Quotes About Expense

I say, "So the bottom line is this: to give the robots more to do, we released more materials." "Which, in turn, increased inventories," says Stacey. "Which has increased our costs," I add. "But the cost of those parts went down," says Lou. "Did it?" I ask. "What about the added carrying cost of inventory? That's operational expense. And if that went up, how could the cost of parts go down?

Throughput is the money coming in. Inventory is the money currently inside the system. And operational expense is the money we have to pay out to make throughput happen. One measurement for the incoming money, one for the money still stuck inside, and one for the money going out.

She began to cry. "Cry quicker, or the call'll get too expensive.

Most people pay too much for the things they get for nothing.

Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions. Therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion; for voluntary undoing, may be as well for a man's country, as for the kingdom of heaven. But ordinary expense, ought to be limited by a man's estate; and governed with such regard, as it be within his compass; and not subject to deceit and abuse of servants; and ordered to the best show, that the bills may be less than the estimation abroad.

I think that good, great things can come at every price.

On 'Game of Thrones,' we always shoot away from the green screen because it's bloody expensive to shoot green screen.

Also note that only 50 percent of your meal costs can be deducted while traveling.

The biggest cost in making a sofa is the labor/time, thus why recovering one cost almost just as much as a new one.

Clients do not expect the infrastructure to be any less reliable just because the service is being delivered from an offshore location; thus, the uptime requirements justify the expense.

I get parking tickets all the time.

If you can get tickets, a show on Broadway is worth the effort and expense.

Cock-fighting, which has attained to the dignity of a literature of its own, is the popular Malay sport; but the grand sport is a tiger and buffalo fight, reserved for rare occasions, however, on account of its expense. Cock-fighting is a source of gigantic gambling and desperate feuds.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense

This morning came home my fine camlet cloak, with gold buttons, and a silk suit, which cost me much money, and I pray God to make me able to pay for it.

You know, dramas are much more expensive to do than say a comedy, so any kind of deficit like that is picked up on when it comes time for them to pick up new shows.

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

I don't believe the 'Evening Pulpit' can prove it, — and I'm sure that they can't attempt to prove it without an expense of three or four thousand pounds. That's a game in which nobody wins but the lawyers. I wonder

The Dean's complaining to his Faculty. "Why do you scientists need such expensive equipment? Why can't you be like the Math Department, which only needs a blackboard and a wastepaper basket? Better still, like the Department of Philosophy. That doesn't even need a wastepaper basket…

By Jove! I cried; if he really wants someone to share the rooms and the expense, I am the very man for him. I should prefer having a partner to being alone. Young Stamford looked rather strangely at me over his wineglass. "You don't know Sherlock Holmes yet," he said; "perhaps you would not care for him as a constant companion.

Nothing important happens in life without a cost.

Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.