Overpay Quotes & Sayings

There's just not a lot of inventory, and to find a shortstop or a catcher, or a centerfielder, that you think that could stay at those positions ... they're very hard to acquire. Sometimes you have to overpay for them, because of that lack of inventory. — Kevin Towers

To the extent that people overpay as a result of the Libor manipulation, they should be able to get their money back. Individuals who have mortgages, pension funds who had pensioner investments - whoever was ripped off is entitled to get their money back. — Peter Welch

Moneyball. As the character played
by Jonah Hill argues convincingly to Brad Pitt's character,
baseball teams often overpay for young, untested talent or big
name players because they don't know how else to set an accurate price. — Grewal

When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance. He becomes a source of blessings rather than wages. Criticism is sacrilege, doubt is heresy. — Ben Hecht

Always overpay your taxes.That way you'll get a refund. — Meyer Lansky

Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts. — Blaise Pascal

I get my inspiration from everyone when I need it and how I need it. — Picabo Street

I always overpay or overtip when I'm upset. — Sue Kaufman

I could have possibly beaten Senator McCain in the primary. Then I could have been the candidate who lost to Barack Obama. — Mitt Romney

The number of those who have nothing to recommend them and of those in whom nothing but good can be found is probably equal — Murasaki Shikibu

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things. — Bill Gates

It's almost impossible to overpay the truly extraordinary CEO ... but the species is rare. — Warren Buffett

I've never been a partisan, I've never been a Republican, I've never been a Democrat, ever, which is why I was very frustrated being called a gay Republican when I never attached myself to that. — Andrew Sullivan

Walking along the path that she chose, without being affected by others ... in this sense, white is her color ... in another sense, it also makes me want to put more colors on her — Usui Takumi

While I hear from readers all the time that they love learning new things, I never want to do an "info-dump." Boring! I try to include enticing details and skip all the rest. — Jane Cleland

Doing ventures is great - I'm talking economics now - if you've got a rising market. It's wonderful. If I hadn't got HKT, I would have been just as happy. Because there's a price for everything. And to overpay for something is awful. — Richard Li

Overpay good baby-sitters. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, as long as money will last to buy it. — Henry Kravis

Gifts are very useful to con men. Gifts create a feeling of debt, an itchy anxiety that the recipient is eager to be rid of by repaying. So eager, in fact, that people will often overpay just to be relieved of it. A single spontaneously given cup of coffee can make a person feel obligated to sit through a lecture on a religion they don't care about. The gift of a tiny, wilted flower can make the recipient give to a charity they dislike. Gifts place such a heavy burden that even throwing away the gift doesn't remove the debt. Even if you hate coffee, even if you didn't want that flower, once you take it, you want to give something back. Most of all, you want to dismiss obligation. — Holly Black