Quotes About Cost

The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone of the printer of Edinburgh. It said simply: He kept down the cost and set the type right.

The idea of paying Value Added Tax on a bride seemed to take the ring-a-ding out of it somehow.

I... would not expect that freedom could be found or won without a price paid.

If you want to make a good first impression, smile at people. What does it cost to smile? Nothing. What does it cost not to smile? Everything, if not smiling prevents you from enchanting people.

education sold as an investment good that has no economic return for most buyers is, quite simply, a fraud.

When you recover your old sofa from the skip and get it re-covered, it may take you a while to recover from the cost. (A hyphen can change the very meaning of a word.)

Todos somos de algún modo clientes y víctimas del Estado deficitario. No queremos pagar lo que cuesta nuestro gobierno. Por eso tenemos un Estado en quiebra que, a la larga, simplemente nos cuesta más.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

At Xerox, process owners were assigned to all the key processes. This resulted in a cost savings of $200 million per year

Lets see what did it cost you for destroying Your House (Capital) 1. Jail time 2. Attorney Fees. 3 Court Fees. 4. Your Freedom. The list goes on. YA should of stayed home and destroyed your own house it would of been Cheaper!! Just saying.

Jung observed that everyone has a pathological secret, something so scary, so shameful perhaps, so humiliating, that one will protect it nearly any cost.

There are events you witness, or in which you participate, that forever remain sacrosanct and inviolate in memory, no matter how painful that memory is, because of the cost that you or others paid in order to be there in that moment when the camera lens clicked shut.

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To be serious is to press for a specified conclusion. To be playful is to allow for possibility whatever the cost to oneself.

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Unfortunately, no matter how frivolous the lawsuit, you still, of course, have to pay people to defend you on it.

The big problem in translating is that we had to translate the language. People may not know that we record the podcast in Japanese, translate it to English and then actors play us on the podcast. I'm not actually Scott Aukerman, I'm the actor who plays his voice on the podcast. Unfortunately, it's cost prohibitive on a television show.

Russian subs are a bargain at $60,000. Unfortunately, none of the dials or instructions are in English.

The people who are sending our men and women in uniform into conflict need to understand that there are some things worth fighting for, but also understand the high cost of war.

No, don't learn at karate schools. They overcharge you for karate uniforms. They make you pay, like, fifty or seventy-five bucks just for a karate uniform, and you don't wear a uniform in everyday life, so why train in one? Most fights take place outdoors, not inside with perfect lighting and mats.

In well-functioning markets, price equals opportunity cost. Meaning that the proper way to price out and charge us for things is to charge us what those resources could otherwise have produced. This is a lesson the Soviet Union never learned at all, and the rest is history.

The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.

In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state's role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.

Public-sector union organisers have told me about how firefighters, police officers, and nurses can no longer afford to live in the cities they serve and protect.