Cost Quotes

I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.

There is no question that managed care is managed cost, and the idea is that you can save a lot of money and make health care costs less if you ration it.

America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.

Joy, has no cost.

I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.

Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.

I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. But I cleared everything. I had a lawyer in New York. And it was cleared for use in a short subject, not a feature.

Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.

Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death.

You replace it by 23 percent tax, a frank, transparent tax embedded in the cost at retail, and everybody gets to takes their whole check home. And the average income earner gets a 50 percent increase in take-home pay.

Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn.

Time Warner has been managed for the short term. This has damaged the company's fundamental competitive position and its prospects for growth. This approach has cost shareholders a staggering $40 billion.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.

The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around 20,000 pounds. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child.

The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.

As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

Ladies be seated, a laugh doesn't cost you a dime.

The fact remains that most of us are anesthetized to the true cost and true value of long term care insurance.

Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.

Our goal is to show that you can develop a robust, safe manned space program and do it at an extremely low cost.

One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed.

You know, if we're going to bring down the price of gas, you have to have three things. You have to have a big reserve, you have to have the ability to develop oil out of that reserve quickly, and you have to be able to produce oil at a relatively low cost.

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.

Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of products, avoiding overlaps, exchange of best practices.