Quotes About Cost

Money's awfully nice to have. In fact, all things considered, I think, 'Rene, that it's even worth the price.

solo unas lecciones de vuelo y unos cutters. En el momento en que escribo, ochenta lecciones de una hora de vuelo incluidos el coste del alquiler de la nave y la instrucción cuestan menos de nueve mil dólares. Un cutter con seis hojas cuesta 2,11 dólares. Por un desembolso insignificante, un puñado de hombres pudieron matar a 3.173 personas

figures must be adjusted downwards to take account of the cost of living, which has risen by a factor of nearly seven in my lifetime.

Why is it now a hundred times more expensive to bring a new medicine to market than it was sixty years ago Ã¢â'¬â€œ a phenomenon Juan Enriquez has called 'Moore's Law* in reverse'? Why would the Food and Drug Administration probably prohibit the sale of table salt if it were put forward as a new pharmacological product (it is after all toxic in large doses)?11

Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.

We got our land at the right time, but when we go for additional land for our schools or the museum, there will be extra cost.

It's expensive to produce musicals on television.

I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me.

It would be naive to say that you could make a movie on film for the same price you can digitally.

The saving love of God is his doing whatever must be done, at great cost to himself, and for the least deserving, so that he might enthrall them with what will make them supremely happy forever, namely, himself.

Microprocessors were instantly attractive to us because you could build something for a fraction of the cost of conventional electronics. That's essentially what we did with the Traf-O-Data computer - only it was too narrow and challenging an area to try to build a service business in.

The marginal cost of doing something 'just this once' always seems to be negligible, but the full cost will typically be much higher. Yet unconsciously, we will naturally employ the marginal-cost doctrine in our personal lives.

A facility to fabricate the most advanced logic chips costs twice as much as an aircraft carrier but will only be cutting-edge for a couple of years.

She could put off the inevitable but at a terrible cost.

From Alan Lightman's intricate 1993 novel Einstein's Dreams; set in Berne in 1905: With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great-grandparents, great-aunts...and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice. Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own...Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free.

Cheap booze is a false economy.

Never mind. Never mind. In this brief life, one cannot always be counting the cost.

everything in this world must be paid for, whether in gold, time, or blood. Nothing is without its price.

Empathy? Empathy? What empathy can I afford my enemies? Shall I dither about whether to defend myself because it will cause someone pain? If that had been the case, I would have died years ago! You must be willing to protect yourself and what you cherish, no matter what the cost.

There really was, as [Tom] West had often said, more to building a computer than designing and debugging a Central Processing Unit. Someone had to dream up its general outlines in the first place. Someone had to make sure the computer worked compatibly with the company's existing line of peripheral equipment. Someone had to set goals of cost and performance and see that they could be met. 278

Company engineers helped to design Westborough, and they made it functional and cheap. One contractor who did some work for Data General was quoted in Fortune as saying, "What they call tough auditing, we call thievery.

I had tried for more than two years to have an expedition sent against Mobile when its possession by us would have been of great advantage. It finally cost lives to take it when its possession was of no importance, and when, if left alone, it would within a few days have fallen into our hands without any bloodshed whatever.

I believe that over the centuries the experience of beauty has always been similar to the way we feel, as if seen from the back, when we are in the presence of something we are not a part of and do not wish to become a part of at any cost. In that distance lies the slender thread that separates the experience of beauty from other forms of passion.

Portugal was making money out of both sides in the war, and, as always, the rich were adding to their hoards while the poor discovered the meaning of inflation and that wages never kept up with the stealthy increase in the cost of food.