120 High Prices Quotes
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Famous High Prices Quotes
Paying a fancy price for something… because of too favorable interpretation of basic facts, is the investment fad of the moment. — Philip Arthur Fisher
Too much money, risky and new, asset prices, prospective returns, safety — Howard Marks
Investment risk, high prices, optimism, skepticism, risk aversion — Howard Marks
Value investor, high risk, low prospective returns, high prices — Howard Marks
Popularity contest, dangerous, buy something at the peak of popularity — Howard Marks
Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women. — Lord Kelvin
It's a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coaches exceeds the supply, so of course the price of good coaches is going to be high. — Michael Gartner
Cheap is expensive. — Mexican Proverbs
When profit margins of a whole industry rise because of repeated price increases, the indication is not a good one for the long-range investor. — Philip Arthur Fisher
In a bubble, people are ready to pay any price without any regard to intrinsic value or any value whatsoever because they believe they can always sell it for a profit. — Naved Abdali
What price are you willing to pay for greatness. — Tom Bilyeu
The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory. — Aldo Gucci
Compete for deals, low returns, slender margin of error — Howard Marks
Risk arises when markets go so high that prices imply losses rather than the potential rewards they should. — Howard S. Marks
The price of success must be paid in full, in advance. — Brian Tracy
Short High Prices Quotes
- Everyone believes something is risky, unwillingness to buy, price falls — Howard Marks
- Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. — Albert Einstein
- The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high. — J. William Fulbright
- I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it. — Madeleine Albright
- Inefficient markets, generous returns, raw materials, mispricings, differential skill — Howard Marks
- Awareness, price and value, successful risk dealing — Howard Marks
- There is no victory at bargain basement prices. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive. — Moliere
- Look at hash, not price. Hash precedes price. — Max Keiser
- The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty. — Robert Louis Stevenson
High Prices Quotes
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others—that is too high a price to pay. — Robert Greene
I've paid my price, a high price, I watched my mother die. I look at everything I've been given now as a form of compensation. A person who has regrets is a person who casts anchors. — Marco Pierre White
We will establish a new system that makes high-quality health care available to every American in a dignified manner and at a price he can afford. — Richard M. Nixon
Now that the Nordstream pipelines are gone it's worth thinking about how a deindustrialisation of Europe via permantly high energy prices. — Philip Pilkington
We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless. — Lech Walesa
Market prices are often wrong. Because access to information and the analysis thereof are highly imperfect, market prices are often far above or far below intrinsic values. — Howard Marks
In order to be able to sell a product at a relatively high price, you have to offer the craftsmanship and quality that goes along with it. — Bernard Arnault
Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a 50 or 60 point break from present levels, such as (bears) have predicted. I expect to see the stock market a good deal higher within a few months. — Irving Fisher
High Gas Prices Quotes
While some sit on the sidelines and fail to offer any practical solutions to address high gas prices now, the House is once again taking action to meet the energy needs of the American people. — Dave Reichert
Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and an ever tightening budget on agriculture subsidies. — Michael McCaul
High gas prices are eating away at consumers disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel. — Major Owens
The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington. — Yakov Smirnoff
In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades — Gary Miller
The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California. — Alice Rivlin
High gas prices are eating away at consumer's disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel. — Major R. Owens
President Bush spoke with the Amish. He didn't want to, but it was the only group he could find that wasn't upset about the high price of gas. — Jay Leno
It's people wanting to do something about global climate change. People fed up with the high price of gas. People tired of breathing dirty air. In Houston, Los Angeles, Bakersfield, and other cities. It's going to be a critical mass of people experiencing something. — Ed Begley, Jr.
Recent economic data shows that our economy is robust, growing and headed in the right direction. The numbers don't lie. Americans are currently enjoying falling gas prices, low unemployment, increased job creation, and a stock market that has reached an all-time high. — J. D. Hayworth
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Everyone is born with a certain potential. You may never achieve your full potential, but how close you come depends on how much you want to pay the price. — Red Auerbach
Investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business and How to Think About Market Prices — Warren Buffett
Part of paying the price is the willingness to do whatever it takes to get the job done. It comes from a declaration that you are going to get it done no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, no matter what comes up. — Jack Canfield
There is good in everything; it's just how you choose to look at it. Everything that's worth it has a price. For me to be a model - I had to leave my family. Do you think I liked that? No! There are sacrifices. Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow. — Gisele Bundchen
One day we're going to look back at $1,700 with nostalgia. People are going to be shocked at how inexpensive gold was when it could be snapped up for such a bargain price. — Peter Schiff
When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball pitcher - trying to use blazing speed and brute force to wow the people around me. — Eric Liu
How incredibly avaricious the whole operation was, the way they made the Jews pay for their tickets in the railway cars to the death camps. Yeah, and the rates for a third-class ticket, one way. And half price for children.... It was a kind of exploration of evil. Just how bad can we get? — Martin Amis
How I wish we could all see the cost of our choices as clearly as a price tag on items in a store. If I know how much something is going to cost me, I make much wiser choices. But we have an enemy who schemes against us to keep the cost of dumb decisions concealed until it's too late. — Lysa TerKeurst
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated. — Thomas Paine
The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently. — Abraham Kaplan
High Value Quotes
We are of such value to God that He came to live among us... and to guide us home. He will go to any length to seek us, even to being lifted high upon the cross to draw us back to Himself. We can only respond by loving God for His love. — St. Catherine of Siena
Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency. — Abraham Maslow
God knows your value; He sees your potential. You may not understand everything you are going through right now. But hold your head up high, knowing that God is in control and he has a great plan and purpose for your life. — Joel Osteen
When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter is 20 feet closer to God. — Fred Bear
There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice. — Elizabeth Joan Smith
Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else. — Nathaniel Branden
I think it is appropriate to ask whether this trend is compatible with values rooted in our nation's history, among them the high value Americans have traditionally placed on equality of opportunity. — Janet Yellen
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word -- politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit. — Emma Thompson
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit. — Fran Lebowitz
Nobody values the truth more highly than a liar. — Albanian Proverbs
Rising Prices Quotes
Do not assume that what investors call momentum, a long streak of either rising or falling prices, will continue unless you can make a sound case that it will. — Edward O. Thorp
Mining should not be too profitable because nothing should be too profitable, the world doesn't leave free money lying around. Therefore the price of Bitcoins can't rise too much above the cost of mining counting equipment depreciation among the costs of course. — Hal Finney
Labor costs are rising in China and it is being rivaled by Thailand and Indonesia, for price if not volume. — Tim Marshall
Along with you, I have witnessed the unfortunate rise in gasoline prices that has accompanied the summer driving season and the more recent spike in prices due to Hurricane Katrina. — Bob Ney
Credit bubbles cause prices to rise; they do not themselves raise prices. — Russell Napier
The price of Bitcoins can’t rise too much above the cost of mining. — Hal Finney
Credit bubbles are created when people believe that asset prices will keep rising indefinitely and that there is no need for caution or restraint. — Russell Napier
A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money. — David Ricardo
But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper. — Michael Shermer
If you look at the way society is structured , it is structured to keep people overwhelmingly in a state of fear and always trying to survive, in terms of physically, in terms of terror, in terms of financially, the credit crunch, rising food prices; all this is survive, survive, survive. — David Icke
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Let me first tell you one thing: It doesn't matter what the world says about Israel; it doesn't matter what they say about us anywhere else. The only thing that matters is that we can exist here on the land of our forefathers. And unless we show the Arabs that there is a high price to pay for murdering Jews, we won't survive. — David Ben-Gurion
Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high morale and community of purpose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history. — David Rockefeller
We can see several companies trying to mix an image of luxury with a mass-market approach. In order to be able to sell a product at a relatively high price, you have to offer the craftsmanship and quality that goes along with it. There’s an increase in products that have approximately the same look as luxury brands while providing a much lower standard. It’s not counterfeiting, but it is misleading. — Bernard Arnault
In order to be able to sell a product at a relatively high price, you have to offer the craftsmanship and quality. — Bernard Arnault
If you think the price of winning is too high, wait till you get the bill from regret. — Tim Grover
Nero, who ruled from 54–68 AD, had found the formula to solve this, which was highly similar to Keynes's solution to Britain's and the U.S.'s problems after World War I: devaluing the currency would at once reduce the real wages of workers, reduce the burden of the government in subsidizing staples, and provide increased money for financing other government expenditure. The aureus coin was reduced from 8 to 7.2 grams, while the denarius's silver content was reduced from 3.9 to 3.41g. This provided some temporary relief, but had set in motion the highly destructive self-reinforcing cycle of popular anger, price controls, coin debasement, and price rises, following one another with the predictable regularity of the four seasons. — Saifedean Ammous
Investment risk comes primarily from too high prices, and too high prices often come from excessive optimism and inadequate skepticism and risk aversion. — Howard S. Marks
If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards. — Paul Bryant
Wonderful, I like cars, too, I like all the great things you can buy in a department store. But when you have to buy them in order to stay unaware, comatose, then the price you pay is too high. — Gudrun Ensslin
I come prepared with the white suit and stethoscope, Listen to your heartbeat, delete beep beep BEEP. Your insurance is high, but my price is cheap. — Kool Keith
Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties. — Lucy Powell
Building the bomb was the single most expensive engineering project in the history of the United States. It began in 1942, and by the time the bomb was tested, inside the White Sands Proving Ground in the New Mexico high desert on July 16, 1945, the bomb’s price tag, adjusted for inflation, was $28,000,000,000. The degree of secrecy maintained while building the bomb is almost inconceivable. — Annie Jacobsen
I can't figure out why anyone invests in active management, so asking me about hedge funds is just an extreme version of the same question. Since I think everything is appropriately priced, my advice would be to avoid high fees. So you can forget about hedge funds. — Eugene Fama
When a market makes a historic high, it is telling you something. No matter how many people tell you why the market shouldn't be that high, or why nothing has changed, the mere fact that the price is at a new high tells you something has changed. — Larry Hite
A small nation, faced with the denial of its sovereignty — indeed, of its very existence — reminded us that the price of freedom is high but never so costly as the loss of freedom. — Ronald Reagan
You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great. — Maya Angelou
It is a deed of greater charity to give a bit of bread to the poor in the time of high prices and famine, than a whole loaf in the time of fertility and abundance. — Christine de Pizan
Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense. — Jeff Bingaman
The atheist risk everything for the present and the future, on the basis of a belief that we are uncaused by any intelligent being. We just happen to be here. That one is willing to live and die in that belief is a very high price to pay for conjecture. — Ravi Zacharias
I've lost a lot. I've lost money, and my reputation has taken a hit for taking the high road to protect my dignity, to protect children, and for other good causes. But I don't think there's ever too steep a price for doing the right thing. — Gabrielle Union
I dont know too many parents that want to feed their kids soda, but high-fructose corn syrup is cheap. The price of soda in 20 years has gone down 40 percent while the price of whole foods, fruits and vegetables, has gone up 40 percent and obesity goes up right along that curve. — Tom Colicchio
The key of success is for you to set one big, challenging goal and then to pay any price, overcome any obstacle and persist through any difficulty until you finally achieve it — Brian Tracy
The price that has to be paid for finding truly personal life is a very high one. It is a price in terms of the acceptance of responsibility. And the awareness of responsibility inevitably leads either to despair or to confession and grace. — Paul Tournier
Nobody fights with Jerry because you know the price would be too high. You might come out the winner, at his age, you might even lick him, but you'd lose an eye, an arm, your testicles in the process, everything would be gone. — Frank Layden
Democracy tends to ignore, even deny, threats to its existence because it loathes doing what is needed to counter them," explained Revel. "It awakens only when the danger becomes deadly, imminent, and evident. By then, either there is too little time left for it to save itself, or the price of survival has become crushingly high. — Jean Francois Revel
Unless a price can be put on carbon emissions that is high enough to force power companies and manufacturers to reduce their fossil-fuel use, there seems to be little chance of avoiding hugely damaging temperature increases — Rajendra K. Pachauri
The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated. — Sun Tzu
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