Quotes About Cost

Without these self-service Operations platforms, the cloud is just Expensive Hosting 2.0.

In addition to the human suffering that comes with the current way of working, the opportunity cost of the value that we could be creating is staggering—the authors believe that we are missing out on approximately $2.6 trillion of value creation per year,

There was much to put out of his mind. Why was it difficult to forget Chekov's astonished delight which greeted him at the command airlock when he boarded. And on the bridge - Kirk! The mere name made Spock groan inwardly as he remembered what it had cost him to turn away from that welcome. T'hy'la!

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.

Greet prees at market maketh deere ware,And to greet cheep is holde at litel prys.

The point is that the overwhelming energy cost associated with food is not in the food itself (the 2,000 food calories a day per person) but in its production, transportation, distribution, and marketing through the supply chain from farms to stores to your house and ultimately to your mouth.

We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.

Where faith costs nothing, faith loses respect, even to those who possess it.

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but would not cost half as much during the winter months.

Almost every cost estimate made by a physicist is wildly wrong, and the better the physicist the worse it is (Herb York).

Great powers can tend to be casual because the situation is not existential. This increases the cost of doing what is necessary.

If the cost of naming the enemy is diplomatically or politically unacceptable, then the war is not likely to go well.

Aim at performance, and low cost will follow. Aim at low cost, and you will not achieve sufficient performance to have an enduring business. After a sufficient system is devised, demand will foster economies of scale and learning curves that bring the price down over time.

This particular hyena was short and had blue hair that stuck out straight up from her head. She saw me looking. "Like my do? I'll tell you who did it. Of course, it won't look as good on you as it does on me." She winked. "I'm sure. So how much does it cost to get a gas burner installed on your head?

To design a desk which may cost £1,000 is easy for a furniture designer, but to design a functional and good desk which shall cost only £50 can only be done by the very best

Quite apart from the fact that we usually pay so dearly for our follies, we should be generous about them, to ourselves and others. Yes, we always pay for them, and sometimes the smallest indiscretions cost as much as the largest.

This social worker lassie turns round n gies us a stroppy look. Ah jist smiles bit she looked away aw fuckin nippy likes. Disnae cost nowt tae be social. A social worker thit cannae be fuckin social; that's nae good tae nae cunt, thon. Like a lifeguard thit cannae fuckin swim. Shouldnae be daein that kinday joab.

Se creó un aparente milagro económico a un gran costo social

The problem with a cost reduction strategy is that there is a finite limit.You can only get to zero.

When goods are digital, they can be replicated with perfect quality at nearly zero cost, and they can be delivered almost instantaneously. Welcome to the economics of abundance.

It's happened to far too many Americans. You open up your phone bill and wonder why there's an extra zero, or several, on the amount that you owe.

Everyone has all the power of a bank branch in the palm of their hand. And so in that world of software at scale, theoretically the incremental unit cost of something at scale approaches zero.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

The most costly disease is not cancer or coronaries. The most costly disease is boredom - costly for both individual and society.