Cost Quotes

• 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.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Ocean
  • Week
  • Cost

• The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Aim
  • Labour
  • Utility

• Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Marketing
  • Cost
  • Oil

• The cost of testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2, at more than $3,000 in the United States, remains an obstacle for many women.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Women
  • Obstacles
  • States

• The theory which follows is entirely based on a calculus of pleasure and pain; and the object of economics is to maximize happiness by purchasing pleasure, as it were, at the lowest cost of pain.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Pain
  • Pleasure
  • Economics

• 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.

  

  Cleve Jones
  • Reality
  • Internet
  • Acceptance

• I understand shipping - you have to expect to pay for the stamps or for the freight company - but what's this handling they always have? How much does handling cost, anyway? I don't want a lot of people handling something I'm going to buy before I get it. How much would it cost if you didn't handle it before you sent it to me?

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Company
  • Doe

• My stepmother sold my birth certificate and someone asked why I didn't buy it back. I don't know, really. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. It was mine. It cost me nothing and suddenly I had to buy it back.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Why
  • Birth
  • Certificates

• The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Fashion
  • Encounters

• 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.

  

  Brad Stewart Shinedown
  • Good
  • Cost
  • Belittling

• In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Community
  • Security
  • Cost

• If we pursue organic farming as our healthy food style, we can bring down cost of treatment to a great extent.

  

  Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi
  • Treatment
  • Farming
  • Organic

• But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • True
  • Health

• Other people in the airline are furious. That short strike has cost them a week's bonus.

  

  Chris Avery
  • Strike
  • Bonus
  • Airline

• Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced.

  

  Taiichi Ohno
  • Business
  • Cost
  • Lean Manufacturing

• My lean cost more than your rent, Your mama still live in a tent.

  

  Gazzy Garcia
  • Cost
  • Rent
  • Lean

• We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Labor
  • Cost
  • Attach

• Being trans comes at a high cost, but being black and trans can cost you your life.

  

  Angelica Ross
  • Life
  • Cost
  • Trans

• 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.

  

  William Vickrey
  • Rate
  • Inflation
  • Steady

• One of the biggest problems that we have right now is that in some areas of the State we cannot get additional jobs created because they say the housing costs are too high.

  

  George Deukmejian
  • Problem
  • Jobs
  • Housing

• I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmae.

  

  Aulus Gellius
  • Cost
  • Repentance
  • Drachmae

• We made some mistakes. We had some managers we didn't like and had to get rid of, and that cost some money. Stuff like that. But overall, we did really well.

  

  Robby Krieger The Doors
  • Money
  • Mistakes
  • Managers

• I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Moments

• The cost of housing in L.A. has increased dramatically because more people want to live here. They come to Los Angeles every day, not just from around the United States but from around the world.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • United States
  • Los Angeles
  • Housing

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