Hidden Cost Quotes

Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the menu.

Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.

Free lunches don't come cheap.

Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless.

Cash imposes a huge burden. We don't understand it, as it is not immediately visible. It is a huge burden on society.

I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

There is no such thing as a free lunch.

What you get free costs too much.

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

Buy Space Ghost cereal, but don't eat the prizes.

There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease.

Cheap food is an illusion. There is no such thing as cheap food. The real cost of the food is paid somewhere. And if it isn't paid at the cash register, it's charged to the environment or to the public purse in the form of subsidies. And it's charged to your health.

There's no such thing as a free launch.

You can't get something for nothing. Everybody remembers this except politicians.

He'd once heard a story about a monastery on the top of some mountain in Japan or somewhere. After a long trek in the cold to get there, the monks would offer to sell you a cup of coffee. You had a choice: There was a two-dollar cup - or a two-hundred- dollar cup. When pressed to explain the difference, the monks were reported to say, 'A hundred and ninety-eight dollars.'

You're damned in success a little bit.

There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.

Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.

And once you cross over into that world, no matter how strong you are, you have to pay the price.