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Quotes About Bargain

The bargain you make, again and again, with various companies is surveillance in exchange for free service.
~ Bruce Schneier
Your debt to the government has been repaid. Bruce had bragged to his grandfather about sending mail using an underpriced stamp. Grampa sent him a note with a stamp (8 cent if memory serves) with CANCELLED written on it in red pen and the terse note, Your debt to the government has been repaid. Williams said he never tried to underpay again (although he cerainly did bargain hard in many cases.
~ Bruce Williams
We have tried occasionally to buy toads at bargain prices with results that have been chronicled in past reports. Clearly our kisses fell flat. We have done well with a couple of princes -- but they were princes when purchased. At least our kisses didn't turn them into toads. And, finally, we have occasionally been quite successful in purchasing fractional interests in easily-identifiable princes at toad-like prices.
~ buffett warren ii
If your head explodes can I have your stuff?
~ Ilona Andrews
I am something of an aficionado of thrift stores. In my youth, I regularly searched their shelves for old books.
~ Michael Dirda
Mother always tries to buy things for a reasonable price. I was never allowed to buy things at full price. Probably, it's rooted in the Chinese mentality. We are very thrifty.
~ Jimmy O. Yang
I've long loved emerging markets airlines because they usually sell at bargain prices. The troubled history of developed market airlines unfairly taints these stocks. In the emerging world, they're growth stocks.
~ Kenneth Fisher
I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.
~ Agatha Christie
Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?
~ Steven Wright
Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
~ Marquis de Sade
Some of the best things that I ever sold on Ebay, I bought on Ebay - just for way less.
~ Sophia Amoruso
He thought about Lina saying she was like their mom. She was scared that it would happen to her. There was something tentative about his sister; he wasn't like that. His mother must have somehow given him a confidence that she didn't have herself. Still, Lina was an artist. That took courage. He'd made a bargain with life. He'd spend his time gaining the ease they'd once needed. His kids could be artists. He hoped they would be.
~ Mona Simpson
And up until quite recently, that has held up as the grand bargain of the carbon age: the people reaping the bulk of the benefits of extractivism pretend not to see the costs of that comfort so long as the sacrifice zones are kept safely out of view.
~ Naomi Klein
Better to make no bargain than a bad one, and be thought of forever as an easy mark.
~ Naomi Novik
A great poet has correctly stated this universal truth through these lines: "I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store. "For Life is a just employer, He gives you what you ask, But once you have set the wages, Why, you must bear the task. "I worked for a menial's hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid.
~ Napoleon Hill
the side that feels the lesser urge for peace will naturally get the better bargain.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
IF YOU WANT YOU'RE HOODY BACK, YOU'LL HAVE TO PAY! WAIT FOR MORE INSTRUCSHIONS.
~ Carolyn Keene
I'm taking your eye first, in case you want mine too.
~ Charlaine Harris
The Lakers got Pau Gasol for 10 rubles and a John Tesh DVD.
~ Jemele Hill
I caught you, saved you from painting the ground with your organs. You owed me a favor, and I asked for a single day without bloodshed.' 'Yeah, but you didn't specify which day.' With that, Paris dismissed the angel.
~ Gena Showalter
Religious fanatics are the worst. They're basically impossible to bargain with, they accept no outside opinion about anything, and they departed from reality well before you met them.
~ Gene Doucette
What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.
~ Gene Perret
Greet prees at market maketh deere ware,And to greet cheep is holde at litel prys.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first.
~ George Canning