Top 191 Transaction Quotes & Sayings

If you make any trades during the year, keep a record of each transaction for at least three years.

I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects

If I do not know the will of my Father, and what He requires of me in a certain transaction, if I ask Him to give me wisdom concerning any requirement in my life, or in regard to my own course, or that of my friends, my family, my children, or those that I preside over, and get no answer from Him, and then do the very best that my judgement will teach me, He is bound to own and honor that transaction, and He will do so to all intents and purposes.

The most confident person in any transaction ALWAYS introduces themselves first.

Eloquence invites us to bring some part of ourselves to the transaction.

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.

Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.

Sex is like any other transaction, except that it is not like any other transaction.

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.

I like analyzing and managing large-scale transaction processing platforms, record-keeping administration, and brokerage trading services.

When computer systems cause errors, you can end up with The Dreaded NIGO - the 'not in good order' transaction.

What we want to do to monetize Venmo is to add more and more capabilities. Anywhere you see a PayPal merchant, you can click on that button and actually use your Venmo account to check out at that merchant. Then we'll monetize that transaction exactly the same way we monetize a PayPal transaction.

No matter what your circumstances are, whether you are in prosperity or in adversity, you can learn from every person, transaction, and circumstance around you.

The International Health Partnership Plus is addressing the need to harmonize development assistance and reduce the current waste, duplication, and high transaction costs.

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.

I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.

With private chains, you can have a completely known universe of transaction processors. That appeals to financial institutions that are wary of the bitcoin blockchain.

The Trump view of immigration defies our history. Immigration is a transaction that has historically benefited the country.

Lands' End has undergone three major changes over the past couple of decades. The first was the introduction of an 800 number, in 1978; the second was express delivery, in 1994; and the third was the introduction of a Web site, in 1995. The first two innovations cut the average transaction time-the time between the moment of ordering and the moment the goods are received-from three weeks to four days. The third innovation has cut the transaction time from four days to, well, four days.

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.

Digital assets, including bitcoin, could save small businesses substantial transaction fees and provide an added layer of security to their payment processing.

The credit/debit card transaction system is antiquated, expensive, and inefficient. There are over nine steps to complete a transaction from the time a customer swipes their card to payment processing, settlement, and when the merchant finally gets paid. Every step along the way costs both the consumer and the vendor in additional fees.

It's a misnomer to say you can criminalize one part of the transaction and not criminalize the entire transaction. For example in Sweden, where the law was passed in 1999. Those laws didn't actually decriminalize people who sell sex; they introduced new criminal penalties for the people who buy sex. Nothing changed in the legal status for the sex workers themselves. It's impossible for them to operate a legal business. When you criminalize part of a transaction, you're creating collateral damage for all those engaged in it. You are now making them work in a criminalized context.

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.

Every transaction in commerce is an independent transaction.

Washington, D.C., is the new Wall Street. No significant financial transaction of any consequence occurs without it.

Financial transaction tax raises problems of competition.

Charity is to will and do what is just and right in every transaction.

Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

Approaching people looking for something in return isn't a relationship, it's a transaction.

God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.

Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.

Selling - at its core - is not a business transaction. It is first and foremost the forging of a human connection.

The worst financial transaction you will ever make is selling yourself short.

When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.

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.

Harold, the young kids out there are not going to be willing to go to the barricades in defense of lowered transaction costs.

English businesses would face massive transaction costs if Scotland, their second biggest export market, used a different currency.

Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.

No transaction happens unless it is voluntary. It only happens if both of you think you win.

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

Love is not a business. It's not a transaction. It's not an exchange or something you get for doing something it's not a trade. It's a gift!

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.

In fact, a large part of what we think of as economic activity is designed to accomplish what high transaction costs would otherwise prevent or to reduce transaction costs so that individuals can negotiate freely and we can take advantage of that diffused knowledge of which Friedrich Hayek has told us.

As money, Bitcoin achieves two objectives; it's both a unit of transaction as well as being a store of value. The U.S. dollar, for example, is a unit of transaction, but it is not a store of value.

The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between earth and heaven.

A sort of hostile transaction, very necessary to keep the world going, but by no means a sinecure to the parties concerned.

Without respect, the subtle alchemy that binds an organization or that serves as the impetus for a business transaction would dissolve into mutual suspicion and hostility.

The first time you went to eBay, you probably didn't do a transaction.

In many situations today, you can make far more than the spread by holding onto the acquirer's stock after the transaction is completed.

I tend to regard the Coase theorem as a stepping stone on the way to an analysis of an economy with positive transaction costs.

When Berkshire buys common stock, we approach the transaction as if we were buying into a private business.

I have confidence that the government of Luxembourg will not make any decision that frustrates this transaction.

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?

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.

"Free markets" is a very general term. There are all sorts of problems that will emerge. Free markets work best when the transaction between two individuals affects only those individuals. Most often, a transaction between you and me affects a third party. That is the source of all problems for government. That is the source of all pollution problems, of the inequality problem. This reality ensures that the end of history will never come.

Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time.

I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.

Debt - like sin - implies that one party in the transaction didn't live up to expectations, at least in the moment, and has done something wrong.