Quotes About Costs

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

I have become a bargain - where do you find a player who scores 28 goals in Serie A and costs €28m? Nowhere, right?

Obamacare is not working for Mississippians, who have had fewer choices and higher costs since that bill was passed.

Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.

So let's find a way to protect people differently than Obamacare, because Obamacare's answer was, 'Just make everybody pay more'.

Obamacare is making the market for health care less competitive.

The mechanical food system externalizes a lot of costs like obesity or Type 2 diabetes.

The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.

Obamacare's terrifyingly cumbersome, competition-hostile apparatus for controlling medical costs is one of its most obvious flaws.

The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year

The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year," he noted. "There is no reason to believe it will not remain nearly constant for at least ten years.

Life has taught me that one's most precious asset is the spirit of 'independence at all costs'... the constant disposition to risk all in the interests of a connection.

Anyone with faith in economic man would think that people would put up with the pain of a long commute only if they enjoyed even greater benefits from cheaper housing or bigger, finer homes or higher-paying jobs. They would weigh the costs and benefits and make sensible decisions. A couple of University of Zurich economists discovered that this simply isn't the case.

Many North American cities are just waking up to the fact that they have been engaging in a massive urban Ponzi scheme, with new development creating short-term benefits in development fees and tax revenues but even bigger long-term costs that pile up faster than cities' ability to pay them off.

A healthy society leads to lower healthcare costs, improved productivity at work and a better quality of life for citizens. Food is a big part of public health. About time we knew what we are putting in our mouths.

Peace is the short interval when nations toil to pay the costs of past and future wars.

There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values.

Moreover, even if they are eventually weeded out, one-sided managerial compensation packages impose huge costs on the rest of the economy while they last. The workers have to be constantly squeezed through downward pressure on wages, casualization of employment and permanent downsizing, so that the managers can generate enough extra profits to distribute to the shareholders and keep them from raising issues with high executive pay (for more on this, see Thing 2).

We pay large costs, particularly in energy costs and birthing difficulties, for our cognitive apparatus. Is this another cultural consequence?47

It is not how long you work at some task that determines what you'll receive for it in exchange. It is the value someone else places upon the product or service that determines what it is worth in exchange. Your "costs" are not important to the other person. He only cares about the value of the product to himself. What he'll pay to get your service is based solely on the value he places upon the object

When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol. So, a movie like 'The Artist' that costs $14 million, has to go out and compete with movies that cost $140 million. How does David deal with Goliath?

De acuerdo con la definición más sólida y aceptada, la disuasión dependía de convencer al objetivo de que los costes previstos superarían con mucho las presumibles ganancias; además, la disuasión se caracterizaba por limitar las ganancias al tiempo que se aumentaban los costes.

Cuando en 1914 Ford empezó a tener dificultades para mantener una fuerza de trabajo estable debido a la monotonía y el aburrimiento de la línea de montaje, anunció que pagaría a sus trabajadores cinco dólares diarios. Siempre dijo que ese había sido uno de los «recortes de costes de producción más inteligentes que hemos hecho».