Quotes About Cost

A fair price for oil is whatever you can get plus ten to twenty per cent.

What costs nothing is worth nothing.

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.

You build on cost and you borrow on value.

The price spoils the pleasure.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.

Pleasure is not pleasant unless it cost dear.

Since Jesus is the truth, if you follow him, you must be truthful, no matter what the personal cost.

I feel I'm fortunate compared with a lot of parents in being able to afford a nanny but, you know, it's expensive. When we've looked into trying to find a full daycare place in London it's just been impossible. You just cannot get one.

It makes no difference how low tuition is if the student has no source of funds to pay that tuition.

However, this President sees no problem eliminating funding for Perkins Loans in his budget, even though the cost of tuition is rising and will continue to rise as the administration's policies force inflation.

We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index.

Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.

I want all tuition to stop growing.

Turnover can be one of the most expensive problems at a company.

At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum.

At IMVU, the cost of customer acquisition through our five-dollar-a-day AdWords campaign was less than twenty-five cents. Our revenue from those same customers was more than a dollar.

Parisians overwhelmingly buy small cars. And it's not because people are petite, but because fuel is drop-dead expensive. Gasoline costs more than twice as much in Paris as in New York.

The way health care is funded in the U.S. is not sustainable. People are being kept alive who are probably better off dead. The cost of health care is too high, and you don't get much for it - it's twice as high in the U.S. as elsewhere, and it's because of the middlemen.

Death Row inmates are almost twice as expensive to house each year as other inmates. Death penalty trials are much costlier than trials where execution is not a potential punishment and consume more time from judges, public defenders, and other legal personnel.

Think about how much it costs to learn more. Sometimes you want to build confidence by knocking off the easy things.

I think that, just like the art scene and the music scene is exploding in LA - I mean, let's face it: if you want to be an artist you cannot live in New York anymore because it is too expensive…

It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not.