Future Spot Price

Famous quotes containing the words future, spot and/or price:

“Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“I warn you, avoid this evil, and let his own care delay each, and let him not change the spot of his accustomed love.”
—Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)

“How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)