“It's much easier to understand the pricing mechanisms for exit transactions if you look at it from the perspective of the professionals doing the business.”

“In the vast majority of exits where shareholders receive a good price for their company, there is an experienced business broker or M&A advisor.”

“Everything in life has a price; each choice we make is a transaction. It's only with the passage of time that we realize sometimes much to our regret whether the cost was worth it.”

“It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul.”

“To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.”

“Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader’s eye.Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin.”