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“Harold, the young kids out there are not going to be willing to go to the barricades in defense of lowered transaction costs.”

Kids Young Willing Cost Defense Transactions Barricades

Author:Murray Rothbard

“When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.”

Hours Willing Duty Cost Slavery

Book:Lincoln's Words: Sentiments from the 16th President of the United States

Source: Lincoln's Words: Sentiments from the 16th President of the United States

“Character is not only doing the right thing when no one is looking, it's doing the right thing when everyone is looking. It's being willing to do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.”

Want Character Pay Willing Cost Right Thing Doing The Right Thing

Author:Michael Josephson

“On the Internet, there are an unlimited number of competitors. Anybody with a Flip camera is your competition. What makes it even worse is that YouTube is willing to subsidize the cost of your bandwidth. So anybody can create and distribute for free basically, but the real cost is marketing. And that's always the big cost - how do you stand out and what's the cost of standing out? And there's no limit to that cost.”

Real Bigs Numbers Willing Internet Cost Limits Standing Cameras Competition Marketing Unlimited Standing Out Competitors Youtube Flip Bandwidth

Author:Mark Cuban

“We must recognize that the goal of a cleaner environment will not be achieved by rhetoric or moral dedication alone. It will not be cheap or easy and the costs will have to be borne by each citizen, consumer and taxpayer. How clean is clean enough can only be answered in terms of how much we are willing to pay and how soon we seek success... It is simplistic to seek ecological perfection at the cost of bankrupting the very tax-paying enterprises which must pay for the social advances we seek.”

“For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.”

Knows May Whole Truth Spirit Worst Honesty Willing Integrity Cost Planning Anguish Sirens Whole Truth Painful Truth

Author:Patrick Henry

“J.P. Morgan once had a friend who was so worried about his stock holdings that he could not sleep at night. The friend asked, 'What should I do about my stocks?' Morgan replied, 'Sell down to your sleeping point' Every investor must decide the trade-off he or she is willing to make between eating well and sleeping well. High investment rewards can only be achieved at the cost of substantial risk-taking. So what is your sleeping point? Finding the answer to this question is one of the most important investment steps you must take.”

Should Wells Important Night Sleep Answers Steps Risk Willing Cost Findings Eating Trade Sells Investment Rewards Worried Investors Should I Risk-taking Trade Offs Eating Well

Author:Burton Malkiel

“You must be willing to protect yourself and what you cherish, no matter what the cost.”

Matter Willing Cost Protect No Matter What Cherish Protect Yourself Murtagh

Book:The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

“We're guessing at our future opportunity cost. Warrenis guessing that he'll have the opportunity to put capital out at high rates of return, so he's not willing to put it out at less than 10% now. But if we knew interest rates would stay at 1%, we'd change. Our hurdles reflect our estimate of future opportunity costs.”

Ifs Opportunity Interest Willing Return Cost Rate Our Future Guessing Interest Rate Hurdle Opportunity Cost

Author:Charlie Munger

“Followers of Jesus who count the cost and are willing to take up their crosses after him must have broad shoulders.”

Jesus Willing Cost Crosses Shoulders Broads Followers

Book:Fool's Talk: Recovering the Art of Christian Persuasion

Source: Fool's Talk: Recovering the Art of Christian Persuasion

“In the film world, we can all be heroes. In the real world, where heroism can cost you your life or the life of the ones you love, people aren't so willing to make those sacrifices. When they do, they are set apart from the rest of us.”

People World Real Film Sacrifice Willing Hero Cost Real World Heroism

Author:John Rhys-Davies

“Treatment is not now available for almost half of those who would benefit from it. Yet we are willing to build more and more jails in which to isolate drug users even though at one-seventh the cost of building and maintaining jail space and pursuing, detaining, and prosecuting the drug user, we could subsidize commensurately effective medical care and psychological treatment.”

Care Space Half Building Willing Cost Drug Benefits Available Medical Psychological Treatment Jail Users Maintaining Medical Care Prosecuting Detaining

Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

“We could not bring democracy to South Vietnam at a cost that we were willing to accept. So it was a disaster. That' is the left extreme.”

Left Accepting Democracy Willing Cost South Extremes Disaster Vietnam

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Obviously cheap sentimentality isn't something any good novelist wants to traffic in, but I think it's a problem if you consider it to be the most egregious of all creative sins. I think it's a problem if you consider it the thing to be avoided at all cost. I think it's a problem of you're not willing to risk the consequences of that kind of emotionalism under any circumstances. Then you wind up in the cul-de-sac of irony.”

Ifs Thinking Want Kind Problem Sin Creative Risk Willing Wind Circumstances Cost Consequence Irony Novelists Traffic Avoided Sentimentality

Author:Steve Erickson