Quotes About Cost

When it comes to health care policy, we keep failing to take seriously the value of human relationships. The cost of this oversight is staggering.

As consumers are being asked to pay more of the cost of healthcare services, they will increasingly demand more value and will also ask for more transparency and tools to determine the value they are receiving.

It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.

That which costs little is less valued.

When you are led by values, it doesn't cost your business, it helps your business.

To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

for the money that her outfit cost my grandpa.

That is, cleaning up pollution is usually far more expensive than preventing pollution, just as doctors usually find it far more expensive and less effective to try to cure already sick patients than to prevent diseases in the first place by cheap, simple public health measures.

We calculate that our urgings of the coauthors of those com- pleted volumes cost us on the average, per volume, two friendships for life and several more friendships for at least a decade.

We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.

I had never come across a talking cat before, but good manners, as my father used to say, cost nothing.

The best place, although relatively expensive, is the back page of a newspaper or magazine—where response can be as much as 150 percent greater than from the same ad inside the publication.

the amount of work required to prepare the catalog for the printer makes it cost-ineffective unless you print 25,000 copies. It's only a rule of thumb, but it's a good one.

It costs six times more to sell a product or a service to a new customer than it does to an existing customer.

They make it part of their DNA because they know that it now costs six times more to sell something to a new customer than to an existing customer.

What one exorcises in this [imagery] way at little cost, and for the price of a few tears, will never in effect be reproduced

I have learned what love costs. I never count it but I know what it costs.

There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror. And then, next day, you didn't know what to make of it,you couldn't interpret the horror you had glimpsed the day before. Yes, you know what evil costs.

I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it does. I think the Shuttle is worth it for the work it does.

Gas is getting so expensive I'm gonna ride a mexican to work.

Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.

Cheap work is seldom, if ever, valuable. Usually, it's just cheap.

In our perform agenda, segmentation is one of our key strategic priorities. Segmentation is about deploying the right go-to-market channel to the right customers with the right pricing and the right cost to serve. And as a result, the segmentation strategy ensures that we generate profitable growth.

First and foremost, localization is a customer strategy, it's not a cost arbitrage or whatever.