Quotes About Cost

We knew well how much these people were paying for cocaine - and that the more coke cost, the more people wanted it. We applied the same market plan to our budding catering operation, along with a similar pricing structure, and business was suddenly very, very, good.

Customers should understand that what they are paying for, in any restaurant situation, is not just what's on the plate—but everything that's not on the plate: all the bone, skin, fat, and waste product which the chef did pay for, by the pound.

O peixe é um negócio complicado. O snapper vermelho pode custar ao chefe apenas oito euros por quilo, mas esse valor inclui as espinhas, a cabeça, as escamas e tudo o mais que é cortado e deitado fora. Pronto, o preço real de cada filete limpo custou ao chefe mais do dobro daquela quantia e, assim, ele realmente prefere vendê-lo a deitá-lo no lixo. Se ainda não cheirar mal na segunda-feira à noite, você irá comê-lo.

Expense Ratio. This expense is the main "price tag"—the number they want us focused on.

And, most experts agree, the ultimate diversification tool for individual investors is the low-fee index fund, which gives you the broadest exposure to the largest numbers of securities for the lowest cost.

His best single rant: "maximum diversification, minimal cost, and maximum tax efficiency, low turnover [trading], and low turnover cost, and no sales loads." How

And most individual investors pay too much for the privilege of being average.

A lot of people like ETFs because they give you a tremendous amount of diversity at a low cost. In fact, many ETFs have lower fees than even comparable traditional index funds, and sometimes lower minimum investment requirements.

but there might be a question whether he was not paying too dearly for his whistle. And

Om te weten wat vrijheid inhoudt, moet je informeren wat de prijs is, die je geacht wordt ervoor te betalen.

They want the shield, but they don't like having to pay for it—

It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.

But consider!' I said earnestly. 'Count the cost! Your brain may, as you say, be roused and excited, but it is a pathological and morbid process which involves increased tissue-change and may at least leave a permanent weakness. You know, too, what a black reaction comes upon you. Surely the game is hardly worth the candle.

Valor não é quanto uma coisa custa, rapaz. Isso é lenda. Valor é quanto alguém está disposto a pagar. Ou ser pago

Good days can last a long time if one tends to things with care and caution; all sensible people know that. That's why I think that sensible people have to be satisfied with the good days – for the grandest of days are costly indeed.

Pyrrhus invaded Italy at the start of the campaigning season in 280 BC. In two brutal and bloody battles he successfully defeated the Romans. The Greek king, though, having seen so many of his soldiers slaughtered in achieving this success, was said to have remarked, 'With another victory like this, we will be finished!' (Hence our modern phrase 'pyrrhic victory'.)

These services become affordable when you value them.

I stare into his eyes, I shake my head, sorry for the chance we lost. The chance we maybe never had. But not for saving him. I would do that again, no matter the cost.

Plus, you know, the buffet really is excellent. And my appetite has greatly recovered after a few cups of coffee. In fact, I've decided to switch from the 5:2 diet to the "get the most from your buffet because it's costing you a fortune" diet.

though it costs a little sorrow in the bargain

We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.

The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it.

Clear and plain glass is considered cheap while the same glass if tinted with color is considered expensive. that's today's world. It's better to be tinted than being clear.

Notice how our economists still act as though replacing human labor with fossil fuel-derived energy is always a good idea, even at a time when unemployment is pandemic and the cost of energy is a rising burden on economies around the world.