Erich Maria Remarque Quotes

Anything that just costs money is cheap.

If there is no price to be paid, it is also not of value.

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

I'm not cheap but I'm not unaffordable.

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

A shilling life will give you all the facts.

We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

Everything we make in life, eventually, is sold for a dollar or a penny or given away.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

It's interesting to know how much you are worth.

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.

Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.

That which costs little is less valued.

A cent is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. Its value is in the necessities of the animal man. It is so much warmth, so much bread, so much water, so much land.

If Money were given to a People in greater Quantity than there was a Demand for, Money would fall in its value; but if only given equal to the Demand, it will not fall in value.

People are often reproached because their desires are directed mainly to money and they are fonder of it than of anything else. Yet it is natural and even inevitable …. every other blessing can satisfy only one desire and one need; for instance, food is good only to the hungry, wine only for the healthy, medicine for the sick, a fur coat for winter, women for youth, and so on... Money alone is the absolutely good thing because it meets not merely one need in concreto, but needs generally in abstracto.

Everything and anything is valuable.

An organization believes in me to where I'm worth $163 million, possibly $200 million. When you put it in that form, the responsibility hits home.

Money is just paper that gets us through life.

Understand the acute difference between the cost of something and the value of something.

Everything has a price.