Quotes About Cost

It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.

It simply is not cost affective to cover stories from independent sources.

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.

Loving yourself costs nothing, but not loving yourself could cost you everything.

Anything acquired without effort, and without cost is generally unappreciated, often discredited; perhaps this is why we get so little from our marvellous opportunity in public schools.

Because what matters in life isn't how frequently one is "right" about outcomes, but how much one makes when one is right. Being wrong, when it is not costly, doesn't count—in a way that's similar to trial-and-error mechanisms of research.

If it costs you your peace, it's too expensive.

If both the positive and the negative consequences of an action fell on its author, our learning would be fast. But often an action's positive consequences benefit only its author, since they are visible, while the negative consequences, being invisible, apply to others, with a net cost to society.

Simply consider that close to 80 or 85 percent of the cost of a tomato can be attributed to transportation, storage, and waste

Simply consider that close to 80 or 85 percent of the cost of a tomato can be attributed to transportation, storage, and waste (unsold inventories), rather than the cost at the farmer level.

Greenspan's actions were harmful, but even if he knew that, it would have taken a bit of heroic courage to justify inaction in a democracy where the incentive is to always promise a better outcome than the other guy, regardless of the actual, delayed cost.

types of errors is the most rational thing to do, when the errors are of little cost, as they lead to discoveries. For instance, most medical "discoveries" are accidental to something else. An error-free world would have no penicillin, no chemotherapy…almost no drugs, and most probably no humans.

did not cost him anything—except the emotional drain.

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

they needed additional safety features and scrambled to add them, at any cost.

but would treat cost of search as "loss.

because they cost more to run than the benefits they bring.

Freedom entails risks—real skin in the game. Freedom is never free.

Hamburgers, to many of us, are vastly tastier than filet mignon because of the higher fat content, but people have been convinced that the latter is better because it is more expensive to produce.

Rumors are like rain through an old roof. The effort of finding the source is greater than the cost of a new roof.

I was only kidding about the hundred, she says. oh, I say, what will it cost me? she lights her cigarette with my lighter and looks at me through the flame: her eyes tell me. look, I say, I don't think I can ever pay that price again.

For I know that all things have their price,especially when they are advertised as being free

born into this into hospitals which are so expensive that it's cheaper to die