Quotes About Cost

In home furnishing terms, past a certain point, more money doesn't get you anything except an increase in insurance premiums. An

It seemed he was the perfect lover, at least for the moment. He did not live where you lived. He did not see you often enough, or for long enough, for you to grow bored, or to feel afraid that you were not feeling love---or worse, that you were. The perfection had a cost, which is that he was not in any true sense a real person. He was a coat you bought off the rack, an unsuperlative fashion statement.

part of me was trying not to react to my mom's palpable concern about how much the meal would cost.

I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down.

the reality is that globalization and international economic integration are too far advanced to be undone, except at very great cost.

In buying Treasury securities, our ultimate goal was to precipitate a broad reduction in the cost of credit.†

Songdo in South Korea was built from scratch along these specifications on land reclaimed from the Yellow Sea at a cost of $35 billion. Labelled the twenty-first century's "high-tech utopia," it is a living city, touted as

nobody in the world ever learns except at his own expense...

The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.

One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.

Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.

Gasoline prices are a direct reflection of the cost of the raw materials to produce the gasoline, no different than any other product that you would buy, whether it's a good or some other consumable, or it's a luxury item. It's all a function of what do the raw materials cost.

Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in coverage.

The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.

People who have come to appreciate well-sourced and well-cooked food refuse to pay too much for food that they wouldn't want to pay anything for.

It's just astonishing to me that the media is so interested in how much it costs to secure our border and has no interest in the cost of refusing to secure our border.

My expenses are largely a fixed, sunken cost, regardless of how much revenue I earn.

I didn't cost the Series. I cost a game in the regular season.

A focus on regulatory overreach, things that the benefit doesn't outweigh the cost, is probably the single greatest opportunity we have for having a positive impact on job creation.

Regulatory failings mean that the cost of breaking the law is far below that of obeying it - businesses are happier to pay fines than to control pollution.

Applying cost-benefit analysis to regulation is no different than what most regulatory agencies do.

Do we want more of the same regulatory mission creep that has helped to harm America's poor and middle class? Do we want more of the policies that have stifled growth? Or do we want something else, something different, something that focuses on the need to reevaluate the size, the scope, the cost, the reach of the federal government?

And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise.

From the beginning, we believed that it was possible to develop direct relationships with customers at a relatively cheap cost, and our plan was to build a lifestyle brand that was also an Internet company - a rarity for eyewear.