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Quotes About Cost

There's a myth that free-to-play is cheaper than a $60 game. It's just elastic. For some users, it winds up being a lot more expensive. I would have paid $150 a year to get a better version of FIFA.
~ Mitch Lasky
Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.
~ Anthony Trollope
The dispersal of juniper seeds is effected by the plum and cherry plan of hiring birds at the cost of their board, and thus obtaining the use of a pair of extra good wings.
~ John Muir
It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.
~ Carol Burnett
The fact is that the College Board's products - the SAT, other standardized tests, the accompanying strategy guides - are sold at far higher than the cost to make them.
~ Eliot Schrefer
When the F-16 first was rolled out, there were many problems in the development. There were cost issues, and it ended up being one of the best planes the military has ever seen and kept this country protected and kept many jobs in the North Texas area.
~ Marc Veasey
Using a service such as Chegg.com, students can save on average more than $600 a year when they rent textbooks over purchasing them.
~ Osman Rashid
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It's very expensive to treat your dog, and thankfully, I was able to do that.
~ Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
The postal department does indeed undertake a lot of thankless work and is forced to provide services below cost for bookpost and the like. The answer may lie in some form of a universal service obligation fund, not price-fixing.
~ Sucheta Dalal
I was very involved in back of the house, and finding good people is by far the hardest thing. So, when you're living in a place like New York or San Francisco, where the cost of living is so high, finding great people is very hard. Even finding remotely reliable people.
~ J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
The cable package continues to be the greatest value in the history of entertainment. The average hour watched on cable television costs between 15 and 25 cents. For most people who cannot afford other kinds of entertainment, it is their entertainment.
~ John Skipper
The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.
~ Alice Waters
We're not saying that you don't need coal, but when you do mine the coal there are responsibilities to it. It may cost a little more, but it is the right thing to do.
~ Kevin Richardson
Consumers used to think they had to compromise with solar. It was, 'Okay, I'm doing the right thing for the environment; it's cool to see the panels. I have to compromise on the cost and convenience side.' And now they no longer have to. On the cost side, it's cheaper, and on the convenience side, we set it all up.
~ Lynn Jurich
I guess I've accepted that theatre is never going to be edgy in the way I want it to be. It's too expensive for a start. And, the audience seems to be complicit in the dullness.
~ Martin McDonagh
The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.
~ Rod Blagojevich
History," Bagehot wrote, "is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.
~ Roger Kimball
Price is what you pay, value is what you get.
~ Roger Lowenstein
A smile costs about $240.
~ Roma Downey
It's just a simple fact that in America drugs and booze cost money, but food is free to anyone willing to snooze through a gospel message.
~ Ron Hall
The price of fuel may have tipped the balance.
~ Ron Rosenbaum
For the amount of money that the country is going to spend this year on health care, you can go out and hire a doctor for every seven families in the US and pay the doctor almost $230 000 a year to cover them.
~ Ron Wyden