Quotes About Cost

As the son of a small business owner, I know how regulatory overreach can stifle our economy and cost Americans jobs.

I was attacked for being stingy and not spreading money around to popular programs. Ahead of my 2019 run for governor, those stances cost me politically.

Lower interest rates are usually considered good for stocks because they lower the cost of borrowing and make bonds a less attractive alternative investment.

Two thoughts occur to just about any parent whose child is about to enter college. The first is, 'I can't believe how quickly the years have gone by.' The second: 'I can't believe how much it costs.' As one of those parents, I did my best to get past the disturbing first thought and tried to calm my churning stomach while dealing with the second.

The pollution problem is always seen as someone who was doing something bad that has to be stopped. To me, pollution is doing something bad and good. People don't pollute because they like polluting. They do it because it's a cheaper way of producing something else.

Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What's that have to do with space exploration? If we were moving outward from there, and an asteroid is a good stopping point, then fine. But now it's turned into a whole planetary defense exercise at the cost of our outward exploration.

Data is cost. It takes money to create data, store it, clean it, and throw resources at it to learn anything from it.

I don't care how much it costs or who it's by as long as it fits me. I love shopping, but I go to the same stores I've always gone to: Guess, Bebe, Coach. I can't really skip out of that realm.

We need to start seeing Moore's Law apply to healthcare," I said. "What's Moore's Law?" the senator asked. "You have to understand, Senator," Reid interjected, "that in Washington, you assume that every year things cost more and do less. In Silicon Valley, everyone expects our products to cost less every year but do more.

The financial cost20 was around £47 million, an appalling sum for those days. The cost in idealism, energy, and enthusiasm was probably higher. Bitterness, cynicism, disillusionment, emigration, censorship, clericalism and stagnation became the hallmarks of Irish society

Full value for your soul wouldn't get you a cup of coffee at a convenience store.

In an information industry the cost of monopoly must not be measured in dollars alone, but also in its effect on the economy of ideas and images, the restraint of which can ultimately amount to censorship.

If we want to define how "open" any industry is, we should start with a number: the cost of entry. By this we simply mean the monetary cost of getting into the business with a reasonable shot at reaching customers. Is it in the neighborhood of $100? $10,000? Or more like $1 billion? Whatever the magnitude, that number, most definitively, is what determines whether an industry is open or closed.

Loveliness, he said, is paid for in the currency of suffering.

Testifying before Congress, Dr. Laughlin said sterilization laws would lead to lower taxes, lessening the burden of society to take care of people with epilepsy, the blind, the deaf, and the mentally disabled, not to mention the high cost of jailing criminals prone to music and art.

Options - the ability to choose - is real power. This book is all about how to see and create those options with the least effort and cost. It just so happens, paradoxically, that you can make more money - a lot more money - by doing half of what you are doing now.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."—Warren Buffett

Por cada dólar de ingreso que generas, ¿puedes inducir un coste de cinco a diez dólares para los competidores? Si es así, invierte.

Measure the cost of inaction, realize the unlikelihood and repairability of most missteps, and develop the most important habit of those who excel and enjoy doing so: action.

learned here. First, per-hour cost is not the ultimate determinant of cost. Look at per-task cost.

Qué coste te ha supuesto cada creencia o convencimiento en el pasado y qué coste le ha supuesto a la gente que has amado en el pasado?

y qué coste le ha supuesto a la gente que has amado en el pasado?

Just because something is more expensive doesn't make it better!

I personally aim for an 8–10× markup, which means a $100 product can't cost me more than $10–12.50.