It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Everyone has the idea of owning good companies. The problem is that they have high prices in relations to assets and earnings,… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Big companies such as Google and Facebook buy startups at ridiculously high prices - not for their products, but for their people. — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
If Congress continues to sit on its hands, and the drug companies continue to stash cash in their stockings, Americans will be… — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
I would explain to my children very simply that the defense of liberty is a cause that exacts a very high price… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Regulation has gone astray. . . . Either because they have become captives of regulated industries or captains of outmoded administrative agencies,… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Let me first tell you one thing: It doesn't matter what the world says about Israel; it doesn't matter what they say… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
Furthermore, the situation in the North Caucasus is rather unstable. Mutual relations and the cooperation between [Vladimir] Putin and [Ramzan] Kadyrov, the… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The true cost of the pollution that is being dumped into the atmosphere and manifests itself in our sick children dealing with… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
It's easy to talk about our system not functioning. It's actually functioning exactly the way we've designed it to function by giving… — Mickey Edwards Copy Share Image
In the course of history no people have ever been given freedom like a present, and if freedom did not cost anything… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The effect of metals speculation was to push up the prices that China had to pay to countries like Australia. This squeezed… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
We've got to temper anything we say with that. On the other hand, you've got to be serious about what you do.… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Nearly all our ills are the result of neglect in some way or other. And this truth may be said to apply… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every… — Moshe Dayan Copy Share Image
We have this highly irrational system of incentivizing innovation for clean and green technologies, where we allow the innovator to have a… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
It is irrational to charge high prices for socially valuable innovations as this guarantees that they will be underutilized. It is much… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
It's people wanting to do something about global climate change. People fed up with the high price of gas. People tired of… — Ed Begley, Jr Copy Share Image
We know the power of the U.S.. We do not fool ourselves about this power. We say that the U.S. government wants… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
You can't tell me you can make any system or country work with low wages and high prices, and high wages with… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
In England, all the English car companies were beginning to circle the drain in a series of well-deserved failures and bankruptcies, earned… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I've had investigations of my lab because people didn't like what I had to say. And when you have investigations and you're… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
“The criminals at the North make us sell our wheat and cotton to Europe at cheap prices, but will not permit us… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
High prices can be the result of speculation, and maybe plunging prices can be attributed to the end of speculation, but low… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Intellect needs to be understood not as some kind of claim against the other human excellences for which a fatally high price… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image