Cost Quotes
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Weighing benefits against costs is the way most people make decisions - and the way most businesses make decisions, if they want to stay in business. Only in government is any benefit, however small, considered to be worth any cost, however large.
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To me, the box-office is basically the cost of film. If your film costs so much and your box-office is so much and a bit more, you are okay.
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Gradual and moderate warming brings benefits as well as incurring costs. These benefits and costs will not, of course, be felt uniformly throughout the world; the colder regions of the world will be more affected by the benefits, and the hotter regions by the costs.
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One of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling processes involve a trade-off of costs and benefits. In general, the more finely the sorting is done, the greater the benefits - and the costs... Sorting and labeling, whether of people or of things, is a sorting and labeling of probabilities rather than of certainties.
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The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.
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Lord, bring honor to thy Son at my expense, whatever the cost, and send me the bill. It is my reasonable service - He paid mine.
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How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.
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America's health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet, our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care.
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Good access to a doctor and a drugstore when you first have a problem can avoid a lot of cost and heartache later.
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A smile costs about $240.
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Love... love... love, never counting the cost.
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Trust is a powerful accelerator to performance and when trust goes up, speed also goes up while cost comes down - producing what we call a trust dividend.
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When workers make more money, they respond by being more productive in their jobs and are less likely to leave, reducing turnover costs. This puts money in business' pockets, and workers also then have more money to spend in the local economy.
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Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.
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I plan on going so deep into the desert, that any failure of my equipment could cost me my life.
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I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.
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I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour, but sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction.
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The cost in human lives of every armed conflict is staggering, but the economic cost of wars can continue for generations.
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It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
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You can't have costs ahead of your unit revenues. What I wake up at night worrying about is that our proposals are not aggressive enough.
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Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.
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Foreign trade clearly holds down the cost of products we buy.
