Top 100 The Price Quotes
#1. The main reason why it is profitable to establish a firm would seem to be that there is a cost of using the price mechanism. The most obvious cost of 'organizing' production through the price mechanism is that of discovering what the relevant prices are.
Ronald Coase
#2. I was pretty entrepreneurial as a kid. I had a lemonade stand. When I was 12, I arbitraged the price of 7-Eleven hot dogs; I'd buy the ones that are pre-wrapped with the bun and then sell them on the beach.
Stewart Butterfield
#3. Living the gospel of Jesus Christ is the price of-and the only way to-peace.
Marion G. Romney
#4. In the face of all his handicaps, Jurgis was obliged to make the price of a lodging, and of a drink every hour or two, under penalty of freezing to death.
Upton Sinclair
#5. All the blogs, Facebook, Twitter are made by people who want to show their own private affairs at the price of making fakes, to try to appear such as they are not, to construct another personality, which is a veritable loss of identity.
Umberto Eco
#6. The price you have to pay to be great at something - is repetition.
Andrew Brown
#7. If it is worth playing, it is worth paying the price to win.
Bear Bryant
#8. I don't understand how it's cheaper to buy a whole steak at the Price Club than spinach. How did that happen?
Jose Andres
#9. This woman enabled her husband to cheat, and she wasn't doing either one of them any favors. Instead of leaving him, she would take him home, scold him, and then carry on with business as usual. Inside though, she would be hurting.
No woman could love a cheater and not pay the price for it.
Rose Wynters
#10. Love him enough to give him this, even if it's at the price of your pride. (Annette to Cat)
Jeaniene Frost
#11. We pay a tax to succeed at anything worthwhile. That tax is called dedication, and here's the most wonderful part. Once you pay it, once you truly dedicate yourself to something important, you'll find the price was worth it.
Steve Goodier
#12. In order for an act to be a crime, libertarians say, someone must be harmed - there must be a victim. Anything that's peaceful, voluntary, and honest should be tolerated regardless of whether we agree with it. Part of the price of our own freedom is allowing others to be free.
Scott Banister
#13. We must strike a balance so that the protection of our irreplaceable heritage becomes as important as its use. The price of economic growth need not and will not be deterioration in the quality of our lives and our surroundings.
Richard M. Nixon
#14. Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly.
Hesiod
#16. Being alive always seems to be the price of something.
Julio Cortazar
#17. Obsession remains the price of creation, and the writer who declines that risk will come up with nothing more creative than 'The Foxes of Harrow' or 'Mrs. Parkington.'
Nelson Algren
#18. Creon: See that you never side with those who break my orders.
Leader: Never. Only a fool could be in love with death.
Creon: Death is the price - you're right. But all too often the mere hope of money has ruined many men.
Sophocles
#19. With color, for the price of a pot of paint, people can express their own style and individuality. But, as with style, a gift for color has to be developed by experiment. If you don't dare, you are doomed to dullness.
Shirley Conran
#20. This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was no profit in regret.
Donna Woolfolk Cross
#21. God, Sarah. No. Just, no. I'm not talking money. I don't want your money. You think you can buy true power? You can't. If you could, history would be written by the practitioners." 'So, what then?" Here it was. "Your soul, Sarah. The price is your soul.
J.P. Sloan
#22. Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands - though there is no guarantee that a just price will be struck; and there is nothing spontaneous about politics- it depends on deliberate and continuous activity.
Bernard Crick
#23. Death is the price we pay for life, so make it worth it.
Joe De Sena
#24. We are having to live with paying the price for what happened before.
Felix Sabates
#25. Groups like the NAACP, The Anti-Defamation League, NOW and GLAAD, will respond to derisive language directed at their constituents. The price paid by those who cavalierly chose to verbally disrespect the dignity of African Americans, Jews, women and homosexuals is steep.
John C. McGinley
#26. In 1855, as the price of paper rose, Dr. Deck proposed to dig up 2 1/2 million tons of Egyptian mummies, ship them to New York, unroll them; and use their linen wrappings to make paper.
Nicholson Baker
#27. The point is that market returns are determined by both investment factors - the fundamentals of the initial dividend yield on stocks plus the rate at which their earnings grow - and by speculative factors - the change in the price that investors will pay for each $1 of corporate earnings.
John C. Bogle
#28. My wife will automatically quote and compare the price of diesel at every petrol station we drive by, like she's got oil-based Tourette's.
Ian Watson
#29. It is never late, you can start the movement now, the provisions have been made, the price has been paid and the gifts have been packaged. Are you willing to change?
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#30. The price tag that you put on your soul will determine the people and circumstances in which you find yourself.
Shannon L. Alder
#31. Most of us human beings tend to be parochial in our perceptions. What happens is that we have a very limited and narrow view of our self interest and do not adequately weight the price that has to be paid on the other side for any of these measures we are promoting.
Alan Borovoy
#32. The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.
Voltaire
#33. The church is often called a killjoy for protesting against sexual license. But the real killing of joy comes with the grabbing of pleasure. As with credit card usage. the price tag is hidden at the start, but the physical and emotional debt incurred will take a long time to pay off.
N. T. Wright
#34. We are saying that if the Holocaust occurred, then Europe must draw the consequences and that it is not Palestine that should pay the price for it. If it did not occur, then the Jews have to go back to where they came from. I believe that the German people today are also prisoners of the Holocaust.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
#35. The price must be paid to forge the New Order.
Kami Garcia
#36. He realized that monarchy was essential to peace, and that the price of freedom was violence and disorder.
Tacitus
#37. Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty.
Scott Westerfeld
#38. The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them.
Daniel Gilbert
#39. Who said it was thieves who know the price of everything and the value of nothing?"
"Oscar Wilde," I said. "And it's cynics, not thieves."
"Ah! That explains it, then.
Heidi Heilig
#40. Each and every day, more people pay the price of Obamacare's mountain of mandates. As I travel across the country, I continue to hear from Americans who want Washington to take its hands off of their healthcare.
John Barrasso
#41. She did not know then that the price of allowing false opinions was the gradual loss of one's capacity for forming true ones.
Muriel Spark
#42. Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.
Steven Chu
#43. I will rue for all eternity every moment of suffering I've caused you. The entire time I'm burning in Hell, I'll regret each tear I made you weep. But if Hell were the price for twenty days with you, I'd condemn myself again and again.
Karen Marie Moning
#44. These days man knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
#45. Girls barely budding open their legs to make a living, alongside the toothless and rancid of breath; hair thick with lice, they all find customers if the price is right, against the wall or on sheets well-soiled. Their holes cost but a shilling. Skins grow thick and claws sharp.
Emmanuelle De Maupassant
#46. Harris said, however, that the river would suit him to a "T." I don't know what a "T" is (except a sixpenny one, which includes bread-and- butter and cake AD LIB., and is cheap at the price, if you haven't had any dinner). It seems to suit everybody, however, which is greatly to its credit.
Jerome K. Jerome
#47. If you don't pay the price for success, you'll pay the price for failure.
Zig Ziglar
#48. Prometheus had stolen fire from the gods and suffered the consequences. I had returned the gift of the gods, and the price had been my dreams.
Jim C. Hines
#49. Just why Mr. Frodo was selling his beautiful hole was even more debatable than the price.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#51. Keep your eyes on the price when spending, don't regret later to find that you have nothing for tomorrow.
Auliq Ice
#52. I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them - which was much higher than what the trader was giving them.
Muhammad Yunus
#53. All of a sudden I'm an expert on everything. Interviewers want your opinion on golf, foreign policy and even the price of peanuts.
Hubert Green
#54. How foolish it was of Christ to purchase for us at the price of his shed blood the Spirit we did not need, in order that we might be given a facility in keeping the commandments, who we already have one by nature.
Martin Luther
#55. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident risks an even larger loss of life and liberty.
William A. Niskanen
#56. They'd heard it all, but hadn't they earned their freedom? The days of running through forests and living under floorboards. Wasn't that the price they had paid?
Yaa Gyasi
#57. Life is replete with comedy, drama, horror, suspense, tragedy, romance, mystery, fantasy and a good dose of fiction. While at times the plot may seem to be lacking, the special effects alone are well worth the price of admission.
Derek R. Audette
#58. We could afford the price of peace. Love is all it costs.
Dolly Parton
#59. The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority.
Neil Postman
#60. The price of light is less than the cost of darkness.
Arthur Nielsen
#61. The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.
Denis Waitley
#62. The use of force is easy to rationalize in terms of basic economics. 'We should make them PAY for what they've done!' It's just the law of demand: raise the price of crossing us, and fewer people will cross us. Make the price another Hiroshima, and perhaps the quantity demanded will fall to zero.
Bryan Caplan
#63. Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!
Samuel Adams
#64. We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly.
Bill Williams
#65. All the bad things you do in life come back to you, (David). And I've done a lot of bad things. A lot. But I've paid the price. (The Angel's Game)
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#66. No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
Ovid
#67. Each of us, looking at Jesus Christ, should remember the price of greatness
Sunday Adelaja
#68. It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and not merely holding down a job, that the price of things is approximate to their real value ...
Ananda Coomaraswamy
#69. What makes these special Beaujolais attractive is the same thing that has always made Beaujolais attractive: the price. Given the insane prices of so many wines right now, Beaujolais and the delicious wines pouring in from southern Italy and Sicily keep many wine drinkers from switching to iced tea.
Frank J. Prial
#71. They're hungry for something they know nothing about, but we, we know all too well that the price of fame is the loss of privacy.
David Sedaris
#72. We used to live in a world where the price of resources came down steadily, and now the world has changed. You have a great mismatch between finite resources and exponential population growth.
Jeremy Grantham
#73. Every time you make a mistake, don't bring up everything that's wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you're paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.
John C. Maxwell
#74. Evil came from within, just as love and beauty did. Evil was the price humans paid for being alive.
Kristina Douglas
#75. There's a lot of money to be made by strip-mining and drilling the dirtiest oil on the planet. But why should the rest of us pay the price?
Robert Redford
#76. For somebody for whom they're going to buy a certain amount of gas irrespective of the price, should they really spend so much time thinking about the price of gas? It doesn't affect anything they do.
Sendhil Mullainathan
#77. It's good for you to think of this, son. Ponder. Worry. Stay up nights, frightened for the casualties of your ideology. It will do you good to realize the price of fighting.
Brandon Sanderson
#78. [W]hen you align yourself exclusively with one party, and weaponize yourself in that party's cause, you're going to pay the price when the other party is in power. That's the price you pay for whoring yourself out.
Glenn Reynolds
#79. We are together with the British and Americans because one should fight terror. But we are not going to pay the price for it by endangering Israel and its citizens.
Ariel Sharon
#80. I noticed you tore down Donovan's house."
He lifted his gaze until it locked with mine. "He's alive because he left town. His house chose to stay. It paid the price.
Darynda Jones
#82. The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth.
Prince Charles
#83. But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream ... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.
Neil Gaiman
#84. TV, a Pioneer in the series they had to stop making because it was too expensive, too good for the price they commanded. Truls had got the last one, bought with money he had earned by burning evidence against a pilot who had been smuggling heroin for Asayev.
Jo Nesbo
#85. The price for men in motion is the occasional collision ...
Carroll Smith
#86. In security analysis the prime stress is laid upon protection against untoward events. We obtain this protection by insisting upon margins of safety, or values well in excess of the price paid.
Benjamin Graham
#87. The price of being a hip, swinging chick eventually had become too great to pay.
Anita O'Day
#88. I have a wardrobe full of scarves now, just about every color under the sun. My trick is that I always cut them in two, down the middle. They're lighter, thinner, skinnier that way. And because I'm cheap, I get two scarves for the price of one.
Colum McCann
#89. There is just something about women who spend hours and hours knitting a sweater with mind-blowingly expensive yarn, when they could just buy a sweater for a fraction of the price - not to mention the time saved doing so - that lends itself to acceptance and patience for the human condition.
Penny Reid
#91. Social stability comes at the price of wearing a mask, of learning to distance ourselves from our unique nature, from our personal desires, needs, and feelings; instead, we embrace a socially acceptable self.
Frederic Laloux
#92. My God, if any of it could be shared! But would it "be" then, would it "be"? No, it "is" only at the price of solitude.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#93. They told you that you were safe. They told you lies. You are weak and defeated. For the price of one helicopter, we have brought you to your knees.
Thomas Waite
#94. And once you cross over into that world, no matter how strong you are, you have to pay the price.
Lawrence Taylor
#95. It is not the lowest priced goods that are always the cheapest - the quality is, or ought to be as much an object with the purchaser, as the price.
George Washington
#96. Some people treat seeing me as if they just won a car on 'The Price is Right.' The feet get going, and the hands start flapping, and it's really quite amazing. It's a little scary: you can't have more than two or three of them at the same time because someone might get hurt. But it's great fun.
John Schneider
#97. Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.
Thomas Sowell
#98. The price for flight. I'd never thought of it that, of my decision having any sort of value. But of course it did. Every choice meant giving something up to gain something else.
Karen White
#99. I don't think we're going to see the price of oil going down in the near future, that's the reality.
Carly Fiorina
#100. Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.
Mark Skousen
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