The Cost Quotes

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

[Unplugged] was also the cheapest to produce and required the least amount of preparation and work. But if you want to know what it actually cost me, go to Ripley and visit the grave of my son.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

If you think the cost of education is high, think about ignorance.

Successful competitors want to win. Head cases want to win at all costs.

To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at those points where there is a cost in our doing so, is to push the next generation in the relative, dialectical millstream that surrounds us.

Sincere compliments cost nothing and can accomplish much. In any relationship, they are the applause that refreshes.

Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.

Want to increase innovation? Lower the cost of failure.

Like now what Urban Outfitters has become is very much how I always dressed in high school by going to garage sales and getting stuff for 50 cents. Cost a little more now, to look like crap.

There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness

When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.

We can't arrest and incarcerate addiction out of people. Not only do I think it's really inhumane, but it's ineffective and it cost us billions upon billions of dollars to keep doing this.

No one thinks of how much blood it costs.

The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.

Focus on all four of your net worth factors: increasing your income, increasing your savings, increasing your investment returns, and decreasing your cost of living by simplifying your lifestyle.

Just keep following your damn dreams, it just costs a lot of damn money. I'm broke, but I have a dream.

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.

I never confuse the cost of something with its value

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

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

The theory which follows is entirely based on a calculus of pleasure and pain; and the object of economics is to maximize happiness by purchasing pleasure, as it were, at the lowest cost of pain.

Fair words cost nothing.

If you say, I'm living in America and I have freedom of speech but I choose not to use it because it's going to cost me, well, you're not living in freedom. You're not free.

I plan on going so deep into the desert, that any failure of my equipment could cost me my life.

Last night we had three small zucchini for dinner that were grown within fifty feet of our back door. I estimate they cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $371.49 each.

Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give.

Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.

Despair is easy, or at least low cost.

My bank is the worst. They are screwing me. You know what they did to me? They're charging me money for not having enough money. Apparently, when you're broke, that costs money.

I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system.

By skimping on design, the owner gets costlier equipment, higher energy costs, and a less competitive and comfortable building; the tenants get lower productivity and higher rent and operating costs.

People in general are not interested in paying extra for increased safety. At the beginning seat belts cost $200 and nobody bought them.

The reason so many people do not pray is because of its cost. The cost is not so much in the sweat of agonizing supplication as in the daily fidelity to the life of prayer.

Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.

We know the costs of Europe. What are the benefits?

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.

Use the freest goods for happiness... The stars cost nothing. Nature costs nothing. Your inner life costs nothing. God costs nothing. And yet they are all infinitely precious.

We need a price on carbon that accurately reflects its real costs on our society and our wellbeing.

The 2012 Olympics is going to cost £8 billion which is a lot of money. It'll probably bankrupt London. But you can't put a price on two bronze medals in cycling.

If you crave something, I’ll be the one to give it to you. All of your needs, Eva, are mine to fulfill. Whatever it costs me.

The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.

There was a much more self-destructive nature in 'Appetite.' It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then.

Inside an organization there are only cost centers. The only profit center is a customer whose check has not bounced.

We've confused the cost of lifestyle with the cost of living. We've lost our perspective.

It turns out we get so much healthier when we convert to a green energy economy that our health savings alone are enough to pay for the cost of the energy transition.

The biggest cost of poor quality is when your customer buys it from someone else because they didn't like yours.

It would have cost me more trouble to escape from injustice, than it does to submit to it.

Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces.