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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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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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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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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It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.
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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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How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.
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Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.
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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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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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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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A smile costs about $240.
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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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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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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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Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.
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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 reason welfare is bad is not because it costs too much, nor because it "undermines the work ethic," but because it is intrinsically at odds with the way human beings come to live satisfying lives.
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I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.
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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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I plan on going so deep into the desert, that any failure of my equipment could cost me my life.
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Choosing the most fuel-efficient vehicles within a class can save drivers at least $1,500 in fuel costs and avoid more than 15 tons of greenhouse gas pollution over the life of the vehicle, as well as help reduce dependence on foreign oil.
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Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.
