Quotes About Cost

It was always cheaper to build a new 33-MegaLith circle than upgrade an old slow one.

There's nothing more fun than just walking through town or maybe going to a community-based festival. How much does that cost? Nothing!

I think that the day a justice forgets that each decision comes at a cost to someone, then I think you start losing your humanity.

The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labor just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job.

Making labor less expensive helps firms hire people.

In a certain sense, choosing an operating system was similar to buying a car. Besides the purchase price, there was a cost of ownership. The size of an operating system largely determined the amount of memory required by the computer. Just as some cars guzzled gas, some operating systems consumed large amounts of memory.

Life was expensive anywhere you were.

So do not worry about asset protection being unaffordable.

A man will believe anything that does not cost him anything," said

they were demons about cost. They enjoyed finding a bargain and were proud of getting good quality at a low price. They took great satisfaction in not paying extra for fancy packaging or marketing gimmicks. They were committed to keeping the weekly shopping bill as low as possible.

Rational decisions are necessarily bounded by the information available to employees. If managers don't understand what it will cost to capture an incremental dollar in revenue, they will always pursue the incremental revenue.

The best way for me to live this out is to keep asking myself, 'What is my love for my wife costing me?' If the answer is 'nothing,' then I'm not loving my wife as Christ loved the church.

There's no such thing as free kittens.

Everything comes with a price. Everything. Some things just cost more than others.

Peter's face clouded. "Everything comes at a price. Or have you not learned that yet?

For the world is a hard place and nothing comes without a price.

There is so precious little magic left in this world . . . so little. Why must your ambitions come at such a cost?

Get money--but stop once in a while to figure what it is costing you to get it. No man gets it without giving something in return.

In 2015, a petabyte of cloud storage will cost $100,000 per year, down 90% from $1 million in 2011.

For many organizations, security comes down to basic economics. If the cost of security is less than the likely cost of losses due to lack of security, security wins. If the cost of security is more than the likely cost of losses, accept the losses.

Free" is a special price, and there has been all sorts of psychological research showing that people don't act rationally around it. We overestimate the value of free. We consume more of something than we should when it's free. We pressure others to consume it. Free warps our normal sense of cost vs. benefit, and people end up trading their personal data for less than its worth.

The Internet of Things is not about a talking refrigerator, because that is the old-fashioned consumer retail world of electrical white goods. It's an archaic concept, like software bought in a plastic-wrapped box from a shelf. The genuine Internet of Things wants to invade that refrigerator, measure it, instrument it, monitor any interactions with it; it would cheerfully give away a fridge at cost.

It is precisely because education is so affordable that the labor market expects us to possess so much. Without the subsidies, you would no longer need the education you can no longer afford.

Higher education is the only product where the consumer tries to get as little out of it as possible. —Arnold Kling, "College Customers vs. Suppliers"41