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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I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.
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Nobody ever stops drinking until the cost of drinking becomes higher than the cost of not drinking.
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The cost of quality is the expense of doing things wrong.
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Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year.
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Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.
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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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Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.
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Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.
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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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When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.
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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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Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.
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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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Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.
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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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That which is priceless has no cost.
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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 screwed up there, and it probably cost us the game.
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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.
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Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.
