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Quotes About Cost

Isn't it ironic that pay, perks, and benefits all cost your company at the bottom line, but authentic recognition, especially when it's most unexpected, costs very little and gives the most impressive return on investment?
~ Chip Conley
See, locking people up who present no real danger to society isn't just unfair to those people and those who love them. It is, but it's also unfair to the people who pay to keep them there: the taxpayers. Let me be clear: Locking someone up is not free.
~ Kat Timpf
I believe that a university education should be free as it is unfair on people who cannot afford to pay for it.
~ Laila Rouass
I think we ought to strip our laws and regulations of everything that rewards or recommends or requires preferential treatment by race. I think that is one of the single most unfortunate changes of the 1960s and it is one that we can change at no cost.
~ Charles Murray
We've gotten to a point where it costs so much money to make a movie that directors and filmmakers feel they have to make sure that everybody gets it. And that's an unfortunate development, I think, in a lot of narratives floating around in the film industry.
~ Jeff Nichols
When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortunately, the audiences of foreign language films have not been cultivated. There's a market, but the market has been reduced, unfortunately, and you know that when you're making a foreign language film, you're making a choice.
~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Wisdom comes at a price. But the price you have to pay shouldn't guide your decision to invest – the expected return should.
~ Mensah Oteh
Either way, it will cost you. You will for pay for your education or pay for your ignorance.
~ Kathy McClary
Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women.
~ Lord Kelvin
It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.
~ Hedy Lamarr
Archery is not a sport for everyone. The equipment costs a lot, and it is not easy for everyone to find a place to play. It is perhaps similar to golf, but of course there are more golf courses than archery fields.
~ Im Dong-Hyun
Spotify was one of the first services that actually focuses on the consumer because they don't have to spend hundreds of dollars a year on music.
~ Troy Carter
The premise of insurance is to spread the risk. It's the premise of homeowner's insurance, of car insurance, and of health insurance. It's one reason why it's important to have insurance when you're healthy, so that when you get sick, you won't go sign up just when you get sick, because that increases the cost for everyone.
~ Jeanne Shaheen
If you build a 70,000-seat stadium it will cost much more than double to build than a 35,000-seater. The higher the seat the more expensive it is to construct.
~ John W. Henry
One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.
~ Chris Van Hollen
Staging Formula One is incredibly expensive.
~ Mario Andretti
America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.
~ E. O. Wilson
Inevitably, we will spend a multiple of the amount we used to drop on a new router once the old one petered out. The New Wifi is the $5 latte to the standard cup of coffee.
~ Steven Levy
I think the Postal Service has missed an opportunity to position itself to get a bigger share of the package market and has been facing the declining mail market, driving up cost and not being able to achieve the service standards that it's put in place.
~ Louis DeJoy
In California, they're not making any more land. And with the high cost of land, from a business standpoint, being able to move your goods quickly and cheaply makes Compton an attractive place to be.
~ Aja Brown
Honestly, direct monetary comparisons aren't helpful. If you're going to look at remuneration, you have to be realistic about what revenue we're bringing in for the organisation and the sport. And as it currently stands, women's cricket is still a cost to the business.
~ Ellyse Perry
Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.
~ Manolo Blahnik
I don't think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware of it.
~ Robert Creeley
It will cost you everything to follow the Lord. And it will cost you even more to be His man for this hour.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer