Quotes About Cost

a company's engineers develop new equipment that can pump out more petroleum at a lower cost, the effective size of the reservoir increases. Not the actual size—its physical dimensions—but the effective size, the amount of oil and gas that can be extracted in the foreseeable future.

I can get you a cheaper ticket if you let me amputate your legs: I can even take your thighs as a deposit," said the travel agent.

The knife-shaped thing sticking out of his throat is drinking greedily; one glance tells Johnny that the cop's beyond help. There's always a cost for using such occult weapons, and Johnny will pay it later, of that he is sure; but for now he's simply relieved to still be alive.

The finest studies are like the finest of anything else: They cost big bucks.

We will just resent whatever cost and inconvenience the regulations impose, totally unaware that those precautions may have prevented a debt crisis or a real estate crash.

Commodity information (everybody gets the same version) wants to be free. Customized information (you get something unique and meaningful to you) wants to be expensive.

Internet simplemente permite llegar a más personas con un coste más bajo, y aumentar de manera eficaz la liquidez del mercado en la larga cola.

In the atoms economy, which is to say most of the stuff around us, things tend to get more expensive over time. But in the bits economy, which is the online world, things get cheaper. The atoms economy is inflationary, while the bits economy is deflationary.

Cross-subsidies are the essence of the phrase "there's no such thing as a free lunch." That means that one way or another the food must be paid for, if not by you directly then by someone else in whose interest it is to give you free food.

U.S. military spending, which consumes half of all discretionary spending, has had a profound social and political cost. Bridges and levees collapse. Schools decay. Domestic manufacturing declines. Trillions in debt threaten the viability of the currency and the economy. The poor, the mentally ill, the sick, and the unemployed are abandoned. Human suffering is the price for victory, which is never finally defined or attainable.

The myth of war creates a new, artificial reality. Moral precepts—ones we have spent a lifetime honoring—are jettisoned. We accept, if not condone, the maiming and killing of others as the regrettable cost of war. We operate under a new moral code.

When I first started talking about running for office, a lot of people said to me, 'Don't let the consultants change you,' and I'd always assured them that I wouldn't allow it to happen. But like it or not, I had to change. Not because of a consultant, but because I started to understand the cost of a stupid mistake.

Chemicals are really simple. You mix a couple things together and sell it for more than the materials cost.

Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?

We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.

Money's the cheapest thing. Liberty and freedom is the most expensive.

I can't speak for every woman, but my birth control is covered by my insurance, and if it weren't covered, it would cost $9 a month. I don't know a lot of women who can't afford $9 a month.

You would rather pay $50 a month for a cable modem than a free voiceband modem because of the attractiveness of that broadband connection.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

Sólo después, cuando el socialismo pasó de ser una teoría a ser un sistema económico real en varios países, se hizo dolorosamente evidente que las personas en los países socialistas tenían mayores problemas para costearse aquellas cosas que, en los países capitalistas, la mayoría de la gente podían comprar con facilidad.

Mientras que el capitalismo tiene un coste visible —la ganancia— que no existe bajo el socialismo, el socialismo tiene un coste invisible —la ineficiencia— que es erradicado en el capitalismo a través de las pérdidas y la quiebra

While capitalism has a visible cost - profit - that does not exist under socialism, socialism has an invisible cost - inefficiency - that is eradicated under capitalism through losses and bankruptcy.

What in me demanded that goodness in her? And what was the cost, the cost to her of such goodness?