of additional employees are less than the transaction costs of managing them.
Clay Shirky
#22. If you want to use your full amount of steam, you must close your valves and direct your power of generating mental steam toward one end. Center your mind on one purpose, one plan, one transaction.
William Walker Atkinson
#24. Harold, the young kids out there are not going to be willing to go to the barricades in defense of lowered transaction costs.
Murray Rothbard
#25. Sex without love is like a goddamn business transaction. And sometimes both parties feel as if they got a good deal, but that doesn't make it any less so.
Emma Bull
#26. The International Health Partnership Plus is addressing the need to harmonize development assistance and reduce the current waste, duplication, and high transaction costs.
Margaret Chan
#27. No transaction happens unless it is voluntary. It only happens if both of you think you win.
John Stossel
#28. Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.
Don Tapscott
#29. When the Christian praises and gives thanks to God, this not only pleases God, but it enriches the Christian's life with joy. It is a reciprocating transaction between God and man.
Rick Warren
#30. Your brand is a combination of a customer's experiences with your business at every touchpoint. Each memory, thought, impression, website visit, story, sales letter, social media post, event, phone call, and transaction contribute to
your company's brand reputation.
Elaine Fogel
#31. I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.
Honore De Balzac
#32. When Berkshire buys common stock, we approach the transaction as if we were buying into a private business.
Warren Buffett
#33. I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.
Jerry B. Jenkins
#34. Any business transaction - actually any life transaction - is negotiated by how you are making the other person feel.
Stephanie Danler
#35. Ronald Coase, in his classic 1937 paper on 'The Nature of the Firm,' was the first to bring the concept of transaction costs to bear on the study of firm and market organization.
Oliver E. Williamson
#36. We may talk about our religion, we may discuss marvelous manifestations and revealed gifts and powers, we may profess high ideals and noble values; but the proof of our commitment lies in our performance in the daily transaction of our life.
J. Richard Clarke
#37. A sort of hostile transaction, very necessary to keep the world going, but by no means a sinecure to the parties concerned.
Lord Byron
#38. Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're in the transaction business. They're wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy.
Nathan Myhrvold
#39. I have confidence that the government of Luxembourg will not make any decision that frustrates this transaction.
Lakshmi Mittal
#40. A transaction between joy and task-fulfilment is much more productive than between money and work
Priyavrat Thareja
#41. I'm looking forward to partnering with TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners. This transaction is a clear endorsement of J. Crew and the hard work and dedication of all of our associates.
Mickey Drexler
#42. The painting is always done very much with [the model's] co-operation. The problem with painting a nude, of course, is that it deepens the transaction. You can scrap a painting of someone's face and it imperils the sitter's self-esteem less than scrapping a painting of the whole naked body.
Lucian Freud
#43. We are trained to think that what goes into any transaction or relationship or system must be directly related, in intensity and dimension, to what comes out.
Malcolm Gladwell
#44. I think that any business that thinks that the transaction is 'you give me money and I give you food, next, you give me money and I give you food, next,' without understanding that people deeply want to feel restored is in danger.
Danny Meyer
#45. Sex was a happiness transaction. And rugby had given Linc the means to feel very happy, very often.
Amy Andrews
#46. You can learn more in half an hour's direct contact with a source of knowledge (no matter the apparent reason for the contact or the subject of the transaction) than you can in years of formal effort.
Idries Shah
#47. Sex that's planned like a business transaction is a turnoff for me ... Listen to yourself. Why even call it a fuck? Why not be clear and call it a seminal emission in a pre-approved orifice? (Eva to Gideon)
Sylvia Day
#48. Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.
Vironika Tugaleva
#49. Selling - at its core - is not a business transaction. It is first and foremost the forging of a human connection.
Bob Burg
#50. The great lesson of the Internet revolution is not that people never want personal service, just that they won't pay for personal service that does not add real value to the transaction.
David F. D'Alessandro
#51. It isn't myself that's important in this transaction apparently; the individual doesn't count much in the situation ... all of us are more or less pawns. We're moved about like chessmen by circumstances over which we have no control.
Theodore Dreiser
#52. If you'd rather be a chooser, enter a market or a transaction where you have something to trade, something of value, something to offer that's difficult to get everywhere else. If all you have is the desire to get picked, that's not sufficient.
Seth
#53. When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.
Len Deighton
#54. The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's, well, prosaic.
Patricia T. O'Conner
#55. When God breaks in, the only thing you can do is believe it or not. YOu cannot ask for a receipt of the transaction or a sign for the dubious. God does not offer to cover your backside.
Anna Carter Florence
#56. To be a mass tourist, for me, ... is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing.
David Foster Wallace
#57. Once taken off one task without completing the transaction, the mind continues to seek closure. Fight to stay focused on the task at hand.
Jeff Davidson
#58. The villagers considered it lucky to make the New Year's first money transaction with her because she was a prosperous person.
Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
#59. Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or not must always come out the worse.
Jack Vance
#60. We never realize the power of real love unless we witness or experience a transaction, because real love costs.
Eric Samuel Timm
#61. If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.
Emma Goldman
#62. 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
#63. 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.
Michael Nesmith
#64. Reducing coordination and transaction costs is at the heart of Lean. It is waste elimination in its most potent form. It allows smaller batches to become efficient. It enables business agility. Reducing coordination and transaction costs is game changing.
David J. Anderson
#65. Sex is like any other transaction, except that it is not like any other transaction.
Frederick Lenz
#66. Like the marriage contract you entered into, your divorce is a legal transaction. Treat it that way. Try not to let emotion, hurt, fear or anger dictate the circumstances of your discussions or negotiations.
Laura Wasser
#67. A typical medical practice is like an old-fashioned business which keeps all of its records on paper. It can probably track down any individual transaction if it needs to, but it's basically helpless when it comes to overall measurements of performance. And that's the big problem.
Mitch Kapor
#68. What is so terrible about transaction costs? On what basis are they considered the ultimate evil, so that their minimization must override all other considerations of choice, freedom, and justice?
Murray Rothbard
#69. Content is power in today's world, and if you can own that content, create it and make interaction more of an experience than a transaction, you create a different kind of loyalty.
Mindy Grossman
#70. If you make any trades during the year, keep a record of each transaction for at least three years.
Suze Orman
#71. You need angel investors to have some belief, and it wasn't a purely financial transaction for him," Tarpenning said. "He wanted to change the energy equation of the country.
Ashlee Vance
#72. Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?
Virginia Woolf
#73. The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.
Clay Shirky
#74. If you don't state a clear preference, then your drink is like a bad game of poker or a hasty drug transaction: It is whatever the dealer says it is. Please do try to bear this in mind.
Christopher Hitchens
#75. Charity is to will and do what is just and right in every transaction.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#76. An IPO is like a negotiated transaction - the seller chooses when to come public - and it's unlikely to be a time that's favourable to you.
Warren Buffett
#77. Your customers are judging every aspect of every transaction and rating everything, from friendliness of people to ease of doing business to quality of product to service after the sale.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#78. The larger the unit of capital present, the easier the transaction called emission of credit. Centralized lending of this kind (which is today universal) actively promotes the absorption of the small man by the great, the reduction of small property owners to a proletarian condition.
Hilaire Belloc
#79. You want to know the way to raise money? Put a transaction fee on Wall Street, so maybe we can curb some of the speculation and raise some money.
Bernie Sanders
#80. Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication.
Deborah Eisenberg
#81. Value comes not only from a transaction (revenue) but also from their role as marketers (referral) and content creators (retention).
Anonymous
#82. Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value; then you are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction
Wallace D. Wattles
#83. The most confident person in any transaction ALWAYS introduces themselves first.
Ronald Reagan
#84. COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.
Ambrose Bierce
#85. What's taking place during stress is actually much simpler than a transaction between stressful life events and you. There aren't two parties involved in stress. There is only one - your own mind.
Andrew J. Bernstein
#86. Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.
John Hodgman
#87. Due process requires some definite link, some minimum connection, between a state and the person, property or transaction it seeks to tax.
Robert H. Jackson
#88. The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor in the the whole transaction.
George Bernard Shaw
#89. It's become clear (to me, at least) that the entire credit card system in the United States is currently set up so that any one party to a transaction can reliably transfer the blame for an incident, dispute, or fraud to another party. The
Brian Krebs
#90. The first time you went to eBay, you probably didn't do a transaction.
Bill Gurley
#91. Eloquence invites us to bring some part of ourselves to the transaction.
William Zinsser
#92. There are two parties involved in every corrupt transaction, typically a government official and a business person. Yet those who pay bribes are often depicted as innocent victims ... The reality is that both parties conspire to defraud the public.
Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker Of Wallasey
#93. Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and further deconstructs this by negating the presence of a representative objective viewer.
Arnold Aronson
#94. Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.
Sue Monk Kidd
#95. The old idea of a good bargain was a transaction in which one man got the better of another. The new idea of a good contract is a transaction which is good for both parties to it.
Louis D. Brandeis
#96. Being a parent is not transaction ... we do not get what we give. It is the ultimate pay-it-forward endeavor: we are good parents not so they will be loving enough to stay with us but so they will be strong enough to leave us.
Anna Quindlen
#97. It is a rule that those who come into a Court of justice to seek redress, must come with clean hands, and must disclose a transaction warranted by law.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#98. God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.
Archibald Alexander
#99. Most people who are selling their mineral rights, this is a once-in-a-lifetime transaction. The people who are buying, the landmen who are coming in, do it every day. So there's a little inequity there about knowledge.
Mike DeWine
#100. have begun to despair that even love is like this. That it is all and only the transaction of agreement. 'I will love you if you please me.' 'I will love you if you desire no other.' 'I will love you if . . .' and so on and so on." I said it, because it was true.
Tosca Lee
