Quotes About Costs

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.

Hold onto your innocence of heart, at all costs! Because it is the spark of deity that you are born with. Don't let the trolls steal your divineness.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

We could afford the price of peace. Love is all it costs.

This year I hope to introduce legislation that would require Power Administrations to list direct and indirect costs associated with ESA compliance as a line item on customer's power bills.

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

the market prices of quasi-commodities are not related to the costs in their own manufacturing area, but to the cost structure of the lower-cost competitors and their willingness to operate at certain margin levels.

Three Principles of Short- and Long-Term Performance 1.?Scrub accounting and business practices down to what is real. 2.?Invest in the future, but not excessively. 3.?Grow while keeping fixed costs constant.

In fact, wealth-maximizing individuals compare the after-tax costs of debt with the after-tax returns from bonds, liquidating bond positions to pay off loans when the costs of debt exceed the returns from bonds. Rational investors consider liability positions when making asset allocations.

Personal residences and privately held businesses constitute important nonfinancial assets on many personal balance sheets. Homeownership insulates individuals from changes in the cost of renting a place to live. Since inflation-sensitive habitation costs constitute a significant portion of most household budgets, homeownership reduces the need for inflation-hedging assets in investor portfolios.

Competition forces factory owners to mechanize production, so as to reduce labor costs, but while this is to the short-term advantage of the individual firm, the overall effect of such mechanization is actually to drive the overall rate of profit of all firms down.

Success should be judged on how few people are homeless, not by how much more it costs every year to buy a house.

A cap of good acid costs $5, and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony, with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.

In the long run, it costs more to provide poor rather than good service.

Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.

Let's ask why it is that we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, and your medicine can be doubled tomorrow, and there's nothing that the government can do to stop it.

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else.

Western governments should bear their responsibilities toward the welfare of their people and not try to make oil producers pay the costs

I will set a target for the reduction of (government) employees ... I will implement the reduction of the total personnel costs of the employees.

For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching.

Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate the hospital, such as doctors and nurses.

I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

We need to be careful when we talk about cutting health care costs. They are not going to be reduced - what we really want to do is do is slow the rate of increase.