#premium

We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#community #daily #effect #encourage #held

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage. ↗

— Walter Lord

#intellectual #just #me #once #personal

Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adopt building codes to mitigate flood dangers, and the Federal Government agreed to provide insurance coverage to policyholders after a disaster. ↗

— Bob Ney

#adopt #after #agreed #building #business

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#forever #joy #little #poetry #pound

Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high. ↗

— Mariano Rajoy

#difficult #finance #finding #high #itself

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany. ↗

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

#buy #castle #castles #enough #forty

A premium in the oil price of somewhere between 10 to 15 dollars a barrel reflects this heightened anxiety. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#barrel #between #dollars #heightened #oil

Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#debilitating #delivery #either #excessive #health

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#brand #business #delivering #get #going

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are. ↗

— Gail Godwin

#experience #few #few people #people #premium