Quotes About Price

Count the cost of everything.Rather than asking someone, "How much does this cost?" Ask yourself, "What is my value?

To the despair of every economist, it seems almost impossible for most people other than trained economists to comprehend how a price system works. Reporters and TV commentators seem especially resistant to the elementary principles they supposedly imbibed in freshman economics. Second

Maybe that was the price of ignorance, I thought, looking at the naked vagrant. Maybe Japan had to pay for the ignorant things it did in Nanking. Because ignorance as I'd got tired of hearing, is no excuse for evil.

O where shall I find a virtuous woman, for her price is above rubies.

I offer this advice without fee; it is included in the price of this book.

A well-told story, true or not, reminds you that, yes, the world is an exotic and magical place, and yes, it can be yours for a price. Enchantment always has a price--and sometimes the cost is love.

Corporations have to be responsive to price signals. We are not public service.

Trump has surrounded himself with masters of chaos—from Tillerson to Mnuchin. And chaos has a long track record of sending the price of oil up.

Trump was clearly betting that being president would drive up the price. But what if he is proven wrong? What if he starts losing commercial renters because they are coming under pressure for their association with his brand (several boycott campaigns like this are already under way)?

You refused him," he said to me, almost angrily. "I'm not a fool, to take gifts from monsters," I said. "Where do you think its power comes from? Nothing like that comes without a price." He laughed, a little shrill and sharp. "Yes, the trick is to have someone else pay it for you

I'm not a fool, to take gifts from monsters. Where do you think its power comes from? Nothing like that comes without a price.

You have done a great working. So now he can do another in return. But high magic never comes without a price." "Why is it a great working that we shoved more than half his treasure into a tunnel?" I said, exasperated. "You were challenged beyond the bounds of what could be done, and found a path to make it true," Tsop said.

greatest public school system in the world. We have invested fabulous sums for fine buildings, we have provided convenient transportation for children living in the rural districts, so they may attend the best schools, but there is one astounding weakness to this marvelous system — it is free! One of the strange things about human beings is that they value only that which has a price.

Life has no bargains. Everything that you get that's worthy of having has a price upon it.

One of the strange things about human beings is that they value only that which has a price.

Uma das coisas estranhas no ser humano é valorizar só aquilo que tem um preço.

Revolt and terror pay a price. Order and law have a cost.

My benefactor told me that my father and mother had lived and died just to have me, and that their own parents had done the same for them. He said that warriors were different in that they shift their assemblage points enough to realize the tremendous price that has been paid for their lives. This shift gives them the respect and awe that their parents never felt for life in general, or for being alive in particular.

La meritocrazia e il clima mediterraneo sono di necessità incompatibili. È il prezzo che paghiamo per avere il miglior olio d'oliva d mondo, immagino.

De cada mil personas que adquieren un cuadro o una obra de arte, sólo una de ellas tiene una remota idea de lo que compra —le explicaba Salvat, sonriente—. Los demás no compran la obra, compran al artista, lo que han oído y, casi siempre, lo que se imaginan acerca de él. Este negocio no es diferente a vender remedios de curandero o filtros de amor, Germán. La diferencia estriba en el precio.

But you're the man, and you must take the lead." It was all beginning to look pretty grim. "The lead? Me?" "What do you expect? One has to pay some price for being able to piss standing up.

Meritocracy and the Mediterranean climate are by necessity incompatible. I suppose it's the price we pay for having the best olive oil in the world.

encontrar el modo de salvar el laberinto y recordar el precio de la bestia, guardaría el plano en el cofre familiar donde algún día, no albergaba duda ninguna, encontraría al hacedor de laberintos merecedor de tamaño desafío.

Cuando le ofrecí este don, apelé a la codicia de la mente para tentarle. Quiero que acepte también este humilde amuleto, que tal vez algún día apelará a la sabiduría de su alma si el precio de la ambición es demasiado alto…".