#exchange

It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#cheaper #exchange #floor #ground #look

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue. ↗

— Plato

#enough #exchange #give #gold #under

When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#cannot #certificates #checks #commodities #countries

The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#attention #careful #commonality #exchange #find

The idea seems to be to use the next treaty talks to strike a grand bargain: Britain will be helpful to those states wishing to establish a fiscal union among themselves if, in exchange, we can amicably derogate from the aspects of the EU which we dislike. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#aspects #bargain #britain #dislike #establish

I would never exchange my life with anybody else's. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#else #exchange #i #life #my life

Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#denotes #exchange #existing #given #objects

As for the long-term future: I am prepared to see in this a vision, not a mystical way but in a realistic way, of a population exchange on a much more important scale and including larger territories. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#exchange #future #i #i am #important

A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#five #fraction #may #minor #pawns

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#after #believe #con #corporations #death