#exchange

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#ennui #exchange #hours #love #read

Every man lives by exchanging. ↗

— Adam Smith

#exchange #how-life-works #trade #life

I have heard your orators speak on many questions. One among them the so-called vital question of money which is above all things the most coveted commodity but I, as a Hindu, as a Jainist, in the name of my countrymen and of my country, would offer you as the medium of the most perfect exchange between us, henceforth and forever, the indestructible, the unchangeable, the universal currency of good will and peace, and this, my brothers and sisters, is a currency that is not interchangeable with silver and gold, it is a currency of the heart, of the good life, of the highest estate on the earth and it is the currency of heaven. ↗

— Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

#commercialization #currency #earth #exchange #gold

You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are, others will want to be with you, want to provide you with the things you want in exchange for what you're giving to them. ↗

— Harry Browne

#best #exchange #giving #others #owe

Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing. ↗

— James Buchan

#cause #classes #collapsing #devil #effect

When in doubt, exchange. ↗

— John Zimmerman

#exchange #when in doubt

The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#consists #determine #dispose #employed #exchanged

The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't. ↗

— Christian Lacroix

#conversation #e-mail #exchange #intimate #more

Trillions of dollars every day are being exchanged around the world in all of the financial markets. ↗

— Kenneth Lay

#being #day #dollars #every #every day

I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#actor #audience #between #exchange #feeling