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Motivation Quote by Rob Walton

"I mean, price is price. It's just where you want to spend your money"

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"Price is price" is the kind of blunt, locker-room logic that sounds obvious until you notice what it smuggles in: a whole worldview where costs are fixed facts of nature and values are optional accessories. Rob Walton’s line doesn’t argue that something is worth it; it shrugs that worth is whatever you decide to tolerate. That rhetorical move is the secret engine here. By flattening price into an unchangeable constant, he shifts the conversation away from scrutiny (Is it overpriced? Is the system fair?) and toward personal preference (Do you want it enough?).

The second sentence turns the screw: "It’s just where you want to spend your money". The word "just" is doing heavy work, sanding down complexity into a lifestyle choice. In sports culture, that tracks: athletes live in a world of perpetual trade-offs, where you’re always allocating limited resources - money, time, your body - toward marginal gains. The quote borrows that pragmatic mentality and applies it to consumer life.

There’s also an aspirational subtext. Coming from an athlete, it lands as a permission slip: stop overthinking, commit to your priorities, buy the thing that aligns with your goals. At the same time, it quietly absolves institutions and markets. If price is simply price, then the only moral actor left is the buyer, not the seller, not the league, not the economy. It’s a small sentence that mirrors a bigger cultural reflex: turning structural questions into personal budgeting decisions.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Walton, Rob. (2026, January 18). I mean, price is price. It's just where you want to spend your money. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-mean-price-is-price-its-just-where-you-want-to-10820/

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Walton, Rob. "I mean, price is price. It's just where you want to spend your money." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-mean-price-is-price-its-just-where-you-want-to-10820/.

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"I mean, price is price. It's just where you want to spend your money." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-mean-price-is-price-its-just-where-you-want-to-10820/. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.

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Rob Walton (born March 29, 1949) is a Athlete from Canada.

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