Overpay Quotes

#1. Moneyball. As the character played
by Jonah Hill argues convincingly to Brad Pitt's character,
baseball teams often overpay for young, untested talent or big
name players because they don't know how else to set an accurate price.

Grewal

#2. Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, as long as money will last to buy it.

Henry Kravis

#3. Doing ventures is great - I'm talking economics now - if you've got a rising market. It's wonderful. If I hadn't got HKT, I would have been just as happy. Because there's a price for everything. And to overpay for something is awful.

Richard Li

#4. Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts.

Blaise Pascal

#5. To the extent that people overpay as a result of the Libor manipulation, they should be able to get their money back. Individuals who have mortgages, pension funds who had pensioner investments - whoever was ripped off is entitled to get their money back.

Peter Welch

#6. Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

Bill Gates

#7. I always overpay or overtip when I'm upset.

Sue Kaufman

#8. Overpay good baby-sitters.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#9. There's just not a lot of inventory, and to find a shortstop or a catcher, or a centerfielder, that you think that could stay at those positions ... they're very hard to acquire. Sometimes you have to overpay for them, because of that lack of inventory.

Kevin Towers

#10. It's almost impossible to overpay the truly extraordinary CEO ... but the species is rare.

Warren Buffett

#11. Always overpay your taxes.That way you'll get a refund.

Meyer Lansky

#12. I'm happy of being in Real Madrid ... I've fulfilled my dream.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#13. Most men think graft a sporadic evil, breaking out here and there, with no connection between outbreaks. I shared the same opinion, but very soon I discovered that the graft in the cities always leads to the graft in the State.

Lincoln Steffens

#14. How we see ourselves and what we base our worth on are primary motivators throughout life.

Alan E. Nelson

#15. I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain.

John Elway

#16. I'm always writing. There is always a story brewing in my head.

Mel Gibson

#17. Is the buying-your-own-drinks thing what you use to give guys the polite brush-off, and now you're just offering me the seat because you feel sorry for me, or do I actually have a chance here?

Chanel Cleeton

#18. No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

William Ellery Channing

#19. The wretched have no friends.

John Dryden

#20. I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something.

Paul Giamatti

#21. The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute.

Edmund Phelps

#22. People came up: 'I thought you were 6 ft tall.' I'm average height - 5 ft 8 ins, skinny blonde. One guy says to me 'So, where's the fox from Mystic Pizza?

Julia Roberts