Top 99 Traded Quotes

Lindsey Graham can’t lead us in any direction because he traded his moral compass for petty political gain.

A song is essentially an ‘asset’ after its creation and release because it can be traded, sold or rented. This makes it the backbone of earnings in the ‘music ecosystem.’

I’m saying that when a publicly traded company says something doesn’t make a difference in terms of their investments, I trust that they are representing those facts accurately.

Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change.

I traded all my ‘Star Wars’ toys for Pee-wee Herman toys. I wonder if I had a crush or him or something? The colors and the way that everything looked so cool or crazy just appealed to me as a young gay in Tucson.

When I got traded to the Lakers in ’97, Kobe Bryant was just a rookie.

I really started from the bottom. When I got drafted, I was not playing. I had to work my way up. Then I got traded, came off the bench, then became a starter.

We understand the realities of the sports world. Take Shaq for example, he was traded from here and went on to several other teams after that. But once he was retired, he asked us to retire his jersey. He wanted to be remembered as a Laker.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

The 10 or 20 minutes I was somebody’s mother were black magic; there is no adventure I would have traded them for.

Would I want to get traded again midseason? Hopefully, never.

It would have been a short career if I had not been traded to Boston. I was rejuvenated in Boston.

I don’t know anybody that takes less than market value to stay on a team that wants to be traded. That would be bad for business, right? That would kind of be really dumb.

Miley Cyrus followed me, tweeted at me. We started messaging; we traded numbers. She’s become like a friend. She’s super supportive of me being gay.

As a pro-business Democrat, I understand the obligations of publicly traded companies to maximize returns to shareholders.

I wasn’t expecting to be traded, so it definitely was a surprise to me. But things happen in this league so I just decided to take in stride and start a new journey in Milwaukee.

25 years ago, when I started in New York, I had the pleasure to cook for Andy Warhol. At the time, I could have traded art for food – I should have done so, because I could get his work for nothing!

Anytime a guy gets traded at midseason – a young player – it’s surprising.

Derivatives in and of themselves are not evil. There’s nothing evil about how they’re traded, how they’re accounted for, and how they’re financed, like any other financial instrument, if done properly.

The trust and the respect that the whole Rams organization has had for me since they traded for me has meant a lot so I would just like to thank them, the whole organization from top to bottom.

You’ll be on one team this minute, then the next day you get traded. So, I mean, I knew how the business works… It happened to me.

When Wayne was traded, I became captain. For me it really wasn’t anything – I didn’t do anything or I didn’t feel I had to do anything different than what I had been doing all along.

Being traded and moving teams, it’s difficult, especially when you have families.

Sadly, the Left is no longer liberal at all, for it has traded in individualism for collectivism, thus placing us into an oppression Olympics where victimhood is a virtue. This post-modernism – this cultural Marxism or whatever you want to call it – can only destroy; it cannot create.

Once the smoke of the market crash clears off, you know, the Internet will pick back up and go. Take a look at what’s happening to some of the big companies like eBay and Yahoo, the publicly traded stocks. You know, they’re all coming back up off the mat now.

If I were to be traded, I just have to be ready to play.

There are positives and negatives to publicly traded and private companies.

There were times in my career where I could have easily been traded, easily been given up on, and I think me making strides, me making a commitment to myself to come in and get better showed people what I could do each year.

Some people want to stay with one team but they get traded.

I mean, if you’re going to get traded, you’re always looking for a good team to play with.

Jobs, as such, are a relatively new concept. People may have always worked, but until the advent of the corporation in the early Renaissance, most people just worked for themselves. They made shoes, plucked chickens, or created value in some way for other people, who then traded or paid for those goods and services.

That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do.

When I was traded from the Oakland A’s to the Atlanta Braves before the 2005 season, a childhood dream was realized. I grew up a Braves fan just a few hours south of Atlanta, and it was hard for me to believe that I was going to actually play for the Atlanta Braves and legendary manager Bobby Cox.

I almost got traded my rookie year or my second year in the league.

Would I have traded ‘Homeland’ for anything else? No. Would I trade ‘Billions’ for anything else? No.

If you would ask me at 15 years old if I would have traded prosthetics for flesh and bone legs, I wouldn’t have hesitated for a second. I aspired to that kind of normalcy back then. But if you ask me today, I’m not so sure.

By high school, I had traded my oversized, thick glasses for contact lenses, but my eyesight was getting worse every year, smothering my childhood aspiration of becoming an astronaut or, at least, a pilot.

From day one, since I was traded to the Clippers, the team has been amazing to not only me, but to my family.

When you get traded, the first thing you have to do is self-reflect and think about how you can get better. It has only helped me become a better player and think the game through.

I had never been to the playoffs, and it was exciting. The fans went through the roof. They were excited about the whole team. It was great to be traded to a city like Chicago, which was a lot like Boston.

You want to live a life in which the things you have traded your hard-earned money for are quality items that really do uplift your life.

I’ve owned about 2,000 guitars through the years because I’ve traded a lot and given away and sold some stuff.

When someone needs copper, or wood or an ag product, and they invest capital somewhere to make that happen, and people get jobs from that, and that good gets introduced to the world stage and it gets traded and moved, the whole world benefits.

After the first time I got traded – I was in the bullpen warming up for a game in Double A, and I got called back in and got traded – that was probably the, like, most crazy it could be. And once I got traded, the next time it got a little easier, and I got traded the next time – it’s just part of it.

Art suggests stuff that is traded like money, that is kept in galleries and that belongs to the elite, whereas experience is something that everybody has in the course of living.

Not that I shouldn’t have been traded – everyone gets traded at some point. But the way that it went down wasn’t justifiable.

Everyone knows my career was catapulted to another level when I got traded to the Boston Celtics.

Getting traded to Edmonton was fine with me at the time. At the end of the day, though, you just try to do what’s best for you and your family.

I will never demand to be traded. Because if I do, then I’m at fault, I’m the bad guy, I’m the crybaby, I’m immature.

The Red Sox believe what’s written. If it’s written that I should be traded, more times than not, that’s what ends up happening. Look at the people who’ve gotten traded around here. It’s not their doing.

All told, these profit levels have put the world’s five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100 billion before year’s end. Yet, at the same time that Big Oil’s bottom line is going up, so are Americans’ energy costs.

You’re always going to feel disrespected because you’re getting traded. Evidently, you ain’t doing something right or you ain’t getting it done or they don’t believe in you.

If you’re the CEO of a publicly traded company, you’re worried about quarterly returns.

If you opened up every single potential drilling opportunity in the United States, it would have the effect of lowering gas prices three cents, maybe. And that’s because, of course, oil is traded on a global market.

You can’t fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you’re not getting paid for that song that’s being traded back and forth among millions of people on the Internet, you have to think like a businessperson.

Come on, when does it come to the point where your name can’t come up in trade talks? Willie Mays got traded. Pedro Martinez got traded. So what? That’s part of the game.

One time they traded me for seven horses. Seven stunt horses.