These cheap quotes will inspire you. Cheap, not costing much, or (of an item for sale) low in price; worth more than its cost.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging cheap quotes, cheap sayings, and cheap proverbs.
Best Cheap Quotes
- “I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.” ~ Brendan Behan
- “Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry.” ~ John Lennon
- “Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.” ~ Quentin Crisp
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“We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.” ~ Hayao Miyazaki
- “Learn every day, but especially from the experiences of others. It’s cheaper!” ~ John C. Bogle
- “By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms.” ~ Vinod Khosla
- “When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.” ~ Pablo Picasso
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“A rich man is one who isn’t afraid to ask the salesperson to show him something cheaper.” ~ Jack Benny
- “You’re a slave in your own country, White Man. Each year you get to keep less of the fruits of your labor; each year it gets more difficult to carry the burden the aliens have placed upon you; each year the cheap labor of aliens makes your future less secure; each year you retreat a few steps more into the world of slavery.” ~ George Lincoln Rockwell
- “Be your own hero, it’s cheaper than a movie ticket.” ~ Douglas Horton
- “Nothing’s free and only the cheaper things can be bought with money.” ~ S.M. Stirling
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“No man is cheaper than he who accepted that he’s cheap to continue his cheap action.” ~ Khem Veasna
- “The next time you face a challenge, remember that the cost of success is far cheaper than the price of failure.” ~ Tsem Tulku
- “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” ~ Stephen King
- “There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.” ~ Hector Hugh Munro
- “The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it’s cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.” ~ Bill Vaughan
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“The cheaper the stock, the better the outlook for future returns.” ~ Robert Haugen
- “The cheapest way to travel, and the way to travel the farthest in the shortest distance, is to go afoot, carrying a dipper, a spoon, and a fish line, some Indian meal, some salt, and some sugar…. Any one of these things I mean, not altogether. I have traveled thus some hundreds of miles without taking any meal in a house, sleeping on the ground when convenient, and found it cheaper, and in many respects more profitable, than staying at home. So that some have inquired why it would not be best to travel always. But I never thought of traveling simply as a means of getting a livelihood.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Shop shirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
- “God’s livery is a very plain one; but its wearers have good reason to be content. If it have not so much gold-lace about it as Satan’s, it keeps out foul weather better, and is besides a great deal cheaper.” ~ James Russell Lowell
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“In response to a suggestion that total free trade would end in cheaper foreign products flooding the market and causing unemployment.” ~ Milton Friedman
- “If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of his own comfort,–who would not so much as part with his ice- cream, to save them from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “As a preacher, I should be prompted to tell men, not so much how to get their wheat bread cheaper, as of the bread of life compared with which that is bran. Let a man only taste these loaves, and he becomes a skillful economist at once.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “High-quality software is not expensive. High-quality software is faster and cheaper to build and maintain than low-quality software, from initial development all the way through total cost of ownership.” ~ Capers Jones , Cheap quotes quality
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“[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I’m sure it would be cheaper.” ~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
- “I’m cheaper than Anthony Hopkins. The other actors they asked to play Gandalf wouldn’t go to New Zealand on that money for that length of time. I thought it would be a bit of an adventure. Tony Hopkins didn’t think it would be an adventure. Tony is part of Hollywood. I’m an eccentric English actor, and there’s a lot of us around.” ~ Ian McKellen
- “Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.” ~ Seth Godin
- “A railroad may have to be carried over a gorge or arroyo. Obviously, it does not need an Engineer to point out that this may be done by filling the chasm with earth, but only a Bridge Engineer is competent to determine whether it is cheaper to do this or to bridge it, and to design the bridge which will safely and most cheaply serve.” ~ Henry R. Towne
- “Put every light you have on a dimmer. Because after a certain age, we can play with the lighting and set it on how you look best on it. Its cheaper than plastic surgery.” ~ Bryan Batt
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“Wellness is cheaper than illness. It costs us time and money when children get sick.” ~ Thomas Carper
- “It is cheaper to pay mathematicians and computer scientists to design algorithms that will eliminate webspamming, rather than to pay lawyers to do lawsuits.” ~ Jennifer Tour Chayes
- “The further our civilization advances upon its present lines so much the cheaper sort of thing does “fame” become, especially of the literary sort. This species of “fame” a waggish acquaintance says can be manufactured to order, and sometimes is so manufactured.” ~ Herman Melville
- “Of course we will continue to work for cheaper electricity in the homes and on the farms of America; for better and cheaper transportation; for low interest rates; for sounder home financing; for better banking; for the regulation of security issues; for reciprocal trade among nations and for the wiping out of slums. And my friends, for all of these we have only begun to fight.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching – but that won’t pay the Bergdorf’s bill. I think I’ll move to somewhere life is cheaper.” ~ Erica Jong
- “Literally, people probably came up with a budget and said, ‘It’ll be cheaper if we cut down the prep,’ but it’s not cheaper, because then you’re shooting, you’re fumbling through the movie and you are prepping at three times the cost because you’re quadruple-time as you’re shooting and then prepping after you’re done shooting.” ~ Howard Berger
- “Most people who have been done a favor consider it an opportunity to show their incorruptibility rather than their gratitude. This is not only considerably cheaper morally, but it sometimes increases their pride so much that pretty soon they look down on their benefactor.” ~ Arthur Schnitzler
- “If Thought is capable of being classed with Electricity, or Will with chemical affinity, as a mode of motion, it seems necessary to fall at once under the second law of thermodynamics as one of the energies which most easily degrades itself, and, if not carefully guarded, returns bodily to the cheaper form called Heat. Of all possible theories, this is likely to prove the most fatal to Professors of History.” ~ Henry Adams
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“As long as gas is cheaper than bottled water, we can’t be in a position of dictating to the consumer what to buy.” ~ Bill Ford
- “High buildings have no genuine advantages, except in speculative gains for banks and landowners. They are not cheaper, they do not help create open space, they destroy the townscape, they destroy social life, they promote crime, they make life difficult for children, they are expensive to maintain, they wreck the open spaces near them, and they damage light and air and view.” ~ Christopher Alexander
- “Oil companies earned a permanent enemy in me when they messed with the electric car the first time around, and I think they continue to do a disservice in making it seem like fossil fuels are cheaper than they really are in terms of total cost.” ~ Chris Paine
- “It is a law of nature that everything run by the government will get more expensive and worse over time. Everything run by the private sector will get better and cheaper over time. The fact that [Obamacare] starts this badly does not bode well….We want healthcare run on the same system that gave us cell phones, flat screens, Jerry Garcia chia pets. Everything you submit to the free market…keeps getting better and better.” ~ Ann Coulter
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“Fifteen states across the country have gas prices that have dipped below $2. That means it’s now cheaper to buy a gallon of liquefied dinosaurs than one cup of coffee at Starbucks.” ~ Jimmy Fallon
- “Seems Google management figured out it is cheaper, happier and more productive to take care of their employees and create a positive work environment than to burn them to a crisp, make them afraid of the future, and send them off into the highways and byways of California in search of a Taco Bell for lunch.” ~ Joe McNally
- “NASA will send up a big sunshade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station.” ~ James Lovelock
- “This Obamacare program has Obama’s name on it. He lied to people for three years about this program. People trusted him. People believed what he told them. They believed that he was going to improve the health care system in this country, and it was going to get cheaper, more affordable, more plentiful.” ~ Rush Limbaugh
- “The farmers can be thankful. Didn’t the Farm Board decide in Washington last week that they could have cheaper interest? All the farmers have to do now is to find something new to put up as security.” ~ Will Rogers
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“If you leave school at 16 then, in all probability, there is a machine that can do what you can do better and cheaper. And Trump can’t do anything to change that.” ~ Nicholas Bloom
- “Now it is much faster and cheaper to bring thedocument to the user, rather than ask the user to come to the document or collection.” ~ Tom Peters
- “What the customer demands is last year’s model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.” ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
- “The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.” ~ Nathan Myhrvold
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“Killing terrorists is cheaper than capturing them.” ~ Harold Ford, Jr.
- “You talk about making this article cheaper by reducing its price in the market from 8 d. to 6 d. But suppose, in so doing, you have rendered your country weaker against a foreign foe; suppose you have demoralized thousands of your fellow-countrymen, and have sown discontent between one class of society and another, your article is tolerably dear, I take it, after all.” ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- “Obamacare is not about improved health care or cheaper insurance or better treatment or insuring the uninsured, and it never has been about that. It’s about statism. It’s about expanding the government. It’s about control over the population. It is about everything but health care.” ~ Rush Limbaugh
- “I’m frugal. It’s often cheaper to take the subway. And I’m an environmentalist, which my mother instilled in me, so I really believe in public transportation. And finally, I love the proximity to people in the subway.” ~ Chloe Sevigny
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“America is becoming a drug-infested nation. Drugs are becoming cheaper than candy bars. We are not going to let it happen any longer.” ~ Donald Trump
- “I think he was trying to produce more of a… sort of a cheaper image.” ~ Alice Cooper
- “Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mainly reflects two decades of title-inflation at the BBC, which has given ever more status to senior reporters, presumably because it is cheaper to do that than to offer higher pay.” ~ Evan Davis
- “Why has Scandinavia been producing such good thrillers? Maybe because their filmmakers can’t afford millions for CGI and must rely on cheaper elements like, you know, stories and characters.” ~ Roger Ebert
- “There’s a difference between being able to make long-distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It’s a difference in degree that’s so enormous it becomes a difference in kind.” ~ Thomas Friedman
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“The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it’s cheaper, and they don’t care what the location is.” ~ Steve Buscemi
- “People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.” ~ Jerome K. Jerome
- “Whatever the marketplace, if talented people are given resources, they’re going to keep driving us to having better, simpler, cheaper solutions to problems.” ~ Dean Kamen
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“Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they’re applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.” ~ Amory Lovins
- “It takes time and experience to absorb new technologies, so technologically backward producers need a period of protection from international competition during this period of learning. Such protection is costly because the country is giving up the chance to import better and cheaper products. However, it is a price that has to be paid if it wants to develop advanced industries.” ~ Ha-Joon Chang
- “I am not collecting copies of the cheaper editions of Omar Khayyám. I gave the last four that I received to the lift-boy, and I like to think of him reading them, with FitzGerald’s notes, to his aged mother. Lift-boys always have aged mothers; shows such nice feeling on their part, I think.” ~ Hector Hugh Munro
