The ultimate benefit of trade is not the generating of economic surpluses but the more efficient allocation of economic resources.
My last two years at Buffalo, I've had so many trade requests. Rumors every year.
I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.
I came into the league traded. So I'm not the only person that goes through trade rumors each year.
But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988.
As a professional athlete, the small print says there could be a trade at some point in your career. Sometimes expected, sometimes not. You have to be able to handle that.
I'd often wondered what would I do if I were ever traded, because it happened many, many times.
No man is any the worse off because another acquires wealth by trade, or by the exercise of a profession; on the contrary, he cannot have acquired his wealth except by benefiting others to the extent of what they considered to be its value.
You get traded. It happens. It's part of the business.
If I get traded, I get traded. It's a part of the business.
Midseason trades are hard.
Trade carried by sea has grown fourfold since 1970 and is still growing. In 2011, the 360 commercial ports of the United States took in international goods worth $1.73 trillion, or eighty times the value of all U.S. trade in 1960.
Each dollar Mexico exports to the U.S. has a content of American production of 40¢.
It's not very wise to keep a player who has just one year left on his contract and really wants to leave.
There have been few players that haven't been traded over the years in the NBA.
Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.
Wee must ever observe this rule; to sell more to strangers yearly than wee consume of theirs in value
Hee that learnes a trade hath a purchase made.
I've seen where teams pay to get a player, like when Los Angeles paid to get Wayne Gretzky.
I don't want to give up multiple draft picks for a rental player who is going to be our ninth man.
That's a great trade. I'd trade myself for Kevin Garnett.
The problem with trading dominant players of that size is you never get in return what you've bargained away.
I don't know why you would trade a stud pitcher.
One time they traded me for seven horses. Seven stunt horses.
The Giants are looking for a trade but I don't think Atlanta wants to depart with a quality player.
