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“Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as a tool of state aggrandizement, in which the private parties are stand-ins for governmental interests.”

Two States Interest Party Willing Tools Function Trade Scales Goods Textbooks Sellers Buyers Large Scale Private Parts

Author:Charles C. Mann

“I'm known in the trade as Litigiousness because, which means to say I'm willing to pull people into court straight away, no messing, thank you.”

People Mean Known Willing Trade Court

Author:Jimmy Savile

“Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are people who don't have the money to invest in better food, but perhaps they have the time. There's a trade-off: The more time you're willing to put into food preparation, the less money you have to spend.”

People Willing Amount Trade Incredibles Tricks Preparation More Time Ingredients Nutrition Peasants Ingenious Cuisine Small Amounts Trade Offs

Author:Michael Pollan

“In an age in which economists take for granted that people equate well-being with consumption, increasing numbers of people seem willing to trade certain freedoms and material comforts for a sense of immutable order and the rapture of faith.”

People Wells Seems Age Certain Order Numbers Willing Materials Comfort Trade Granted Well Being Consumption Economist Rapture

Book:The Future in Plain Sight: Nine Clues to the Coming Instability

Source: The Future in Plain Sight: Nine Clues to the Coming Instability

“J.P. Morgan once had a friend who was so worried about his stock holdings that he could not sleep at night. The friend asked, 'What should I do about my stocks?' Morgan replied, 'Sell down to your sleeping point' Every investor must decide the trade-off he or she is willing to make between eating well and sleeping well. High investment rewards can only be achieved at the cost of substantial risk-taking. So what is your sleeping point? Finding the answer to this question is one of the most important investment steps you must take.”

Should Wells Important Night Sleep Answers Steps Risk Willing Cost Findings Eating Trade Sells Investment Rewards Worried Investors Should I Risk-taking Trade Offs Eating Well

Author:Burton Malkiel

“We're perfectly willing to trade away a big payoff for a certain payoff.”

Bigs Certain Willing Trade Payoff

Author:Warren Buffett

“Those willing to trade freedom for certainty are certain to find the cure worse than the ailment.”

Certain Willing Trade Cures Certainty Ailments

Author:Richard Paul Evans

“I wonder why anyone would hesitate to be generous with their writing. I mean, if you really want to make a living, go to Wall Street and trade oil futures ... We're writers. We're doing something that is inherently a generous act. We're exposing ourselves to the muse and to the things that frighten us. Why do that if you're not willing to be generous? And paradoxically, almost ironically, it turns out that the more generous you are, the more money you make. But that's secondary. For me, the privilege of being generous is why I get to do this.”

Ifs Want Writing Mean Turns Wonder Streets Willing Wall Trade Privilege Oil Generous More Money Muse Exposing Being Generous

Author:Seth Godin

“The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.”

People Needs Understanding Leadership Party Millions Trouble Streets Produce Willing Europe Trade Unions Britain Labour Eastern Philippines Labour Party Eastern Europe Trade Unions

Author:Arthur Scargill