Quotes and Sayings about Bargain

 

 

"Man, an animal that makes bargains."
- A. C. Benson
(Related: Man)

"I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Life, Time, Work, Bargain, Nothing, Trade)

"All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices."
- Adelbert von Chamisso
(Related: Bargain, Deception, End, Parents)

"I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight."
- Roy M. Cohn
(Related: Fight, Letters)

"Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."
- William Cowper
(Related: Happiness, Life, Purpose, Bargain, Existence)

"What I'm saying is that there are bargains right now, there are stocks right now that if you're shrewd enough, you will be able to buy them at the opening today and I you'll make money in a year from now."
- Jim Cramer
(Related: Money, Now, Right, Saying, Today, Will)

"I've not as yet found one hobby that would absorb me completely when I'm not working, but I have just bought a new apartment and didn't quite bargain for the amount of effort and time and money that that absorbs."
- Hugh Dancy
(Related: Money, Time, Bargain, Effort)

"You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do."
- Rebecca H. Davis
(Related: Time, Heart, Bargain, Driving, Will, World)

"There is no victory at bargain basement prices."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(Related: Victory, Bargain)

"I've been in the bargain basement of the movie business."
- Linda Fiorentino
(Related: Business, Bargain)

"The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated."
- B. C. Forbes
(Related: Bargain, Satisfaction)

"There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant."
- Anatole France
(Related: People, Bargain)

"Necessity never made a good bargain."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Bargain, Necessity)

"Altogether apart from that, it would be a disgrace to us to make this bargain with Germany at the expense of France, a disgrace from which the good name of this country would never recover."
- Edward Grey
(Related: Bargain, Country, Disgrace, France, Germany, Name)

"The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either."
- Edward Grey
(Related: Bargain, Belgium, Effect, Interest, Neutrality, Obligation)

"The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer."
- Robin Gross
(Related: Artist, Balance, Rights, Protection)

"I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing."
- Judy Holliday
(Related: Time, Money, Hollywood, Yesterday)

"Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Money, Bargain, Customer, Losing)

"As I learn more and more about the six-year extension of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, it's obvious to me that NFL owners understood that they were going to get a new deal done at all costs."
- Ron Jaworski
(Related: Agreement, Obvious)

"A bargain is something you can't use at a price you can't resist."
- Franklin Jones
(Related: Bargain)

"If we ever hope to rid the world of the political AIDS of our time, terrorism, the rule must be clear: One does not deal with terrorists; one does not bargain with terrorists; one kills terrorists."
- Meir Kahane
(Related: Time, Hope, Bargain, Terrorism, World)

"In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization."
- John L. Lewis
(Related: Committee, Corporations, Wage)

"Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction."
- Alphonsus Liguori
(Related: Health, Ability, Destruction)

"Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?"
- Henry Cabot Lodge
(Related: Peace, Purpose, Ideals, World)

"New Hampshire state government is a big customer for prescription drug companies. Just as businesses do, we should take advantage of the bargaining power we have as a big customer."
- John Lynch
(Related: Government, Power, Customer, State)

"While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position."
- Christopher Marlowe
(Related: Money, Love)

"Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position."
- Christopher Marlowe
(Related: Money, Love)

"By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe."
- Robert Menendez
(Related: Bargain, End, Projects)

"The Question to be considered is, Whether the Government have reason by a Law, to prohibit the taking more than 4 l. per cent Interest for Money lent, or to leave the Borrower and Lender to make their own Bargains."
- Dudley North
(Related: Government, Money, Interest, Law, Lent, Question, Reason)

"Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining."
- Philo
(Related: Giving, Honor)

"The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail."
- Elliot Richardson
(Related: Chance, Conviction, First, Presidency, President, Vice)

"Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain."
- Marquis de Sade
(Related: Bargain, Liberty, Order)

"Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table."
- George Schultz
(Related: Power, Shadow)

"Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good."
- Paul Simon
(Related: Artist, Bargain, Being, First)

"Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another."
- Adam Smith
(Related: Man)

"Americans love our shoes and us Brits love that we can always pick up a bargain when in the US."
- Lisa Snowdon
(Related: Love, Americans, Bargain)

"I think I'm slightly impulsive, sometimes organised and always in search of a bargain!"
- Lisa Snowdon
"We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership."
- Theodore C. Sorensen
(Related: Leadership, Giving, Treatment)

"Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for."
- Stanislaus I
(Related: Courage, Bargain, Difficulty)

"The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer."
- Andy Stern
(Related: Strength, Bargain, Workers)

"When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain."
- Laurence Sterne
(Related: Bargain, Man, Mind)

"I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."
- Adlai Stevenson
(Related: Truth, Bargain, Democrats, Lies, Republicans, Will)

"I also believe our country made a promise to veterans and their families. Veterans have kept their end of the bargain, and now, the VA is looking to pull out the rug."
- Ellen Tauscher
(Related: Bargain, Country, End, Now, Promise, Veterans)

"This mass destructive weapons were sold to Iraqi government by the United States. And Mr. Rumsfeld has been one of the man responsible for this sale, for this bargain, for this market."
- Jacques Verges
(Related: Government, Bargain, Man, states, United, Weapons)

"If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain."
- William Vickrey
(Related: Bargain, Inflation, Unemployment)

"Large corporations and unions know the power of being big enough to bargain for better rates."
- Greg Walden
(Related: Power, Bargain, Being, Corporations)

"The only sound approach to collective bargaining is to work out an agreement that clarifies the rights and responsibilities of the parties, establishes principles and operates to the advantage of all concerned."
- Charles E. Wilson
(Related: Work, Agreement, Rights, Principles, Sound)

"Unfortunately, in collective bargaining one party or the other too often tries to gain an advantage - a bargain, like buying something in a store for less than it is worth."
- Charles E. Wilson
(Related: Bargain, Buying, Party, Worth)

"Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can reduce them without of the consent of the union."
- Charles E. Wilson
(Related: People, Rights, Wages)

"To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: Bargain, Man, Woman)