Randy Pitchford Quotes

Money was invented for a reason. We've seen people try to use beans, etc. and it doesn't work.

I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.

The people demanded gunpowder for every thing. If we had possessed any quantity of that article, we should have got on well, for here it is of great value. On our return, near this spot we found a good-sized fowl was sold for a single charge of gunpowder. Next to that, English calico was in great demand.

Now, Gold and Silver contribute very little in their own nature to our Lives, for which all Earthly Things seem to have been created. Yet Men, as if they would make Nature asham'd of this, have agreed to make those Metals of equal vaue to all other things, to make 'em the Price and Measrue of all, and the Instruments of changing and exchanging whatever can be found good in this World.

We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns and tobacco in return.

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.

Money is not, properly speaking, one of the subjects of commerce; but only the instrument which men have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another

Nothing of value is free.

The thing to do is to buy and sell.

Music, photography, media, film - it's all going to be free on the Internet. We have to accept it.

I do not think anything should be given for free. Everything has a price attached to it.

A cat for a hat, or a hat for a cat. But nothing for nothing.

Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it.

No trade will be made unless they want the thing more than they want their money.

A cent is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. Its value is in the necessities of the animal man. It is so much warmth, so much bread, so much water, so much land.

… a reasonable price to pay

Money was of no value whatever. Gold is quite unknown; it is thought to be brass; trade is carried on by barter alone. The people know nothing of money.

The Practice of most Trading Nations confirms, that Paper is more Qualified for the Use of Money, than Silver; providing it have a Value

What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

Everyone has a price, the important thing is to find out that price

Even money has a price.

In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.

When I was a kid, I reckoned things in Hershey bars. Is this worth three Hershey bars to me?

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

I was always pretty good with making deals. When I was in sixth grade, when Pokemon cards were hot, I might have started with, like, three or four cards, and then at the end of the year, through trading with my friends and everything, I ended up with the biggest card collection in my school.