Quotes About Cost

There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.

In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.

When people have to pay more and own more of the risk themselves, their decisions about where and how they live will change.

On Jones's instruction, Larry Schacht ordered one pound of sodium cyanide, enough for 1,800 lethal doses. It cost $8.85.

And now Rob was about to turn 5, she was thinking about elementary school, determined to send her son to a private school. That cost money. Not much, but not much was relative. She knew that the security required to afford tuition would be a stretch to maintain anywhere else except on Chapman Street.

But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do I really want? Was it to love what God commands, in the words of the collect, and to desire what He promises? Did I want what I wanted, or did I want what He wanted, no matter what it might cost?

Though unconditional love has a price tag, what a bargain price it is for such a reward.

The commuter college I went to in 1970 now charges tuition of $ 10,312 a year for in-state students—and that's cheaper than most state schools. (Just so we're all on the same page: my $ 50 tuition from 1970 works out to about $ 300 in 2016 dollars.)

He said he had it against Helmut Schauffler that he was the living, walking, detestable proof of a war won at considerable personal cost by one set of men, and wantonly thrown away by others

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

The final selling price of $67,000 was less than Christensen had paid to have the ship built

We might as reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by utility or cost of production.

These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.

Why would anyone want to drink a poisonous, highly addictive drug that tastes foul; a drug that will shorten your life, debilitate your immune system and impede your concentration; a drug that will destroy your nervous system, your confidence, your courage and your ability to relax? Why would you want to take a drug that will cost you about £100,000/$160,000 in your lifetime and do absolutely nothing for you whatsoever?

Nije li sjajno da obi?na i skromna ruka može nadomjestiti nešto tako složeno, tako skupo, nešto što je tako teško izvesti na pozornici i nešto tako optere?eno duševnim stanjima kao što je seks? Da ta ljubazna ruka, bez velikih pri?a, pruža isto toliko (ako ne i više) užitka kao neka dosadna žena, koju je uz to još skupo uzdržavati, nije li to divno?

I just believe that the cost of marketing is going to increase and the cost of delivery is going to decrease as the Net gets stronger and mass media gets weaker.

The fallout from the Biden Administration's weakness isn't just limited to far-off countries across the sea. We're seeing the very real cost at our southern border.

Everything has an opportunity cost, and the big things we want in life - like happiness and healthy relationships and wealth - they all have big opportunity costs.

Whether you are a low-income elderly woman living at the end of a dirt road in Vermont or a wealthy CEO living on Park Avenue, you get your mail six days a week. And you pay for this service at a cost far less than anywhere else in the industrialized world.

Perhaps the country's most pressing problem is its high uninsured rate. Every other country as wealthy as the United States has figured out how to cover its entire population, generally at a much lower cost, too.

To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare program, their cost would be well within the resources available to many large private organizations.

I said in October of 2008 that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or had the intention or capability of attacking the United States. Here we are. Almost 4,700 troops died, tens of thousands injured, over a million Iraqis dead. It will cost $5 trillion in the end for the war.

We need to cut unnecessary weapons programs like the F-35 fighter plane that cost trillions of dollars and don't even work.