Cost Quotes
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It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.
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I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.
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One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.
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Our whole wedding cost 180 bucks. Afterward, we re-heated lasagna for everyone and set off fireworks.
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This meets the density, quality, cost structure and scalability needs of the diverse embedded market.
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China is bearing the environmental cost for much of the world because China is the factory of the world.
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I have personally seen what a devastating medical condition can cost.
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My dad used to take me when I was little. I always try to catch the show now, because it doesn't cost too much more than a movie ticket, and live events are always more attention-grabbing.
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The tragedy unfolding in Zimbabwe is driven by one man's ruthless campaign to hang on to power whatever the cost to others in the process.
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Things are expensive, very expensive in Israel for many reasons. One of the reasons is our ports. It's a monopoly. They run very poorly. And we have ships that are stuck in the ocean for three or four days or a week, and all that cost is transferred to the products and the consumer.
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Although our cost reduction efforts will position Kodak for an improved 1998, the growing strength of the U.S. dollar, continuing competitive pressures and the phased implementation of the cost reduction program will make it likely that results during the first quarter of 1998 will be below those of 1997
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To the economically illiterate, if some company makes a million dollars in profit, this means that their products cost a million dollars more than they would have without profits. It never occurs to such people that these products might cost several million dollars more without the incentives to be efficient created by the prospect of profits.
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Books on their own aren't insanely expensive compared to other things; three large cappuccinos cost more than a paperback, and two and a half gallons of gas cost more than a paperback.
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No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man; she knows the history of human flesh; she knows its cost; he does not.
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To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.
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For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at a cost of heavy toil for much of human history. The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it for him. The more things are provided as rights, the less the recipients have to work and the more others have to carry their load.
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Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.
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Demonstrate to your customer the difference between price and cost. The price is what it takes to purchase the item. The cost is the amount the customer eventually pays. They are not the same.
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I have long feared that my sins would return to visit me. And the cost is more than I can bear.
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The reality is that the "gayborhoods" are going away. It's because of many factors, including the internet and increased acceptance, but mostly it's the cost of housing.
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The advantage comes out of the capability of Indian engineers and the competitiveness of their capabilities and the cost at which they can create those capabilities.
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So I told him I'd sell him a new wheel at cost, and I ordered it, but later he came in and said he'd gone elsewhere and came in only to tell me that. He was pretty belittling, and he had to tell me I was no good. Where it ended up, I asked him not to come back.
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The cost of anything is the foregone alternative.
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If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain.
