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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

— John Burroughs

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

— Douglas Adams

But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.

— Agatha Christie

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

— Ray Kroc

Service is the key to everything in life.

— Russell Simmons

Value is what people are willing to pay for it.

— John Naisbitt

The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.

— Michael Gerber

Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.

— Gavyn Davies

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

— John Ruskin

It's very, very hard to be generous and compassionate if you haven't got a dollar in you back pocket to pay for it, to actually pay for those services that people need.

— Denis Napthine

✗Opposing Perspectives

Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.

— James Hilton