The Price You Pay for College Quotes

“the average first-time, full-time, first-year student got a discount of 52.6 percent1 off the list price of tuition during the 2019–20 school year.”
― Ron Lieber, The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make

“When questions like these start to compound in my brain, I like to look at a drawing that my friend Carl Richards made many years ago now. It’s just two circles, one labeled “Things We Can Control” and the other “Things That Matter.” The circles overlap ever so slightly. Carl colored in the conjoined space and then drew an arrow pointing to it with a label that read “What You Should Focus On.”
― Ron Lieber, The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make

“Subsidies, Hierarchy”
― Ron Lieber, The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make

“Only 6 percent4 of people who felt low levels of purpose in their work reported high levels of overall well-being, while 59 percent of people with high levels of purpose at work experienced high overall well-being.”
― Ron Lieber, The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make