Transactions Quotes - Page 7

Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.

Gary Hamel

Luxury, Innovation, Company

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I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of such momentous importance [as the framing of the Constitution] ... should be suffered to pass without being in some degree influenced, guided, and governed by that omnipotent, omnipresent, and beneficent Ruler in whom all inferior spirits live and move and have their being.

Benjamin Franklin

Moving, Government, Degrees

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

Honore de Balzac

Ideas, Action, Contemplation

Honore De Balzac (2011). “Louis Lambert”, p.75, The Floating Press

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[T]he first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character.

George Washington

Character, Firsts, Individual

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Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess

Irving Fisher

Historical, Promise, Banking

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We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.

William Hazlitt

Life, Fall, Passion

William Hazlitt (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”

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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

Unlikely, Sellers

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Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really - we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We are engaged in a sacred transaction of which we know only a little: the shadow, not the shape.

Julia Cameron

Dream, Art, People

Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.261, Souvenir Press

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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity, an opportunity to be polite, an opportunity to be manly, an opportunity to be honest, an opportunity to make friends.

Orison Swett Marden

Opportunity, Mind, Clients

Orison Swett Marden (2013). “The Wisdom of Orison Swett Marden”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.

Benito Mussolini

Thinking, Violence, Moral

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To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured, commanded, by beings who have neither title, nor knowledge, nor virtue. To be governed is to have every operation, every transaction, every movement noted, registered, counted, rated, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, refused, authorized, indorsed, admonished, prevented, reformed, redressed, corrected.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Law, Liberty, Titles

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Isn't it interesting that people feel best about themselves right before they go on vacation? They've cleared up all of their to-do piles, closed up transactions, renewed old promises with themselves. My most basic suggestion is that people should do that more than just once a year.

David Allen

Vacation, Years, People

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

Warren Buffett

Investing, Buying, Common

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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.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Respect, Business, Organization

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.126, Penguin

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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

Eye, Skins, Handwriting

Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being”, p.16, Canongate Books

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It is easier to hide behind philosophical arguments, heavily footnoted for effect, than it is to admit our hurts, our confusions, our loves, and our passions in the marketplace of life's heartfelt transactions.

Ravi Zacharias

Love, Hurt, Philosophy

FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Aug 27, 2013

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The Samaritan woman grasped what He said with fervor that came from an awareness of her real need. The transaction was fascinating. She has come with a buket. He sent her back with a spring of living water. She had come as a reject. He sent her back being accepted by God Himself. She came wounded. He sent her back whole. She came laden with questions. He sent her back as a source for answers. She came living a life of quiet desperation. She ran back overflowing with hope. The disciples missed it all. It was lunchtime for them.

Ravi Zacharias

Spring, Real, Water

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Hedge funds are a very efficient way of managing money. But there are clearly some risks. Hedge funds use credit and credit is a source of instability. Transactions involving credit should be regulated.

George Soros

Risk, Use, Credit

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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.

David Graeber

Party, Expectations, Done

Source: www.guernicamag.com

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Since it is proposed to regard chemical reactions as electrical transactions in which reagents act by reason of a constitutional affinity either for electrons or for atomic nuclei, it is important to be able to recognize which type of reactivity any given reagent exhibits.

Christopher Kelk Ingold

Important, Nucleus, Able

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As piety, religion and morality have a happy influence on the minds of men, in their public as well as private transactions, you will not think it unseasonable, although I have frequently done it, to bring to your remembrance the great importance of encouraging our University, town schools, and other seminaries of education, that our children and youth while they are engaged in the pursuit of useful science, may have their minds impressed with a strong sense of the duties they owe to their God.

Samuel

Strong, Children, School

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It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.

Patrick Collison

Advertising Business, Wells, Devices

"How Stripe Plans To Make Mobile Pay" by Owen Thomas, www.businessinsider.com. March 21, 2013.

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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

Loyalty, Different, World

"Q&A With Mindy Grossman". Interview with Jordan Saniuk, footwearnews.com. January 11, 2010.

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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

Party, Reality, Government

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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

Girl, Way, Return

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