Quotes About Price

How ironic that those who could most afford to pay the price refused.

Volatility creates lower returns and thus is itself a risk. If you can reduce the volatility in a portfolio, then the compounded return moves higher, closer to the simple average return of the weighted investments in the portfolio. This is how lower portfolio price volatility increases portfolio return over time.

I feel as if I am an ad for the sale of a haunted house: 18 rooms $37,000 I'm yours ghosts and all.

Robert Oppenheimer thus acquired for Los Alamos what Leo Szilard had not been able to organize in Chicago: scientific freedom of speech. The price the new community paid, a social but more profoundly a political price, was a guarded barbed-wire fence around the town and a second guarded barbed-wire fence around the laboratory itself, emphasizing that the scientists and their families were walled off where knowledge of their work was concerned not only from the world but even from each other.

Just curious how much I'm going for these days, Leo said. I mean, I can understand not being as pricey as Percy or Jason, maybe...but am I worth, like, two Franks, or three Franks?

Something comes cheap, it ain't worth much. That's true for knowledge especially.

Just as the gold and silver you gave to my foster family was a small price for you to pay, said Alain, suddenly bitter again. For their fostering of you? A small price, indeed, Alain. Never begrudge the seed you sow in good soil, for it is the harvest that comes from that sowing that will determine whether you live or die next spring. Think not only for this day, but for the one that is to come. In this way, Lavas has prospered and will continue to do so under your stewardship.

What price did William pay for your life, for your loyalty sworn by oath? Could I purchase it from him? -Aislinn

The name of the exhibit that my body is in, here with good ol' Sergeant Stubby, is The Price of Freedom.

Science promised man power. But, as so often happens when people are seduced by promises of power, the price is servitude and impotence. Power is nothing if it is not the power to choose.

The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.

At God's counter there are no sale days, for the price of revival is ever the same: travail!

As was said by Thomas Jefferson, "the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Therefore from the storehouse of His Passion I borrow the price of my debt,

And who'd date tell the lambs in spring, what fate the later seasons bring. Who'd tell the girl in the middle the pair the price she'll be just pay for just being there.

You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely.

Nevertheless, some analysts on the sell-side have justified Tesla's valuation. We recently observed a televised analyst say "when Tesla is earning $25 a share. …" That estimate, presumably at some point in the future, is used as an anchor for a target price as the stock shifts into a "concept holding." The

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

The press has given up saying so but these two men are denouncing what they once supported: a price on carbon and an emissions trading scheme.

Sometimes, Stuart love, the cost of living is too high a price to pay.

Labor, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural and its market price. The natural price of labor is that price which is necessary to enable the laborers, one with another, to subsist and perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.

The diminution of money in one country, and its increase in another, do not operate on the price of one commodity only, but on the prices of all.

The relationship between the price you pay and the value you receive is the most important factor in determining your future investment returns.

papers that the market was down to new lows, and the experts were predicting that it was sure to drop another 200 points in the Dow, then the farmer would look through the Standard & Poor's Stock Guide and select around 30 stocks that had fallen in price substantially.