Plautus Quotes

To make any gain some outlay is necessary.

If I have nothing to sacrifice, I have nothing to gain.

There's always a price for what you want.

'There are no easy pickings.' That would be a more accurate, less dramatic statement than 'There's no such thing as a free lunch.'

Nothing comes without a price.

You can win, it'll just cost you some money.

You must spend money to make money.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

Why take the pay-per-view gamble? I don't need to do that.

Price is what you pay, but value, as Warren Buffett has observed, is what you get.

I think when you invest a lot, you earn your rewards.

Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.

The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us

To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.

You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

Nothing of value is free.

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

Even money has a price.

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

If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost.

Whatever you compromise to gain, you will lose.

What you gain here, you lose on the other side.