Quotes About Cost

He left Penguinia impoverished and depopulated. The flower of the insula perished in his wars. At the time of his fall there were left in our country none but the hunchbacks and cripples from whom we are descended. But he gave us glory." "He made you pay dearly for it!" "Glory never costs too much," replied my guide.

They know the cost of everything and the value of nothing

markup of 40% results in a price of $61,705. You could reasonably establish a price anywhere within that range.

Ma non esiste una qualità che non abbia un costo. Più bella e rara la qualità, più alto il costo

In human resource management, an employee who brings in one point three times what he costs is worth his money. In other words an actual yield of thirty percent!

When I was at art college, a can of Spray Mount adhesive cost £12: £2 more than my weekly food bill.

I don't want a few extra weeks of life at enormous cost, for example, when it comes to the end.

The fact is I've been in Massachusetts for the last two weeks, and it seems over the last few days that the price is increasing by the hour at the pump, so there needs to be an aggressive investigation.

There is value in education, but, as we do with anything else, we should start being careful to weigh that value with the price tag that's attached to it.

We're chipping away at our capacity for wonder. When hologram TVs eventually go on sale, they'll cost £20,000 and be bought only by those strange, heroic, friendless men who live in flats piled high with giant 80s mobiles and DVD players weighing eight stone.

Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.

A tuna steak and a salad? Seventy bucks. Welcome to Los Angeles.

Everything is so unstable in these times of progress at any cost, and social customs and methods of life alter so rapidly, that a few years now suffice to change completely the face of usages which, at their inception, bade fair to outlive the age - so enthusiastically were they welcomed by the public.

This federal welfare system is large, fragmented, and growing in cost. This system may have started out with good intentions, but it has become a confusing maze of programs that are overlapping, duplicative, poorly coordinated and difficult to administer.

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.

Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.

Most of the people who make decisions about global health are in the U.S. and Western Europe. There, the mental health care system is dominated by highly trained, expensive professionals in big hospitals, who often see patients over long periods of time. This simply can't be done in rural Africa or India. Who the hell can afford that kind of care?

Even if America entered the war, it is improbable that the Allied armies could invade Europe and overwhelm the Axis powers. But one thing is certain. If England can draw this country into the war, she can shift to our shoulders a large portion of the responsibility for waging it and for paying its cost.

I would probably, in my 60s, be ready to start having kids, as long as I was spared all the stuff about it that doesn't appeal to me. By then, I'd have lost interest in practically everything, so there'd be no opportunity cost involved.

The grim irony of investing is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we get precisely what we don't pay for.

I looked into putting 'Doctor' on my license. But the insurance premium is higher, so I don't think I'll bother.

Economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research and University of Chicago persuasively argue that one of the biggest reasons for the nation's current obesity epidemic is that food is now so much cheaper and easier to prepare.

Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.

We need to lower the cost of healthcare and prescription drugs instead of making it easier for insurance companies to charge more for less inclusive coverage.