#bargain

Our standard rate. A doubloon a day." It was generous. More than generous--some families would put him up for a week for a single coin. "Half a doubloon a day," she said. "No, you see, the idea behind bargaining is that you ask for a larger amount. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#declan #ilona-andrews #on-the-edge #rose #family

If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain. ↗

— William Vickrey

#bargain #brought #cost #could #down

The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated. ↗

— B. C. Forbes

#bargain #mutual #only #repeated #satisfaction

Large corporations and unions know the power of being big enough to bargain for better rates. ↗

— Greg Walden

#being #better #big #big enough #corporations

To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#deductible #man #sell #something #tell

Altogether apart from that, it would be a disgrace to us to make this bargain with Germany at the expense of France, a disgrace from which the good name of this country would never recover. ↗

— Edward Grey

#apart #bargain #country #disgrace #expense

Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#bargain #customer #losing #money #store

Man, an animal that makes bargains. ↗

— A. C. Benson

#bargains #makes #man

All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#bargain #conclude #deception #end #infatuated

Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back? ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#back #bargains #been #benefit #carry