“The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.” MenWritingHumansEndsMightArtistHumanityForceCreativeClearFateAchieveHe ManCostOrdinarySubtleUrgesVehicleBiographiesGreat ArtCunningUnbornGreat ArtistYokeForces Of NatureHuman Happiness Author:Carl Jung
“No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living, and hours of labor short enough so after his day's work is done he will have time and energy to bear his share in the management of the community, to help in carrying the general load.” MenDoneEnoughHelpingEnergyCommunityHoursShareHe ManBearsCitizensCostLaborManagementSufficientLoadTime And EnergyGood CitizenCost Of Living Book:The Complete Works of Theodore Roosevelt Source: The Complete Works of Theodore Roosevelt
“Inflation is not a Robin Hood, taking from the rich to give to the poor. Rather, it deals most cruelly with those who can least protect themselves. It strikes hardest those millions of our citizens whose incomes do not quickly rise with the cost of living. When prices soar, the pensioner and the widow see their security undermined, the man of thrift sees his savings melt away; the white collar worker, the minister, and the teacher see their standards of living dragged down.” MenGivingWhitePoorDealsMillionsRichTeacherSecurityHe ManCitizensCostProtectStandardsWorkersStrikesIncomeHardestSavingMinistersSoarInflationSavingsHoodWidowsCollarsRobinsStandards Of LivingThriftRobin HoodWhite CollarCost Of Living Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part ... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one another; we have made the men who destroyed and were destroyed! ... We pay the first cost on all human life.” MenFirstsHumansMadeWarPayHe ManCostMajorsGunWeightDestroyedHuman LifeBowsBoomerang Author:Olive Schreiner
“Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.” PeopleMenStillsProcessDemocracyHe ManHigherCostPrejudiceMethodBlameInvestingAcquireSpiteGradesCost Of Living Author:Laurence J. Peter
“A magazine editor recently asked me to sit down on my 40th birthday and write an article on the most important things I had learned in my first 40 years. I told him that the chief thing I had learned was that the copybook maxims are true, but that too many people forget this once they go out into the heat and hustle and bustle of the battle of life and only realize their truth once one foot is beginning to slip into the grave. The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.” PeopleMenWritingYearsFirstsImportantRealizingForgetMillionsFeetHe ManBattleCostConscienceImportant ThingsGravesMagazinesChiefsHeatEditorsArticlesSlipsMaximsHustleBustle40th BirthdayBattle Of LifeHustle And BustleMagazine Editors Author:B. C. Forbes
“The men, who labour and digest things most, Will be much apter to despond than boast; For if your author be profoundly good, 'Twill cost you dear before he's understood.” IfsMenHe ManCostUnderstoodDearLabourBoastAuthorship Book:An essay on translated verse Source: An essay on translated verse
“The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.” MenWantRealValuesBusinessTroubleHe ManCostAcquireToil Author:Adam Smith
“The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities. The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.” MenWantMeanPersonsRealUseValuesTroubleHe ManCostEqualCommandAcquireLabourQuantityCommodityToil Book:The Wealth of Nations Source: The Wealth of Nations
“Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he's got to keep running or bust!” MenRunningStrongDifficultHe ManCostIntelligentCompetitionConservativeIgnorantCompetitorsHolding OnEyelidsKeep Running Author:John D. Rockefeller