No, you don't owe me a favor
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No, you don't owe me a favor
receive anything in return for what you are willing to give.
Gene Stone • Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends
Although I appreciate the gesture, I’m not The Godfather! My help doesn’t come with strings attached. If I take the time to do something for you, it’s not because I’m a matcher looking for something in return. It’s because I aspire to be a giver—I enjoy being helpful. My effort to support you means that I think highly of you and might even care abo... See more
Superhuman
For this reason alone, we may be willing to agree to perform a larger favor than the one we received, merely to relieve ourselves of the psychological burden of debt. A Japanese proverb makes this point eloquently: “There’s nothing more expensive than that which comes for free.”
Robert B. Cialdini • Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion
But if you give me something, that’s different because now I kind of feel like I owe you one. It could be a feeling of obligation, or you could say it’s a feeling of gratitude