Quotes About Cost

The states couldn't possibly build two comparable systems. But if they really wanted Jim Crow, the NAACP began to make painfully clear, they would have to pay for it.5

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.

A vida para uns são cheias de curvas que dá impressão que êles seguem para o calvário conduzindo uma cruz que se chama"Custo de Vida

What you can't afford to lose, you can't afford to buy

heaped on the hapless American student to pay for a bloated academic establishment

Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gas? ... That's interesting. I hadn't heard that.

Both the law and business have long recognized the propriety of quantity discounts. But since 1914 the Clayton Act has banned price discrimination "when the effect may be to substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly." And since 1936 the Robinson-Patman Act has recognized such quantity discounts as legal only if they represent a saving in cost, and the law places the burden of proof on the seller.

The failure of Lateran V was the prelude to the Reformation, which shattered the unity of the Christian West and set in motion the dynamics that eventually led to the European wars of religion. Failures of reform carry a high cost.

If you don't have questions about a product's risks, then there's no reason to test. If you have at least one such question, then ask: Will these tests cost more to execute than their answers will be worth?

Often when managers say, "Testing takes too long," what they should be saying is, "Fixing the bugs in the product takes too long"—a different cost category. Make sure you're accounting for effort and time under the correct cost category.

Testing gathers information about a product; it does not fix things it finds that are wrong. Testing does not improve a product; the improving is done by people fixing the bugs that testing has uncovered. Often when managers say, "Testing takes too long," what they should be saying is, "Fixing the bugs in the product takes too long"—a different cost category.

I resent my barber when he charges the full cost after he cuts my hair, but he says he's charging me for finding it.

Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

What you get free costs too much.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Those modern analysts, they charge so much! In my day, for five marks Freud himself would treat you. For ten marks he would treat you and press your pants. For fifteen marks Freud would let you treat him - that included a choice of any two vegetables.

Nouvelle cuisine, roughly translated, means "I can't believe I spent ninety-six dollars and I'm still hungry."

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

No vision and you perish; No ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high.

The price of wisdom is above rubies.

Too caustic? To hell with cost; we'll make the picture anyhow. Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg. We have all passed a lot of water since then.

The game is not worth the candle.

Excellence costs a great deal.

Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that.