Richard Parks Bland Quotes

Exchange is creation.

Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs and wants. It engages the mechanisms of reciprocal altruism, as the evolutionary biologists call it, as opposed to raw dominance.

Money can be exchanged for goods and services!

We look at the world and analyze the world, and see what we can do that is in line of our mutual interest and also in line with, you know, what the whole world needs, because this is a world where we really have to all work together.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

Trade is nothing else but a Commutation of Superfluities; for instance: I give mine, what I can spare, for somewhat of yours, which I want, and you can spare.

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

Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.

We must understand that ties of trade bind nations in closest intimacy, and none may receive except as he gives.

We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.

… the woman whose husband makes twelve hundred dollars a year may have a couple of hours a day which she could sell in return for some service which she wishes to buy. There ought to be a reciprocity exchange in every town of any size where these exchanges could be arranged for. Nothing more than an extension of the old community way of living when everybody got together for barn raisings, and husking bees and each individual's special talent was called upon and everyone earned in one way or another what they got.

There is always competition for influence, but there are also opportunities for cooperation.

I believe that the more this hemisphere operates with a sense of common purpose, I think the better we'll all do.

To ensure stable and sustainable economic growth, world leaders must re-examine the international rules of the monetary game, with advanced and emerging economies alike adopting more mutually beneficial monetary policies.

We are not experts on everything. We are not capable of doing everything by ourselves. There are a bunch of other smarter people around the world.

I do believe that international trade agreements benefit both nations, always.

Trump sees the world in terms of a zero-sum game. In reality, globalisation, if well managed, is a positive-sum force: America gains if its friends and allies - whether Australia, the E.U., or Mexico - are stronger. But Trump's approach threatens to turn it into a negative-sum game: America will lose, too.

Integration is a give and take.

I want to use whatever resources in the world we can use, unite whatever force we can unite, ally with whichever partner we can find.

Trade brings freedom and well-being for all.

Government has learned a lot from the business world - and I hope that some companies will recognise they can learn from each other, too.

Philanthropy is all about sharing. If there's an opportunity to collaborate, we will. Collaborating just for finance is pointless. It has to be like a business collaboration.

Indeed, if all of humankind could cooperate, trade and work together as the nations of the EU have done, then there would be more peace, prosperity and progress on this earth.

Me coming to Tampa made perfect sense. I felt like they had all the keys I needed and vice versa. I can help the team out and also they can help me.