Cost Quotes
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
Abraham Lincoln
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Cost is more important than quality but quality is the best way to reduce cost.
Genichi Taguchi -
No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.
William Golding -
There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.
Felix Dennis -
San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.
Gavin Newsom -
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
Saint Ignatius -
The rising cost of prescription drugs has sparked a prairie fire that is spreading across our nation.
Tim Pawlenty
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Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.
Foster Friess -
The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate.
Oliver E. Williamson -
No one knows the cost of a defective product – don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
W. Edwards Deming -
Every retailer, when they price their goods, looks at their total cost overall. When they have costs go up, they'll price their products accordingly.
Dan Butler -
That iPad you just bought. Do you care that it cost a few pence to manufacture? No. It's cost you several hundred pounds because somebody else was willing to pay that much for it. If they weren't... it wouldn't.
Ian Watson -
There's not a company that's not swept up in this wave of cost analysis,
Tony Butler Big Country
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The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.
W. C. Fields -
He needs to give us first of all the estimate of what that cost is going to be, why we are there, when we are going to get out and what are the situations or objectives that allow to get out of there.
Dennis Hastert -
The Nigerians have been very instrumental in preserving stability in Sierra Leone. They have done this at considerable cost in dollars and Nigerian lives. The US should encourage Nigeria to stay in Sierra Leone.
Ed Royce -
They pollute. It's not because morally they have a problem, but more because the mechanism now is rewarding those who cut corners to save cost.
Ma Jun -
Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore.
Yukihiro Matsumoto -
Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what's going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
Lamar Alexander -
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
William Francis Buckley -
The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.
Harrison Salisbury -
Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it's fired by a guy who doesn't make that in a year at a guy who doesn't make that in a lifetime is somehow so outrageous it almost makes the war seem winnable.
Sebastian Junger