Quotes About Costs

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

The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.

The really staggering production costs at the major studios were not the salaries of the artists, but the Croesus-like bonuses handed out to executives at the end of each year. In the thirties an unbelievable 20–25 per cent of the net earnings of the majors went to remunerate a tiny handful of production chiefs, studio owners and New York executives.

On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big.

While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.

When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of the system's most expensive patients to treat - they received astounding results.

My comprehensive health care plan will lower costs, strengthen Medicaid, and codify protections for people with pre-existing conditions into state law. That will lift up all working families. But our veterans face unique challenges and they deserve a governor who will deliver them specific solutions to expand access and increase options.

Producers need to bear additional costs of safety measures such as sanitization of the location, provision of masks, gloves, transport, and insurance. It is possible to accommodate these costs in a viable manner.

Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression.

America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.

I employ 20 people in Vienna. The other 130 coworkers are pilots and flight companions. The Overhead is limited with me. Reduces naturally the costs of my fliers.

Lyndon Johnson is not a comfortable model for President Obama to imitate. He is an all-but-forgotten president - pilloried for the failed war in Vietnam and criticized for grandiose reforms conservatives denounce as the epitome of federal social engineering that costs too much and does too little.

A whaleman was not paid a wage but a "lay," which was a share of the outcome of the voyage, calculated after the ship had arrived home. First, the oil was gauged, and then it was valued, according to the prevailing market. After that, the costs of the voyage, plus the owners' half of the profits, were subtracted from the gross amount, and the remainder shared out according to the whalemen's lays.

A distinct strategy will produce its own unique structure. One strategy might, for example, result in 20 percent higher costs but 35 percent higher price. Companies such as Apple or BMW lean in that direction. Another strategy might lead to 10 percent lower costs and 5 percent lower price. Companies such as IKEA and Southwest have chosen this kind of structure. Where the net result of the configuration is positive, the strategy has, by definition, created competitive advantage.

learned about our fixed and variable costs, the better I could forecast our nut, the amount of gross profit we'd need each month to stay in business. My little dog fell

Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it but if often costs the world very dear.

Salespeople on commission, for example, are seldom sensitive to the costs of the sales they produce.

Americans thus proved themselves ready to remember an idealized version of the men who had fought the war while forgetting the actual people. At least in the minds of the politicians and the general public, the veterans represented a demographic small enough to forget. Such a mind-set has made the costs of the war, perhaps the experience of war itself, difficult for the United States to fully grasp.

The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.

The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.

Because truth hurts, truth costs, truth upends your world.

There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs until the struggle is over. Women find this point in childbirth; men in battle.

Aside from true emergencies, most health care decisions are shoppable.

Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.