You don’t pay the same price for a Ferrari as you do for a Honda Accord. But for some reason, for movie tickets, you’re asked to pay the same price for ‘Avatar’ as you are for some $2 million movie, which is kind of a weird thing when you think about it.
When Obama was inaugurated, he and his team had an insight – though whether the insight was conscious or not I don’t know. But it was this: The TARP $700 billion price tag was a new kind of model.
The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body.
If we bankrupt America, we will all pay the price.
Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will outsell the other.
I’m investing. I’m taking a lot of bitcoin, selling it as the price goes up, and putting it into real estate. Because then if bitcoin goes to zero – which, it’s an experiment, it could – I won’t be on the street.
We pay a price when special interests win out over the collective national interest.
Finally, people are starting to recognize freedom and peace do have a cause, they do have a price.
Wars of necessity are essentially unavoidable. They involve the most important national interests, a lack of promising alternatives to the use of force, and a certain and considerable price to be paid if the status quo is allowed to stand. Examples include World War II and the Korean War.
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
It is no small thing for an American to be able to go into a fast-food restaurant and to buy a double cheeseburger, fries, and a large Coke for a price equal to less than an hour of labor at the minimum wage – indeed, in the long sweep of history, this represents a remarkable achievement.
Everyone in the Chinese economic world knows that the country is not going to move out of cheap-workhouse status, toward the realm of ‘real’ rich-country corporate power and prosperity, unless (among other changes) it begins removing these price distortions.
Over time, there’s a very close correlation between what happens to the dollar and what happens to the price of oil. When the dollar gets week, the price of oil, which, as you know, and other commodities are denominated in dollars, they go up. We saw it in the ’70s, when the dollar was savagely weakened.
One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people’s lives without having to pay the price.
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.
There’s been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States there’s a price to pay.
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.
Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn’t have prosecuted the war. We shouldn’t have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.
By the 1980s, businesses had realized that environmental issues had a price tag. Increasingly, they balked. Reflexively, the anticorporate Left pivoted; Earth Day, erstwhile snow job, became an opportunity to denounce capitalist greed.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Understand: as children and young adults, we are taught to conform to certain codes of behavior and ways of doing things. We learn that being different comes with a social price.
If we did go into a recession, something that’s always possible for the U.S. or Europe, we could lower interest rates and expand the money supply without worrying about the price of gold.
For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It’s distressing, but there you are.
In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren’t going to make money in the long term.
It’s true that I don’t rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the order of one event then you have to call it fiction or you get all the credits of non-fiction without paying the price.
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
What does it mean to be a conservative? I don’t even know anymore. I know what it means to me. It means to me, personal responsibility. That if I’ve done something wrong, its up to me to pay the price. It’s up to me to make it right.
We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustration and poverty, we must expect to pay the price.
There’s always a price for what you want.
A premium in the oil price of somewhere between 10 to 15 dollars a barrel reflects this heightened anxiety.
The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there’s a single numeric average. But if it’s a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that’s crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.
You cannot have an asset that goes up in price 1% every month or 1% every six months or every day without people starting to start thinking it’ll do the same tomorrow, so that’s why these bubbles form.
The crew members for ‘The Price Is Right’ at night are the same guys who work ‘Y&R’ during the day. It’s even in the same studio. I’ve been in the place for 15 years. So all the faces at ‘The Price Is Right’ are familiar.
Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.
I have a wardrobe full of scarves now, just about every color under the sun. My trick is that I always cut them in two, down the middle. They’re lighter, thinner, skinnier that way. And because I’m cheap, I get two scarves for the price of one.
The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions all has a single, very simple solution… Here it is: Put a price on carbon.
I bought my wife a beautiful diamond ring and I even had it engraved – with the price.
The automatic bread maker is not as good as breads made by hand, but waking up to the smell of fresh bread is worth the price of admission. We use it for fresh cinnamon raisin toast – mmmmmmm!
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I’ve been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, ‘Let’s look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients’ unnecessary suffering.’
Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has paid for being world conquerors.
Most of the population cannot afford a private driver. What we’re doing is relentlessly innovating to bring the price point down.
Nothing good ever happens by itself – it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price.
You don’t want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.
I’m a complete addict of The ‘X Factor,’ so I can see why everyone gets so inspired. But there’s a downside to celebrity: your life is up for grabs, your career is much more disposable, and you are therefore vulnerable. It’s a high price to pay.
I don’t understand how it’s cheaper to buy a whole steak at the Price Club than spinach. How did that happen?
I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.
People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone – but that’s a price you pay.
Diversity of form factor matters, and not compromising either form factor. You need diversity of price point. That’s quite important.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
When I entered the market, I was rejected because the elite say that you have to sell things at a certain price point. My position was that the consumer is smarter than that. Who cares if it’s $200, not $2,000?
