Quotes About Cost

There's no such thing as a trivial thing. Everything costs; it all adds up until finally the balance shifts and we're gone again, back on the road, telling ourselves - well maybe next time

for 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to build it in the first place.

The cost of sanity, in this society, is a certain level of alienation.

Hat which cost little is less valued.

Manners cost you nothing but ignorance will cost you everything.

Advice is free: The right answer will cost plenty.

Free advice costs nothing until you act upon it.

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

Nothing . . . is ever so expensive as what is offered for free.

Nothing, the General muttered, is ever so expensive as what is offered for free.)

I liked my scotch undiluted, like I liked my truth. Unfortunately, undiluted truth was as affordable as eighteen-year-old single malt scotch.

Death does not come free of charge, for it costs us our life.

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

Partnering, however, provides a way for companies to secure needed capabilities fast and effectively while dropping their cost structure. It allows a company to leverage other companies' expertise and economies of scale. Partnering includes closing gaps in capabilities through making small acquisitions when doing so is faster and cheaper, providing access to needed expertise that has already been mastered.

Failure of management to plan for the future and to foresee problems has brought about waste of manpower, of materials, and of machine-time, all of which raise the manufacturer's cost and price that the purchaser must pay. The consumer is not always willing to subsidize this waste. The inevitable result is loss of market. Loss of market begets unemployment.

The purchasing department must change its focus from lowest initial cost of material purchased to lowest total cost.

Every farthing of the cost,All the dreaded cards foretell,Shall be paid, but from this nightNot a whisper, not a thought,Not a kiss nor look be lost.

What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?

It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.

I didn't want to have braces when I was a kid and I'm pretty sure my dad didn't want to pay for them.

In order to reclaim the joy and passion of leadership, we must walk the valley of the shadow of death and name the cost of leadership.

It had cost him dearly to clear a space where he could exist in the world as antagonistically as he liked.

Often a work of God comes with two edges, great joy and great pain, and in that matter-of-fact response Mary embraced both. She was the first person to accept Jesus on His own terms, regardless of the personal cost.

Jesus did not eliminate evil; he revealed a God willing, at immense cost, to forgive it and to heal its damage.