Premium Quotes

• If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.

  Branch Rickey

  Zest, Effort, Joy

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• Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

  William Penn

  Life, Law, Justice

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• Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Success, Business

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• Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Mean, Greatness, Ends

  Margaret Chase Smith (1972). “Declaration of Conscience”

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• Charging a premium amount allows me to offer a premium service.

  Ramit Sethi

  Charging, Offers, Amount

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• Don't be different. Different scares people. People won't spend their money on different. They will, however, pay a premium for unique.

  Larry Winget

  Unique, People, Scare

  Larry Winget (2007). “It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault”, p.115, Penguin

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• Premium will increasingly be defined in terms of sustainability and environmental compatibility

  Norbert Reithofer

  Business, Environmental, Management

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• One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

  Gail Godwin

  Friendship, Appreciation, Appreciate

  Gail Godwin (2011). “The Finishing School”, p.5, Ballantine Books

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• Looking good is important. We're our own premium brand as professional athletes, so you want to be thoughtful about presentation and represent yourself and your city and sport as best you can.

  C. J. Wilson

  Sports, Athlete, Thoughtful

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more.

  André Aciman

  Agency, Needs, Pay

  André Aciman (2008). “Call Me by Your Name: A Novel”, p.162, Macmillan

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• A premium support program is different than a voucher program. They're just fundamentally different.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Support, Different, Program

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• Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing.

  Matthew Kelly

  Self, Expression, Culture

  Matthew Kelly (2003). “Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star”, p.18, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• I think that in an increasingly virtual world, lovingly produced artefacts are at a premium.

  Alan Moore

  Thinking, World, Artefacts

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• We put a premium on knowing what the other team does. Then we try to take them out of it.

  P. J. Carlesimo

  Basketball, Team, Knowing

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• I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas. It's so easy to confuse schmoozing ability with talent. Someone seems like a good presenter, easy to get along with, and those traits are rewarded. Well, why is that? They're valuable traits, but we put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking.

  Susan Cain

  Thinking, Ideas, Worry

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• People are human. There's such a premium today on being perfect. That's just not the way people are.

  Rob Lowe

  People, Perfect, Today

  "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.

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• We put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking.

  Susan Cain

  Thinking, Substance, Too Much

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.52, Broadway Books

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• I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.

  Richard E. Grant

  Loyalty, Forgiving, Impossible

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• I don’t remember saying that everybody in the country would have a lower premium.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Country, Remember

  Nancy Pelosi's Press Conference in the Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, D.C., www.democraticleader.gov. June 6, 2013.

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• Women want their love to be reciprocated in the same way they give it; they want their romantic lives to be as rewarding as they make them for their potential mates; they want the emotions that they turn on full blast to be met with the same intensity; and they expect the premium they put on commitment to be equally adhered to, valued, and respected.

  Steve Harvey

  Commitment, Giving, Want

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• In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life.

  Shaffi Mather

  Men, Giving, Battle

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• Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.

  H. G. Wells

  Needs, Outcomes, Time Machine

  H G Wells (2004). “The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.21, Sparklesoup LLC

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• Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life -- the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure -- had gone steadily on to a climax... And the harvest was what I saw.

  H. G. Wells

  Needs, Gone, Outcomes

  H. G. Wells “The Time Machine”, Games by CC

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• The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were not adapted to the intelligibility of the world. The match between our intelligence and the intelligibility of the world is no accident. Nor can it properly be attributed to natural selection, which places a premium on survival and reproduction and has no stake in truth or conscious thought. Indeed, meat-puppet robots are just fine as the output of a Darwinian evolutionary process.

  William A. Dembski

  Serendipity, Survival, Meat

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• The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind, secretly lives on in the story. The first true storyteller is, and will continue to be, the teller of fairy tales. Whenever good counsel was at a premium, the fairy tale had it, and where the need was greatest, its aid was nearest. This need was created by myth. The fairy tale tells us of the earliest arrangements that mankind made to shake off the nightmare which myth had placed upon its chest.

  Walter Benjamin

  Children, Needs, Stories

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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