A collection of quotes about nothing in life or business being “free” from past, present, and unknown authors.
“There is no such thing as a free lunch.” – Milton Friedman
“Everything has its price.” – Publilius Syrus
“Freedom is not free.” – Unknown
“Nothing worth having comes free.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.” – Robert A. Heinlein
“Remember, there’s no free lunch.” – Dave Ramsey
“Nothing in life is free.” – Jean Chatzky
“You can’t get something for nothing.” – Rush
“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it.” – John F. Kennedy
“Nothing comes from doing nothing.” – William Shakespeare
“The only Free Cheese is in the Mouse Trap.” – Russian Proverb
“Everything that has value has its price.” – Paulo Coelho
“Freedom is never free.” – Unknown
“There is a cost for everything that is received.” – Jeremy Clarkson
“There are no free gifts in life, you must earn everything you get.” – Anonymous
“The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.” – Leon Blum
“Nothing endures but change.” – Heraclitus
“You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?” – Steven Wright
“For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” – Ronald Reagan
“Success is not free. The price is hard work and dedication.” – Vince Lombardi
“Every man must give account of his stewardship.” – Bible
“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent.” – Carl Sandburg
“Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom.” – Ho Chi Minh
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.” – Walter Winchell
“There is no free gift. There is always a price to be paid.” – Maya Angelou
“Every action has a consequence.” – Benjamin Franklin
“There are no gains without pains.” – Benjamin Franklin
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
“For every promise, there is a price to pay.” – Jim Rohn
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” – Derek Bok
“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” – Thomas Edison
“Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.” – Thomas Sowell
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison
“The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.” – Meister Eckhart
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
“There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man’s lawful prey.” – John Ruskin
“When one door closes another door opens, but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell