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Quotes About Price

There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen.
~ Nicholas Kristof
There are people on staff who have made that point, that the upside to a second Bush term is that it makes 'American Dad' work better. To me, the price is too high. I would gladly give up the comedy to have a President Kerry. But you work with what you have.
~ Seth MacFarlane
Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it - in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.
~ John C. Maxwell
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
~ Alexander Pope
The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.
~ Thomas Hobbes
A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.
~ Marcel Proust
Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
~ Samuel Smiles
Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
~ Baltasar Gracian
If love could be purchased, everybody would have paid a thousand dollars a pound for it. You know it doesn't work that way.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
A work of art is worth what someone will pay for it.
~ Jeffrey Archer
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.
~ Jerry Saltz
I think that a lot of companies are still amazingly price sensitive.
~ Sanjay Kumar
Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
~ J. Paul Getty
If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
~ Barry Diller
How advertising is handled has always been a key distinction between low and high order publishing. The higher you stood, the more separate you were from advertising, and, in the logic of snobbery, the greater a premium price the top brands would pay to be in your company.
~ Michael Wolff
Someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Oscar Wilde's definition of a cynic, now commonly applied to economists Imagine
~ Tim Harford
Is it worth going into this admission process in just a little more detail? I think so, if only to appreciate the tendency the Italian authorities have of offering everybody a price (to endear themselves to the electorate) and then, since they can't actually afford to give it to everybody, setting up a maze, or obstacle race, to make sure that only those who really haggle for it (not those who need it) actually get it.
~ Tim Parks
Full value for your soul wouldn't get you a cup of coffee at a convenience store.
~ Tim Pratt
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."—Warren Buffett
~ Timothy Ferriss
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."—Oscar Wilde
~ Timothy Ferriss
Just because something is more expensive doesn't make it better!
~ Timothy Ferriss
People who assure you that you can only gain security at the price of liberty usually want to deny you both.
~ Timothy Snyder
The economic basis on which Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish nationalists made the case for separation was based on an oil price much higher than it is at the moment, so there will be no case for it.
~ Michael Gove