Quotes About Price

Adding the second option creates a conflict, forcing a trade-off between price and quality.

human possibility, awash in material abundance. As a society, we have achieved what our ancestors could, at most, only dream about, but it has come at a great price.

In the modern university, each individual student is free to pursue almost any interest, without having to be harnessed to what his intellectual ancestors thought was worth knowing. But this freedom may come at a price. Now students are required to make choices about education that may affect them for the rest of their lives. And they are forced to make these choices at a point in their intellectual development when they may lack the resources to make them intelligently.

You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.

IN THE WORDS OF THOMAS PAINE, "THAT WHICH WE OBTAN TOO EASILY, WE ESTEEM TOO LIGHTLY. IT IS DEARNESS ONLY WHICH GIVES EVERYTHING ITS VALUE. HEAVEN KNOWS HOW TO PUT A PROPER PRICE ON ITS GOODS.

The price must be paid and the process followed. You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.

The farm is a natural system. The price must be paid and the process followed. You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.

play all summer and then cram in the fall to bring in the harvest? The farm is a natural system. The price must be paid and the process followed. You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.

Qualunque sia il caso, lei è sparita dalla mia vita. È il prezzo che ho dovuto pagare per aver flirtato romanticamente con l'apocalisse. Sono stato così sciocco da credere di poter giocare con il caos, mentre era il caos a giocare con me.

Pero la felicidad se entreveía en una docena de formas más. Parece que ése es el resultado de realizar un trabajo interesante con colegas inteligentes en un entorno hermoso, todo con un sentimiento de misión profundo. Un precio de las acciones en 297 dólares tampoco perjudica.

To Chen's surprise, Felix and the others responded rationally. When the price of a given food rose, the monkeys bought less of it, and when the price fell, they bought more. The most basic law of economics—that the demand curve slopes downward—held for monkeys as well as humans.

What most of these doomsday scenarios have gotten wrong is the fundamental idea of economics: people respond to incentives. If the price of a good goes up, people demand less of it, the companies that make it figure out how to make more of it, and everyone tries to figure out how to produce substitutes for it.

A low current stock price forecasts a low future price. If today's price is low, there is a good reason to buy more (it's cheap) and also a good reason to buy less (it's likely to stay cheap). The two reasons cancel out and make "buying more when the price is low" no more attractive than "buying more when the price is high.

The governing principle is precisely the same one that predicts behavior at the gas pump. When the price of gasoline is low, people choose to buy more gasoline. When the price of accidents (e.g., the probability of being killed or the expected medical bill) is low, people choose to have more accidents. You

Language acquisition might be like other biological functions. The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just as the decrepitude of age is the price we pay for the vigor of youth.

The improved odds of a natural death came with another price, captured by the Roman historian Tacitus: "Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws." The Bible stories we examined in chapter 1 suggest that the first kings kept their subjects in awe with totalistic ideologies and brutal punishments.

Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.

I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. . . . I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.

In the beginning, the price of giving great love is risking that it won't be returned. Until you understand, of course, that great love is always returned. With interest.

My sisters and I miss our dad dreadfully. But grief, of course, is the price of love.

Real cardamom is expensive, second only to saffron in price, and there are lots of inferior substitutes from cardamom-related plants masquerading as the real thing. Only Elettaria cardamomum—its botanical name—is

Failure is the price we pay for standards and, because mediocrity has consequences both real and harsh, standards are necessary.

What's the price you pay for a high standard of living? Well, that's easy. You virtually always sacrifice the present for the future.

You have to suffer because things are meaningless but that's a small price to pay for being able to be completely useless