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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How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.
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That really improves security and reduces management cost.
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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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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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Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination.
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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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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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Man, them engagement rings, boy, they cost a lot. I was looking at 'em. Cost like a thousand bucks, two thousand bucks, y'know. Three thousand bucks. Something like that- four thousand bucks. Big number divisible by a thousand, anyways.
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Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.
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If you rent a U-Haul to move your company, it costs twice as much to go from San Francisco to Austin than the other way around, because you can't find enough trucks to leave the Golden State.
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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'm not Vegas. Places I play usually cost like $3 to get in, you know, and people are going: Gee, I've got $3, I think I'll throw it away.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Think things, not words." In words, many see a need for "social justice" to override "the dictates of the market." In reality, what is called "the market" consists of human beings making their own choices at their own cost. What is called "social justice" is government imposition of the notions of third parties, who pay no price for being wrong.
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The cost of quality is the expense of doing things wrong.
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The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.
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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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Foreign trade clearly holds down the cost of products we buy.
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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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Our biggest cost is not power, or servers, or people. It's lack of utilization. It dominates all other costs.
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When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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One of the biggest reasons for higher medical costs is that somebody else is paying those costs, whether an insurance company or the government. What is the politicians' answer? To have more costs paid by insurance companies and the government. ... Having someone else pay for medical care virtually guarantees that a lot more of it will be used. Nothing would lower costs more than having each patient pay those costs. And nothing is less likely to happen.
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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.
