“The grim irony of investing, then, is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we get precisely what we don't pay for. So if we pay for nothing, we get everything.”

“Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We have to pay for a place to sleep, and we have to pay for food. If we don't, people with guns come and force us to pay. That's violent.”

“For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won.”

“We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.”

“The Universe operates on a basic principle of economics: everything has its cost. We pay to create our future, we pay for the mistakes of the past. We pay for every change we make . . . and we pay just as dearly if we refuse to change.”

“Maybe we should stop asking how do we get people to pay for music, and start asking how do we let them pay for music? from Ted Talk”