Fees Quotes - Page 6

• When I see people of my likeness, or who are somebody that I feel connected to, doing something great, I fee like I can do it. It gives me some hope and vision.

  Common

  People, Giving, Vision

  Source: collider.com

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• Even non-commercial media rely on transferring cost to users through licence fees, donations from listeners, viewers, or readers, or grants from companies and foundations that have wrestled their funds from the public in some form of earlier commercial activity.

  Robert G. Picard

  Media, Foundation, Cost

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• At today's prices for medicines, doctors and hospitals-if the latter are available at any price-only millionaires can afford to be hurt or sick and pay for it. Very few people want socialized medicine in the U.S. But pressure for it is going to appear with the same hurricane force as the demand for pollution control if the medicine men and hospital operators don't take soon some Draconian measures... At the present rate of doctor fees and hospital costs under Medicare and Medicaid plans [taxpayers] are shovelling in billions with nothing but escalation in sight.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Hurt, Men, Doctors

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• Without alcohol I'd be richer by two million dollars that went to pay lawyer's fees.

  Grace Slick

  Two, Alcohol, Dollars

  Grace Slick, Andrea Cagan (2008). “Somebody to Love?: A Rock-and-Roll Memoir”, p.65, Hachette UK

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• A mild attack of apoplexy may be called death's retaining fee.

  Gilles Menage

  May, Retaining

  Menagiana Pt II

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• The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. Properly attended to, fuller justice is done to both lawyer and client.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Justice, Important, Done

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.44, Penguin

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• As a general rule never take your whole fee in advance, nor any more than a small retainer. When fully paid beforehand, you are more than a common mortal if you can feel the same interest in the case, as if something was still in prospect for you, as well as for your client.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Clients, Common, Cases

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.52, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When the artless doctor sees
  No one hope, but of his fees,
  And his skill runs on the lees;
  Sweet Spirit, comfort me!
  When his potion and his pill,
  Has, or none, or little skill,
  Meet for nothing, but to kill;
  Sweet Spirit, comfort me!

  Robert Herrick

  Running, Sweet, Doctors

  'His Litany to the Holy Spirit'

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• We're going to build a wall. Donald Trump never said it's going to go from one end of the country, from the Gulf to the Pacific, and he'll use good judgment about that. And there are ways, through tax and regulation policies, that we can - and immigrant fees - that this could be paid for. I have not studied the details of it but, absolutely, I think that is possible.

  Jeff Sessions

  Country, Wall, Thinking

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• Divorce is the biggest drain, outside of school fees, and nobody wins. People think it is always in the woman's favour, but it is not necessarily.

  Anthea Turner

  School, Divorce, Winning

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• In the developing world, they don't have smartphones yet. They have the older plastic phones, but women are saving money on those, because they don't have access to banks. Having that access to digital money changes everything for her because she actually doesn't have to negotiate with her husband, which she will tell you is very hard in these circumstances, especially when the means are meager. She's expected to have money to pay for the kids' health or to help with the school fees.

  Melinda Gates

  Husband, School, Mean

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• I used to wonder why people should be so fond of the company of their physician, till I recollected that he is the only person with whom one dares to talk continually of oneself, without interruption, contradiction or censure; I suppose that delightful immunity doubles their fees.

  Hannah More

  People, Physicians, Wonder

  William Roberts, Hannah More (1835). “Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More”, p.317

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• Of Ickworth's boys, their father's joys,
  There is but one a bad one;
  The tenth is he, the parson's fee,
  And indeed he is a sad one.
  No love of fame, no sense of shame,
  And a bad heart, let me tell ye:
  Without, all brass; within, all ass,
  And the puppy's name is Felly.

  Horace Walpole

  Father, Heart, Boys

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• The use of the word royalty, as fee to a proprietor for the exploitation of a work or property, derives from the period when the sovereign assumed title to all wealth of the realm. It was the struggle for freedom from these encroachments of the state that chiefly marked the Nineteenth Century, and established everywhere constitutional regimes of limited authority. In the Twentieth Century, however, we have witnessed a gradual and almost unrestricted movement back to state authoritarianism, primarily in the economic sphere, accompanied by the spread of state monopoly and intervention.

  Elgin Groseclose

  Struggle, Sovereign, Spheres

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• The expenses of the paperwork and court fees involved in pursuing the appeal through the courts were not too high. In fact, as I recall, removing prayer from U.S. public schools cost less than $20,000... no Christian organization filed a brief in support of our opponents.

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

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• In Mexico, a poor country, higher education is of quite good quality -- and is free. Ten years ago the government tried to impose small fees. There was a national student strike and the government backed down. High tuition is not an economic necessity, as is easy to show, but a debt trap is a good technique of indoctrination and control. And resisting this makes good sense.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Government, Years

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• The bankers might not have said it in so many words, but gradually their strategy emerged: Target families who were already in a little trouble, lend them more money, get them entangled in high fees and astronomical interest rates, and then block the doors to the bankruptcy exit if they really got in over their heads.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Block, Doors, Bankers

  Elizabeth Warren (2014). “A Fighting Chance”, p.44, Metropolitan Books

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• I'm the only girl songwriter that fights for a lot of things. I fight for songwriting fees, which record labels want you to shut up about.

  Ester Dean

  Girl, Fighting, Labels

  "Hitmaker Ester Dean on Songwriting, Fighting and Eating Hot Dogs (Q&A)". Interview with Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 6, 2013.

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• I can't figure out why anyone invests in active management, so asking me about hedge funds is just an extreme version of the same question. Since I think everything is appropriately priced, my advice would be to avoid high fees. So you can forget about hedge funds.

  Eugene Fama

  Thinking, Advice, Would Be

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• Experience conclusively shows that index-fund buyers are likely to obtain results exceeding those of the typical fund manager, whose large advisory fees and substantial portfolio turnover tend to reduce investment yields. Many people will find the guarantee of playing the stock-market game at par every round a very attractive one. The index fund is a sensible, serviceable method for obtaining the market's rate of return with absolutely no effort and minimal expense.

  Burton Malkiel

  Yield, Games, People

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• Most active mutual funds are more interested in collecting fees than in boosting returns for investors.

  David F. Swensen

  Investing, Return, Mutual Fund

  "Yale’s Swensen Says Index Funds Best Plan for Most Investors" by Kelly Bit, www.bloomberg.com. January 31, 2012.

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• When you look at the results on an after-fee, after-tax basis over reasonably long periods of time, there's almost no chance that you end up beating the index fund.

  David F. Swensen

  Long, Looks, Investing

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• There is no reason to feel any shame in hiring someone to pick stocks or mutual funds for you. But there's one responsibility that you must never delegate. You, and no one but you, must investigate whether an adviser is trustworthy and charges reasonable fees.

  Benjamin Graham

  Responsibility, Investing, Shame

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• If fees consume more than 1% of your assets annually, you should probably shop for another adviser.

  Benjamin Graham

  Investing, Assets, Should

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• Suppose you were a real estate investor with a 1/3 interest in the best apartment complex in town, the best mall, and the best office building. Would you feel like a poor, undiversified investor? No! But as soon as you get into stocks, people feel this way. Partly, people need to justify their fees.

  Charlie Munger

  Real, Office, People

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