Exchange of Value Quotes

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.

The truly unique trait of 'Sapiens' is our ability to create and believe fiction. All other animals use their communication system to describe reality. We use our communication system to create new realities. Of course, not all fictions are shared by all humans, but at least one has become universal in our world, and this is money.

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

Quid pro quo has an interesting history. It's originally a contract law term, not a criminal bribery term.

A world where nothing is had for nothing.

Every worker receives from society as much as he has given it.

It is never exactly clear what makes something a quid or a quo.

Nothing in life is free, you always pay in the end.

I think everyone that creates has to cope with the fact that people actually don't give you money because they like you, but because they get something out of it.

Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.

I agree that [marriage] should be treated like a business deal. But every business deal has to have its own terms and its own kind of currency.

Money can be exchanged for goods and services!

Give him threepence, since he must make a gain out of what he learns.

Put two Yankees in a room together, and in an hour they will each have gained ten dollars from the other.

If 1,500 people are gonna see me and they each pay $20, I want to give them everything that I possibly can. They just made an exchange that allows me to live a dream of mine since I was a child. And that's not lost on me. So I want to expend every ounce of power and energy I have.

The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn't use dollars. But those are all questions that need to be explored.

It took a long time, but I have learned that you just can't take anything you want out of life without putting something back in exchange.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

There is nothing really solid at the center of our economic lives. There are only the stories we tell one another, the promises we make, the shared views about the future.

I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!

Lots of deals happen in situations that aren't 'pure work.'

Popularity isn't just something that happens. You have to give something in exchange for it, and that's the dangerous part of the process.

I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.

I think that's been really the key, the idea of trying to harness social capital for selling purposes. That we've let this happen so easily without clearly getting something in exchange is kind of amazing to me.