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Quotes About Price

Never be envious of what someone else has. You don't know the price they paid to get it, and you don't know the price they are paying to keep it.
~ Unknown
Nothing comes freely, even that thing that comes freely to you has been paid by someone else
~ Unknown
In any fairy-tale, getting what you wish for comes at a cost. There is always a codicil, an addendum to the granting of a wish. There is always a price to pay.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
The client's question, "Are we getting the best deal?" (price negotiation) is very different from "Can we afford this?" (value justification); it is important to understand the difference.
~ Unknown
The wars will end and the leaders will shake hands, and that old woman will remain waiting for her martyred son, and that girl will wait for her beloved husband, and the children will wait for their heroic father, I do not know who sold the homeland but I know who paid the price.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
Electric scooter is highly overpriced by all its manufacturers and is not fit to be purchased until its price drops by 40%. After seeing this, now e-vehicle makers will increase exorbitantly more its price as they don't care what buyers say
~ Unknown
A civil war was looming. Or partition. Partition was in their hands, civil war wasn't. Once it started, when and how would it end? How many would lose their lives? The Hindus were in a majority and might win, but at what price? Could they afford another Mahabharat?
~ Unknown
Sanity is a small price to pay for happiness.
~ Unknown
Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies.
~ Marc Andreessen
Toate visele au pretul lor
~ Marc Levy
The only thing a bucket of shit is worth is the price of the bucket.
~ Marc MacYoung
A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on.
~ Marcel Proust
Une œuvre où il y a des théories est comme un objet sur lequel on laisse la marque du prix.
~ Marcel Proust
A work in which there are theories is like an object upon which the price is marked.
~ Marcel Proust
Too many businesses compete on price when they should be competing on value.
~ Unknown
To young mind, work seemed to be the price that was gladly paid for the privilege of living so closely with the earth. Work was a real conversation with the landscape. It was not an abuse or raiding of the landscape. It was amazing to learn how to work in this context.
~ John O'Donohue
In reality high profits tend much more to raise the price of (a piece of) work than high wages. (quoting Adam Smith - ch. (III - From Corporatism to Democracy)
~ John Ralston Saul
When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.
~ John Ruskin
But my car upholstery was a small price to pay for interplanetary peace.
~ John Scalzi
When I ran from Janice I made an interesting discovery. The tears bubble over her lids and the salty taste of pool-water is sealed into her mouth. If you have the guts to be yourself, he says, other people'll pay your price.
~ John Updike
Justice has a price. That price is freedom.
~ John Wagner
A lot of weird ads. Sally Struthers with that little kid: 'Just 55 cents, the price of a cup of coffee, feeds this kid and his family for a week.' Yeah, where is that? 'Cause I wanna move there.
~ Robert Schimmel
There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.
~ Garrison Keillor
We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.
~ John W. Gardner