There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American Head of State, Military Leader
You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) American Head of State
Something you don’t want is dear at any price.
—Common Proverb
We never know the worth of water ’til the well is dry.
—Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian
We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
—French Proverb
One cannot but wonder at this constantly recurring phrase getting something for nothing, as if it were the peculiar and perverse ambition of disturbers of society. Except for our animal outfit, practically all we have is handed us gratis. Can the most complacent reactionary flatter himself that he invented the art of writing or the printing press, or discovered his religious, economic, and moral convictions, or any of the devices which supply him with meat and raiment or any of the sources of such pleasure as he may derive from literature or the fine arts? In short, civilization is little else than getting something for nothing.
—James Harvey Robinson (1863–1936) American Historian
Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr. (1913–70) American Football Player, Coach
The only salvation of the world today… is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human rights, the civil society, and the free market.
—Vaclav Havel (1936–2011) Czech Dramatist, Statesman
For every promise, there is a price to pay. If the promise is clear, the price is easy.
—Jim Rohn (1930–2009) American Entrepreneur, Author, Motivational Speaker
No price is too low for a bear or too high for a bull.
—Common Proverb
My heart is a bargain today. Will you take it?
—W. C. Fields (1880–1946) American Actor, Comedian, Writer
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
—Buddhist Teaching
Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
—Brian Tracy (b.1944) American Author, Motivational Speaker
Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed.
—Peter Drucker (1909–2005) Austrian-born Management Consultant
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few and they are more beautiful if they are a few.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001) American Aviator, Author
Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There’s a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
—Harry Browne (1933–2006) American Politician, Investor, Writer
Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.
—Ryszard Kapuscinski (1932–2007) Polish Journalist
You are only worth has much as you have.
—Common Proverb
No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
—Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American New Thought Writer, Physician, Entrepreneur
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
—Warren Buffett (b.1930) American Investor
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of a disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
—Ask Ann Landers (1918–2002) American Advice Columnist
Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.
—Peter Drucker (1909–2005) Austrian-born Management Consultant
A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
—B. C. Forbes (1880–1954) Scottish-born American Journalist, Publisher
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
—Theophrastus (c.372–c.286 BCE) Greek Philosopher
The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English Essayist
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr. (1913–70) American Football Player, Coach
Value is what people are willing to pay for it.
—John Naisbitt American Trend Analyst
Forbidden things have a secret charm.
—Tacitus (56–117) Roman Orator, Historian
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
—Samuel Butler
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
—Unknown
Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the “breadwinner ethic.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b.1941) American Social Critic, Essayist
When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues.
—Les Brown
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
—Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American Author, Journalist, Attorney, Lecturer
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
—Bruce Lee (1940–73) American Martial Artist, Actor, Philosopher
DUCHESS: Diamonds are of most value,
They say, that have past through most jewellers’ hands.
FERDINAND: Whores, by that rule, are precious.
—John Webster (1580–1634) English Dramatist, Poet
Try not to become a man of success, but rather to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
Expenditures rise to meet income.
—C. Northcote Parkinson (1909–93) British Historian, Scholar, Novelist, Satirist
We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it’s all about.
—Joseph Campbell (1904–87) American Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) French Essayist
The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.
—Bruce Lee (1940–73) American Martial Artist, Actor, Philosopher
That which we obtain 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.
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809) American Nationalist, Author, Pamphleteer, Radical, Inventor
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
—Malcolm X (1925–65) American Civil Rights Leader
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
—Karl Marx (1818–1883) German Philosopher, Economist
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
—Mignon McLaughlin (1913–83) American Journalist, Author
He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) (c.250–184 BCE) Roman Comic Playwright
If you have to ask how much it costs, you can’t afford it.
—J. P. Morgan (1837–1913) American Financier, Philanthropist, Art Collector