Nothing's Free

Everything has a price, and the key to a lot of things with money is just

figuring out what that price is and being willing to pay it.

The problem is that the price of a lot of things is not obvious until you’ve

experienced them firsthand, when the bill is overdue.

General Electric was the largest company in the world in 2004, worth a

third of a trillion dollars. It had either been first or second each year for

the

previous decade, capitalism’s shining example of corporate aristocracy.

Then everything fell to pieces.