Cost Quotes
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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.
Thomas Sowell
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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.
Tony Blair
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We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.
Geoffrey Wolff
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If you say, I'm living in America and I have freedom of speech but I choose not to use it because it's going to cost me, well, you're not living in freedom. You're not free.
Tim Robbins
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The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.
Elvis Costello
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I try not to be protected. Because I feel like you can become a little bit of a robot. That's not who I am. And I don't want to be monotone. It's important to be yourself, whatever the cost.
Serena Williams
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Be intentional about the spaces you create but not at the cost of compromising other elements.
Theo Epstein
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I really don't know one plane from the other. To me they are just marginal costs with wings.
Alfred Kahn
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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.
Steve Martin
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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.
Thomas Sowell
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Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: Compared to what? At what cost? What are the hard facts?.
Thomas Sowell
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The risk to cities from climate impacts carries great social and economic cost and, of course, the loss of human lives.
Patricia Espinosa
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I can't go on flying apart just for those who want the benefit of a few verbal kicks. My God, do you know what poems like that cost? They're not written vicariously: they come out of actual suffering, real madness.
Theodore Roethke
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I was late once and it cost me $50,000. I figure it was cheaper to wear two watches.
Chris Gardner
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Sin is the most expensive thing in the universe. Nothing else can cost so much.
Charles Grandison Finney
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Our biggest cost is not power, or servers, or people. It's lack of utilization. It dominates all other costs.
Jeff Bezos
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It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
Stephen King
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The product is the delivery of the largest number of people at the least cost.
George Gerbner
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Love... love... love, never counting the cost.
Catherine Doherty
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It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.
Dolly Parton
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You don't try to have the very lowest cost of an asset. You try to have the right asset. So rather than thinking about the lowest cost, the question is how do you get the best productivity.
Judith McKenna
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A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
Lois McMaster