A Meaningful Life

Generally when you are in business you think about trading in terms of money. The reality however is that it’s time your are trading. You buy time, you sell time. You buy and sell it to do things or build things. For example you need to sell a car. It can be quantified in time just as much as it can be in dollars. The salesman spends 8 hours on average selling a car at $20 per hour pay say. You, being the Dealer Principal could have sold the car yourself but then you would have to hire someone into your role at $40 per hour. So you bought time at $20 rather than $40. So time in this case is the primary trading commodity and money is merely the quantitative realisation of time well traded. Trade in time and money will follow.