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Quotes About Cost

In 2013, the International Academy of Astronautics issued a 350-page report projecting that with enough funding and research, a space elevator capable of carrying multiple twenty-ton payloads might be possible by 2035. Price estimates usually range from $10 billion to $50 billion—a fraction of the $150 billion that went into the International Space Station.
~ Michio Kaku
Un flujo pieza a pieza al menor coste posible.» Tal como hemos visto en el capítulo 3, esta visión no procede de Toyota ni de Japón, y ya ha sido perseguida desde hace unos cuantos cientos de años. ¿Por qué no adoptar esta visión de la producción ampliamente reconocida y ponerse en marcha?
~ Mike Rother
Love always costs more than you can afford to pay," he said. "And it's always worth the price.
~ Sarah Rees Brennan
Although I love the taste of Nutrageous bars, I am nutraged at their new, high price.
~ Dana Gould
paradox—if you want more security, you have to pay for it with less freedom.
~ Brenda Novak
Price. You're priceless.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Expensive depends on your means.
~ Brian Freeman
The Universe operates on a basic principle of economics: everything has its cost. We pay to create our future, we pay for the mistakes of the past. We pay for every change we make . . . and we pay just as dearly if we refuse to change.
~ Brian Herbert
Serena grew angry. How could that representative worry about petty price tags, when the ultimate cost was so much higher? "We will all pay—in blood—if we do not do this. We must strengthen the League and the human species.
~ Brian Herbert
The Universe operates on a basic principle of economics: everything has its cost. We pay to create our future, we pay for the mistakes of the past. We pay for every change we make Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and we pay just as dearly if we refuse to change. —Guild Bank Annals, Philosophical Register
~ Brian Herbert
The Universe operates on a basic principle of economics: everything has its cost. We pay to create our future, we pay for the mistakes of the past. We pay for every change we make . . . and we pay just as dearly if we refuse to change. —Guild Bank Annals, Philosophical Register
~ Brian Herbert
In desperation we may agree to pay any price. Only later do we learn the true cost. —MENTAT PEARTEN, new Lampadas school archives
~ Brian Herbert
The Universe operates on a basic principle of economics: everything has its cost. We pay to create our future, we pay for the mistakes of the past. We pay for every change we make Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and we pay just as dearly if we refuse to change. Guild Bank Annals, Philosophical Register
~ Brian Herbert
Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There is a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
~ Brian Tracy
With no-load index funds, no transaction fees are levied on contributions. Moreover, mutual funds will automatically reinvest all dividends back into the fund whereas additional transactions could be required to reinvest ETF dividends. We recommend that individuals making periodic contributions to a retirement plan use low-cost indexed mutual funds rather than ETFs.
~ Burton G. Malkiel
The average actively managed mutual fund charges about one percentage point of assets each year for managing the portfolio. It is the expenses charged by professional "active" managers that drag their return well below that of the market as a whole. Low-cost index funds charge only one-tenth as much for portfolio management. Index funds do not need to hire highly paid security analysts to travel around the world in a vain attempt to find "undervalued" securities. In
~ Burton G. Malkiel
Buck had lobbied for a banjo player but Lane said they cost too much, which made no fucking sense to Buck because a banjo's got fewer strings than a damn guitar.
~ Carl Hiaasen
The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness, and low self-esteem mesh to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.
~ Carl Sagan
the cost of education is trivial compared to the cost of ignorance
~ Carl Sagan
I thought we'd already determined that you haven't the right to order me about. That can only be purchased with a special license from the archbishop. He shook his head before saying softly, I'm afraid I can no longer afford to purchase such a license. Not when it could cost the both of us so dearly.
~ Teresa Medeiros
Nothing gained without cost is valued. I was reminded of that fact only today. She was the one we buried. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it, so that all will value and preserve it.
~ Terry Goodkind
Why people take drugs baffles me to no end. Especially when they can't afford them.
~ Terry McMillan
It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free.
~ Terry Pratchett
If I'd had to buy you, you wouldn't be worth the price.
~ Terry Pratchett