If we continue to print new paychecks at the rate we've been adding them, that mitigates a lot of the damage of higher gasoline prices.
In the States, entrepreneurs inspire a lot of people and are respected for creating jobs. That makes people dream and feel happy for their country.
Those things you can buy have no value but have a price. Those things you cannot buy have value and are priceless.
I resent when I go out to dinner and they try to sell me the healthy food for the same price as the good food.
We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price.
The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.
Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks.
Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.
My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.
It is time to move on. House prices won't rise and the economy won't fully engage until more distressed properties are resolved and put back into ordinary use.
What turned me on then, and turns me on even today - and when the time comes from me to retire from management I think I'd still be interested in it - is that everything that happens in the world affects the price of securities.
Some of the higher price of L.A. real estate does reflect the intrinsic pleasure of living there, as I'm reminded every time I walk out my door into the perfect weather.
Sarah Livingstone - Sociologist: [about Nigerian scams on the Prawns] ... where they sold cat food to the aliens for exorbitant prices.
Stu Price: She's got my grandmother's Holocaust ring! Alan Garner: I didn't know they gave out rings at the Holocaust.
Stu Price: Ew! Alan, did you just eat sofa pizza? Alan Garner: Yes.
Stu Price: That's my grandma's ring. She made it all the way through the holocaust with that thing. It's legit.
Stu Price: This does not seem fair. Phil Wenneck: It's rock-paper-scissors. There's nothin' more fair.
Cobb: [notices that he's being followed] That price on my head, was that dead or alive? Eames: Not sure. See if he starts shooting.
Alfred Borden: See, sacrifice, Robert. That's the price of a good trick. But you wouldn't know anything about that, would you?
But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money.
Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.
