Quotes About Cost

You don't need no gun control, you know what you need? We need some bullet control. Men, we need to control the bullets, that's right. I think all bullets should cost five thousand dollars… five thousand dollars per bullet… You know why? Cause if a bullet cost five thousand dollars there would be no more innocent bystanders.

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

Well, in our industry it's that the movies cost so much money to make they have to appeal to a broad audience. And I think that's part of what will loosen up in the future, as technology makes it cheaper, you'll be able to make films for a more selective audience. I think people will be able to make more personal movies.

the government moved swiftly to mandate that all trains should have "positive train control," an electronic signaling system that will automatically stop or slow down a train to prevent a crash if the engineer misses a red signal. Although the system may ultimately benefit the railroads marginally by making it possible to run extra trains, effectively they are being asked to pay several billion dollars

I once heard my mother tell my sister love only comes at a price, there's no way around it. You give up parts of yourself for love, she said. If that's true, I thought, the cost of our love had risen. And despite wanting to be as real to you as you were to me, I couldn't afford us any longer. We were beyond my means.

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high

Well, if your books cost what they're worth, I couldn't afford them.

Si vuestros libros costaran lo que valen, yo no podría permitirme comprarlos.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

A baby-sitter is a teenager who gets two dollars an hour to eat five dollars' worth of your food.

No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money.

They take their pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost little

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

4. Manufacturing is not buying low and selling high. It is the process of buying materials fairly and, with the smallest possible addition of cost, transforming those materials into a consumable product and giving it to the consumer. Gambling, speculating, and sharp dealing, tend only to clog this progression.

Increasingly better product at an ever?decreasing price.

The fact that a piece of work is now being done by nine men which used to be done by ten men does not mean that the tenth man is unemployed. He is merely not employed on that work, and the public is not carrying the burden of his support by paying more than it ought on that work—for after all, it is the public that pays!

Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for.

The total cost of printing was £1,239. 11s. 6d. In addition to Johnson's £1,575, at least £1,500 was spent on paper—a large, though not freakish, figure, since the purchase of paper was usually reckoned to account for half the cost of publishing a book. Still, this meant the outlay was in the region of £4,500.

It's the professional shame that hurts the most,' I said to him. I wheeled my bike as we walked along Fleet Street. 'Vanity really. As a neurosurgeon you have to come to terms with ruining people's lives and with making mistakes. But one still feels terrible about it and how much it will cost.

An experience of God that cost nothing, does nothing, and is worth nothing.

There is a love constraining me To go and seek the lost; I yield, O Lord, my all to Thee To save at any cost!

The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid.