The Cost Quotes

The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it.

The longer an article is in the process of manufacture and the more it is moved about, the greater its ultimate cost.

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

Under a neoliberal regime, the language of authority, power and command is divorced from ethics, social responsibility, critical analysis and social costs.

To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money.

Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.

I want to focus on what are called kitchen table issues. You know, the ones that keep you up at night, like the cost of childcare and college and prescription drugs and so much else.

We're going to do everything we can to make sure workers are treated like assets, not costs.

A respected health economist said that these plans would cost a trillion dollars more a year.

We need a cost-effective, high-quality health care system, guaranteeing health care to all of our people as a right.

I am not going to make promises I can't keep. I am not going to talk about big ideas like single-payer and then not level with people about how much it will cost.

Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.

We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.

Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it is that you can't cut enough costs to save your way to prosperity.

I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them.

The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.

Never invest yourself in anything so deeply that its failure could cost you your happiness.

Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet.

The country has to change. Productivity in Australia more generally has got to improve. Some of the highest manufacturing costs in the world are coming out of Australia.

Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.

Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.

Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.

All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.

In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.

Sometimes the cost of integrity is the loss of a friend.

Six Sigma is a quality program that, when all is said and done, improves your customers' experience, lowers your costs, and builds better leaders.

If you look at the cost of providing health insurance, it actually doesn't cost more to provide a plan with contraceptive coverage than it does without.

Nothing important happens in life without a cost.

What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?

Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.

I wanted things. Whatever it cost and whatever it took, I would do it. And that's it.

At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.

Technological innovation has dramatically lowered the cost of computing, making it possible for large numbers of consumers to own powerful new technologies at reasonably low prices.

It's offensive to me to be called a cost cutter.

I completely agree with the concept that American citizens shouldn't expect that a failure of a bank would cost them money, or that it would hurt the economy.

All businesses tend to pass costs onto customers.

A couple of times, I could have turned a trick. But I didn't want to start. I knew how it would play. When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.

We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.

Congress passes bills that appropriate money. Congress says, 'We're building this bridge or funding that defense project, and they cost this much.'

I feel bad for people who die on Valentine's Day. How much would flowers cost then, ten grand?

They said that President Bush's war in Iraq has cost the former Spanish Prime Minister his job. So President Bush isn't losing American jobs anymore, he's branching out to other countries.

Some Democrats say the estimated $60 billion dollar cost of a war with Iraq could be better spent at home. When he heard that, President Bush agreed and announced plans to bomb Ohio.

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.

Save for your goals. Take note of what's coming your way - vacations, the holidays, what ever is going to cost you money - and start saving ahead of time so that you have a stash when the time comes.

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost?

Some things are worth the cost of their consequences.

I've been related to everything. Even the production; I knew how much it cost, I knew where the money went. It didn't last long, because hierarchy came back again.

You might be a redneck if your 'huntin dog' cost more than the truck you drive him around in.