Quotes About Cost

Excuses cost you more than they buy you.

The opportunity cost of an unlived dream is not only that dream, but also the dreams the dream was meant to inspire.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.

It's a great country but you can't live in it for nothing.

The first tip I would offer to those wishing to give Stoicism a try is to practice what I have referred to as stealth Stoicism: You would do well, I think, to keep it a secret that you are a practicing Stoic. (This would have been my own strategy, had I not taken it upon myself to become a teacher of Stoicism.) By practicing Stoicism stealthily, you can gain its benefits while avoiding one significant cost: the teasing and outright mockery of your friends, relatives, neighbors, and coworkers.

What farmers could profitably raise at any given location would depend on two key variables: how much people in the city were willing to pay for different crops, and how much it cost to transport those crops to market.

I wish you to believe whatever you think is true, at any and every cost.

The cost of the drug war is many times more painful, in all its manifestations, than would be the licensing of drugs combined with intensive education of non-users and intensive education designed to warn those who experiment with drugs.

Time is money, but also money is money.

The value of most high-tech products is determined by the cost of alternative solutions to the customer.

But sometimes there is no alternative approach. Then, pricing is a matter of placing a value on the solution to a particular customer problem. That value has nothing to do with the cost of building the product.

In the early fifth century BC, a roll of papyrus, consisting of about twenty sheets, cost between one and three drachmas—that is, one to three days' wages for a semiskilled worker.

The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House.

This is an aspect of crime stories I never fully appreciated until I became one: it is so ruinously expensive to mount a defense that, innocent or guilty, the accusation is itself a devastating punishment. Every defendant pays a price.

crime stories I never fully appreciated until I became one: it is so ruinously expensive to mount a defense that, innocent or guilty, the accusation is itself a devastating punishment. Every defendant pays a price.

The White middle and governing classes wish both to reduce the cost of public education to themselves and to find protected privilege for their children and grandchildren in segregated schools. Many of the myths that you will encounter in what follows serve both of these ends: Cut the cost of schooling; and further segregate schools to the advantage of the White middle class.

You can eat a Burger for $5 or a Kobe Steak for $100. They both fill you up. The real difference is the experience.

Even if you find what you are looking for, you may discover its not worth the price.

Thus, a battleship cost around £10m in 1940. Building that battleship today might cost £500m, but to build a battleship representing the same proportion of current GDP would mean spending £2.5bn.

Each decision that we make comes with a hidden price. We're never told what it is we may be asked to sacrifice.

The shift in accountability from employer to employee caused a move from reasonably well-managed, low-cost investment programs to generally poorly managed, high-cost investment programs.

Only when a good thing happens to be cheap is a cheap thing good.

Your salvation is free, but the anointing will cost you everything. The price of the anointing is simply surrender. You want to know the key to power, honestly and truly? You have to die to self. Power is found in the death of the flesh.