Quotes About Cost

I am tired of the sickening sight of the battlefield with its mangled corpses & poor suffering wounded. Victory has no charms for men when purchased at such cost.

The unchangeable price of everything more precious and valuable is blood.

Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost.

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

That religion which costs a man nothing is usually worth nothing.

Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory—nothing so expensive as glory.

When Americans fill a prescription, the price is routinely twice as much—sometimes ten times as much—as a Briton or a German would pay for precisely the same pills made in the same factory.

Only the Gemba Can Do Cost Reduction

A quarter for the berry, three quarters for the delivery

You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and that you will have to pay it.

Dublin housing prices are a lot like New York ones, except that in New York, you get New York for your money.

The reason we feel alienated is because the society is infantile, trivial, and stupid. So the cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation.

Most of us have learned from experience that cheap goods and services are usually not as good as more expensive goods and services. Paying more will often buy a better house, a better car, better clothing, better airline seats, and better service. It is, therefore, understandable that many investors believe that paying more for expensive funds, expensive financial advice, and expensive investments will result in better results. The opposite is nearly always true.

Barra, a research firm, did a study of market impact cost and found that a stock fund with $500 million in assets and a turnover rate of 80 to 100 percent could lose 3 to 5 percent a year to market impact costs.

High inflation rates may come along and diminish purchasing power.

Whenever possible, we will use index funds with their low cost and low turnover.

it's easier for me to appreciate the benefits of literacy and harder to recognize everything it has cost us.

North Korea bought its first dozen MiG-29s from Belarus in 1995, as the worst part of the Great Famine began, at a cost of nearly half a billion dollars. That would have been enough to feed every hungry North Korean man, woman, and child for two years. Estimates of Great Famine deaths ranged between two to three and a half million. As a result, these dozen MiG-29s had probably killed more people than any others in history, without firing a shot.

Nothing is free. Everything has to be paid for. For every profit in one thing, payment in some other thing. For every life, a death. Even your music, of which we have heard so much, that had to be paid for. Your wife was the payment for your music. Hell is now satisfied.

Can you provide the necessary care? (I could.) Will such care so interfere with your own life as to create serious problems with you or your family? (It wouldn't.) Will the cost involved become unbearably expensive? (No.)

However much we talk about our longing for change in ourselves and the world, the actual prospect of that change, and the cost of it in terms of engaging in battle with the powers of conformity, produces some ambivalence at best. Ambivalence generates resistance. It is hard to get carried away when we're hanging on tightly to the familiar.

After all these years of Independence, after celebrating this special occasion for all these years, why there's no drinking water that's free of cost? Why we have to buy packaged mineral water?

Assuming a specific resource is high cost is often a path to disruption when someone makes a different assumption.