Quotes About Price

But though, in establishing perpetual rents, or even in letting very long leases, it may be of use to distinguish between real and nominal price; it is of none in buying and selling, the more common and ordinary transactions of human life.

In the present season of scarcity, the high price of corn no doubt distresses the poor. But in times of moderate plenty, when corn is at its ordinary or average price, the natural rise in the price of any other sort of rude produce cannot much affect them. They suffer more, perhaps, by the artificial rise which has been occasioned by taxes in the price of some manufactured commodities, as of salt, soap, leather, candles, malt, beer, ale, etc.

The real price of everything is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

singing in the old-fashioned language of this good-hearted man, who sold us Hope at the lowest possible price

For we fear not only the loss of our possessions, but the loss of our superiority and the loss of our whiteness. Some say it is true that crime is bad, but would this not be worse? Is it not better to hold what we have, and to pay the price of it with fear?

Actions in Hindu mythology are never 'right', though they are often necessary or obligatory, and they always come at a price.

Lo valioso no se recupera fácilmente cuando se lo cambia por unas monedas.

Look at us. You look like death, my friend, and I'm sure I do, too. We'll never stop blaming ourselves. I guess that's the price of love?

The key point is that, in principle, interest income is the change in price associated with the passage of time. Capital gains and losses are the changes in price related to changes in value—for bonds that means a change in the yield. We'll see in Chapter 4 when we get into bond taxation how well these economic principles hold up in practice.

You have to pay the price. You will find that everything in life exacts a price, and you will have to decide whether the price is worth the prize.

Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price. That is why the bounty killers appeared.

There are many, and there will be many, who will gladly purchase eternal life for a small price, if they see that others are fighting for God in earnest, rather than pretending to do so.

The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself.

Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.

I know people think that acting is not quite the occupation of grown-ups, but it is actually the ultimate learning process: You get a multitude of experiences, all for the price of one life.

If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

At the end of 2012, the yield on nominal bonds was about 2 percent. The only way that bonds could generate a 7.8 percent real return is if the consumer price index fell by nearly 6 percent per year over the next 30 years. Yet a deflation of this magnitude has never been sustained by any country in world history.

By the end of 2012, the price of gold reached $1,675 per ounce, and $1 of gold bullion purchased in 1802 was worth $86.40 at the end of 2012, while the price level itself increased by a factor of 19.12.

The price investors paid for IBM was just too high. Even though the computer giant trumped Standard Oil on growth, Standard Oil trumped IBM on valuation, and valuation determines investor returns.

The superior performance of the original S&P 500 firms surprises most investors. But value investors (as described in Chapter 12) know that growth stocks often are priced too high, and excitement over their prospects often induces investors to pay too high a price. Profitable firms that do not catch investors' eyes are often underpriced. If investors reinvest the dividends of such firms, they are buying undervalued shares that will add significantly to their return.

If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.

This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.