“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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writer from the United States 1916–1986Related quotes
“Who can measure the worth of a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo or Beethoven in dollars and cents?”
The Principles of Anarchism
Introduction to the 2006 Verso Edition, p. xi
The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition)
“Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.”
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.”
Lucien Stryk. Encounter with Zen: writings on poetry and Zen, 1981. p. 66.
“The elegant simplicity of the three per cents.”
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.”
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.
Source: The 80/20 principle: the secret of achieving more with less (1999), p. 103