Cost Quotes
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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.
Charles A. Murray -
We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.
Geoffrey Wolff
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Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.
Tony Gilroy -
The costliest women are the ones who cost nothing.
Alfred de Musset -
Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play.
Jerry Coleman -
Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.
Stewart Brand -
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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
Demosthenes -
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 -
The product is the delivery of the largest number of people at the least cost.
George Gerbner -
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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Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.
Susan George -
Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.
Zoe Akins -
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 -
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 -
That which is priceless has no cost.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock -
Foreign trade clearly holds down the cost of products we buy.
Tim Bishop
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A smile costs about $240.
Roma Downey -
I screwed up there, and it probably cost us the game.
Bobby Abreu -
The risk to cities from climate impacts carries great social and economic cost and, of course, the loss of human lives.
Patricia Espinosa -
Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.
Evan Esar