“Three cents’ worth of squeeze bottles, plus two cents’ worth of homogenized goo, plus prime-time television equals 28 million annual sales at 69 cents each. This is the heartbeat of industrial America.”
Travis McGee series, (1964)
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“Who can measure the worth of a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo or Beethoven in dollars and cents?”
Lucy Parsons (1853–1942) American communist anarchist labor organizer
The Principles of Anarchism
David Harvey (1935) British anthropologist
Introduction to the 2006 Verso Edition, p. xi
The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition)
“Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.”
Alfred Bester book The Stars My Destination
Variant: Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.
Source: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 16 (p. 253).
“South of Mount Sumeru
Who understands my Zen?
Call Master Kido over-
He's not worth a cent.”
Ikkyu (1394–1481) Japanese Buddhist monk
Lucien Stryk. Encounter with Zen: writings on poetry and Zen, 1981. p. 66.
“The elegant simplicity of the three per cents.”
William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell (1745–1836) British politician
As quoted in Lives of the Lord Chancellors (1845) by John Campbell, Vol. x. Chap. 212; this precedes the use by Benjamin Disraeli of "The sweet simplicity of the three per cents", in Endymion (1880).
“The sweet simplicity of the three per cents.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Source: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 96. Compare: "The elegant simplicity of the three per cents", Lord Stowell, in Lives of the Lord Chancellors (Campbell), Vol. x, Chap. 212.
Richard Koch (1950) German medical historian and internist
Source: The 80/20 principle: the secret of achieving more with less (1999), p. 103