Cost Quotes

• 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.

  

  Charles A. Murray
  • Poor
  • Policy
  • Century

• I screwed up there, and it probably cost us the game.

  

  Bobby Abreu
  • Game
  • Cost
  • Screwed

• The return on investment in global health is tremendous, and the biggest bang for the buck comes from vaccines. Vaccines are among the most successful and cost-effective health investments in history.

  

  Seth Berkley
  • Successful
  • Investment
  • Return

• Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.

  

  Stewart Brand
  • Free
  • Information
  • Cost

• 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.

  

  Sunny Deol
  • Film
  • Cost
  • Box Office

• 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.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Process
  • Social
  • Trade

• A smile costs about $240.

  

  Roma Downey
  • Smile
  • Cost

• Love... love... love, never counting the cost.

  

  Catherine Doherty
  • Cost
  • Counting

• How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.

  

  Ashly Lorenzana
  • Value
  • Cost
  • Determined

• 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.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Reality
  • Party
  • Government

• I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour, but sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Sometimes
  • Conviction
  • Honour

• Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Blood
  • Propaganda
  • Agony

• 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.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Powerful
  • Speed
  • Performances

• 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.

  

  Carl Baugh
  • Paid
  • Mines
  • Expenses

• Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.

  

  Zoe Akins
  • Forget
  • Cost

• I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.

  

  Diogenes
  • Best
  • Drunk
  • Cost

• The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Certain
  • Levels
  • Sanity

• 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.

  

  David Rolf
  • Money
  • Jobs
  • Economy

• It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

  

  Stephen King
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Cost

• 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.

  

  Charles A. Murray
  • Reason
  • Humans
  • Liberty

• 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.

  

  Carol Browner
  • Class
  • Gas
  • Drivers

• 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.

  

  Paul Gillmor
  • Health care
  • Cost
  • Medications

• Good access to a doctor and a drugstore when you first have a problem can avoid a lot of cost and heartache later.

  

  Phil Bredesen
  • Access
  • Avoid
  • Drugstore

• 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.

  

  Ed Bastian
  • Cost
  • Proposal
  • Revenues

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