Cost Cost Quotes

#1. Cost, cost, cost. Freedom costs. That's life.

Kata Mlek

#2. Your excellencies' wishes; only, I tell you beforehand, the carriage will cost you six piastres a day.

Alexandre Dumas

#3. Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity.

Charles Colson

#4. For the first time, Jacqueline heard Charisma sound less like an enthusiastic girl and more like a woman whose hard won maturity had cost her dearly

Christina Dodd

#5. When I started Biocon in 1978, the obstacles I needed to navigate were manifold - ranging from infrastructural hurdles to issues related to my credibility as a business woman. With no access to venture capital, money was scarce and high-cost, debt-based capital was all I had.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

#6. The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.

Bernie Sanders

#7. The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.

Mark Steyn

#8. In democratic countries as well as elsewhere most of the branches of productive industry are carried on at a small cost by men little removed by their wealth or education above the level of those whom they employ.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#9. Price and Cost. Sometimes we pay more. Sometimes we pay less. You've got to determine what you are willing to pay for success.

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#10. Assessment coordinators need to be knowledgeable about general higher education topics (e.g., student persistence, the cost of higher education, diversity, and student learning); they must also know how those play out at specific institutions.

Kimberly Yousey-Elsener

#11. At any cost, by any road means nothing self-chosen in the way God brings us to the goal.

Oswald Chambers

#12. Sustainability is no longer optional. Companies that fail to adopt such practices will perish. They will not only lose cost basis: they will also suffer in recruiting employees as well as attracting customers.

John Replogle

#13. Tie Society, a start-up in Washington, D.C., stocks more than 300 designer ties - each of which, if bought, would cost an arm and a leg. For a monthly fee of $11, subscribers receive a box of sanitized ties to use, and they can change their tie selection monthly.

Jeremy Rifkin

#14. I wondered if all creatures were drawn to what was dangerous or if we merely wanted light at any cost and were willing to burn for our desires.

Alice Hoffman

#15. I am marrying the finest man I have ever known." "It will cost you dear," he warns. "It would be worse to lose him.

Philippa Gregory

#16. The problem with opportunity cost is that opportunity cost is divided among many, many things.

Dan Ariely

#17. There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum.

Paul Hawken

#18. The costs can't be borne by smaller counties particularly, so if the crime occurs in a large county you might be charged with the death penalty, in a smaller county you're not. That raises some significant questions about fairness.

Greg Zoeller

#19. Dreams cost nothing. They are free. The hard part is just keeping them going.

Sylvester Stallone

#20. The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity.

Cesar Chavez

#21. It doesn't cost anything to be a good person, but yet there are toxic people around us that will try to tax our lives.

Ron Baratono

#22. Modesty is good. But not when it comes at the cost of honesty.

Kangana Ranaut

#23. The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets.

Sharon Salzberg

#24. The largest outbreak of bird flu in American history was an H5N2 virus, which led to the deaths of 17 million domestic birds and cost the nation more than $400 million during an outbreak in Pennsylvania that started in 1983.

Michael Greger

#25. Creativity is the work of your hands or the work of your tongue so you have to be careful what you say because it would cost you big time.

Euginia Herlihy

#26. Fools you are who say you like to learn from your mistakes. I prefer to learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid the cost of my own.

Otto Von Bismarck

#27. 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.

Henry Rollins

#28. I have learned that the cost of everything from a royal suite to a bottle of soda water can be halved by the simple expedient of saying it must be halved.

Robert Byron

#29. Indeed, one of the most frightening consequences of the Holocaust may well be that rather than serving as a warning to preserve humanity at all cost, it has provided a license to privilege physical survival over moral existence.

Omer Bartov

#30. Barge traffic on the Mississippi River represents the most efficient, most cost-effective, most environmentally sound means of transporting commodity goods from this region of the country to market.

Leonard Boswell

#31. We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.

Major Owens

#32. The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.

John Fowles

#33. Christianity has secured for itself a continuing place, at the cost of surrendering the crucial battle field.

Newbigin

#34. It's amazing how someone's IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them. The first month cost perhaps $200 more than if I had been micromanaging.

Timothy Ferriss

#35. I cannot blame them, in truth, for desiring ... But they were like children, who have only just begun to grasp the idea of a thing. And like children, they had no notion of laboring to create, but only of having ... and no thought given to the cost, to others, of taking it.

Jacqueline Carey

#36. This is Communism's view of war. War is necessary. War is an instrument for achieving a goal.

But unfortunately for Communism, this policy ran up against the American atomic bomb in 1945. Then the Communists changed their tactics and suddenly became advocates of peace at any cost.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#37. That's not true. You've given me something very precious indeed. Your trust, Eve. And I know what
that cost you ... A woman's trust is the most priceless gift she can give a man. Her belief in his ability to keep her safe and protect her from all harm.

Maya Banks

#38. Being young is an advantage. You've grown up with games as the dominant entertainment. You have a lot of experience of video games. So what do you want to see that's not been done? Innovation is really low cost for you. You can afford to take risks and fail to execute new ideas.

Kim Swift

#39. She was just kind and genuine. Pure, even. I hated that her good heartedness and naivety were going to cost her so dearly because I was going to bust up her marriage and take her husband if it were the last thing I did.

Rhonda McKnight

#40. She'd felt like being nice cost her something, even if it was just feeling a little bit lesser, every time she smiled without meaning to.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#41. His clothes looked as if they had cost a great deal of money and had been slept in. (Guns at Cyrano's)

Raymond Chandler

#42. The classic business story is much like the classic human story. There is rise and fall; the overcoming of great odds, the upholding of principles despite the cost, questions of rivalry and succession, and even the possibility of descent into madness.

Mark Helprin

#43. take unorthodox ideas seriously today, and the mainstream sees that as a sign of progress. We can be glad that there are fewer crazy cults now, yet that gain has come at great cost: we have given up our sense of wonder at secrets left to be discovered.

Peter Thiel

#44. Bithia seemed wise in the ways of the world, but she was completely ignorant of what she brought upon herself. Commerce with the powers of darkness might gain her what she desired for the moment, but at what cost in the end?

Francine Rivers

#45. Force when aggressively applied is "violence" and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate cause, it has its moral justification. The elimination of force at all costs in Utopian..

Bhagat Singh

#46. We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.

H. Rider Haggard

#47. We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#48. It was the waiting and watching that cost the most. For during that time he had to endure.

Orson Scott Card

#49. What is the cost of replacing and bringing up to speed one of your managers, supervisors, or front-line employees who left because they were frustrated with your organization's leadership?

Liz Weber

#50. Mammoth organizations, these ponderous processes. Many people don't realize that the nuclear capability that this country [USA] amassed and maintained over the period of the Cold War cost $6 trillion .

George Lee Butler

#51. A technical insight is a new way of applying technology or design that either drives down the cost or increases the functions and usability of the product by a significant factor.

Eric Schmidt

#52. At a European auto show, I had someone from a German car company come up to me and say the Karma should cost $125,000, not $87,900, but our development process lets us lower the costs. I guarantee it's profitable.

Henrik Fisker

#53. The cost of the high-cost economy remains too high.

Paul Wolfowitz

#54. The cost of praising someone is nil - but every psychological study shows the payoff is huge.

Harvey MacKay

#55. The cost of anything is what you are prepared to do to obtain it.

Steven Redhead

#56. A real apology cost something, because you had to stand there like an idiot and say it out loud for the world to hear - I'M SORRY. And the world, as always, would respond with a resounding, 'Yes. Yes, you are.

David Arnold

#57. If evolution is a struggle for survival, why hasn't it ruthlessly eliminated altruists, who seem to increase another's prospects of survival at the cost of their own?

Peter Singer

#58. But nothing's really free, is it? People always make you pay one way or another.

Jane Lotter

#59. In every dream, there lays a cost to be paid. The potency and relevance of your ideas will determine the cost to be paid!

Israelmore Ayivor

#60. To be a disciple of Jesus means to learn from Him, to follow Him. The cost may be high.

Billy Graham

#61. Yes. Knock and it shall be opened to you. The gift of wisdom can be found, if one wishes to search for it, and is willing to be altered by it. It is not a gift given without cost or transformation, nor one to be used lightly.

Faith Hunter

#62. He who serves God with what costs him nothing, will do very little service, you may depend on it.

Susan Warner

#63. What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#64. This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned at a bitter cost and then - it has to be lived with. For freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#65. Information wants to be free,because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.

Stewart Brand

#66. It puts the provider in a situation of looking for ways to have someone else pick up a piece of the cost. As a result, every customer who has insurance ends up paying a 'hidden premium.' It simply adds to the health care cost burden.

Dave Obey

#67. There has always been a certain romanticism associated with the airline business. We must avoid its perpetuation at Eastern at all costs.

Frank Borman

#68. People do dollar cost averaging because they have regret of making one big mistake. But the fact of the matter is that, mathematically, the market rises more of the time than it falls. It falls, but it rises more of the time than it falls.

Kenneth Fisher

#69. You do realize that the cost of that bracelet is within spitting distance of my going rate as an assassin, right?"
"You mean your going rate back when you were actually killing people for money," Finn said. "Or as I like to call them - the good ole days.

Jennifer Estep

#70. The image of the scientist who puts the pursuit of truth before anything else has been shattered and replaced by a man on the make or a quasi-religious enthusiast who wants to prove his case at any cost. Science is becoming the tool of campaigning warfare, in which truth is the first casualty.

Paul Johnson

#71. More important by far is that one be honest with oneself. I have always been, and it has cost me dearly. Nothing matters but the truth. I have dedicated my life to the pursuit of it, no matter where it hides. That is the heart of science, Will Henry, the true monster we pursue.

Rick Yancey

#72. Stop giving your gift to those who want to use you for the development of their legacy, at the cost of yours.

Steve Harvey

#73. Last year, Americans spent $450 billion on Christmas. Clean water for the whole world, including every poor person on the planet would cost about $20 billion. Let's just call that what it is: A material blasphemy of the Christmas season.

Jim Wallis

#74. What would happen if you allowed a bug to slip through a module, and it cost
your company $10,000? The nonprofessional would shrug his shoulders, say
"stuff happens," and start writing the next module. The professional would
write the company a check for $10,000!

Robert C. Martin

#75. You can be patriotic and still believe that some things cost more than what they're worth. Ask

Cormac McCarthy

#76. Money is not the only commodity that is fun to give. We can give time, we can give our expertise, we can give our love or simply give a smile. What does that cost? The point is, none of us can ever run out of something worthwhile to give.

Steve Goodier

#77. The cost in terms of liberties lost and the unnecessary exposure to terrorism are difficult to determine, but in time it will become apparent to all of us that foreign interventionism is of no benefit to American citizens, but is instead a threat to our liberties.

Ron Paul

#78. Ignorance of the facts of life gave me my beloved son, Dickon, but at what cost to both him and me, I cannot hazard a guess.

Kate O'Mara

#79. They looked like two apes pounding their chest and asking for a banana. The thing about me - I was not so willing to give just anyone my fucking banana. Every benefit should outweigh the cost.

Krista Ritchie

#80. Imports remain a concern with the currency holding at $US0.75 cents and cost pressures persist, in particular for power and transport.

Christofer Drew

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

Jay Leno

#82. I started off writing kind of big summer, blockbustery kinds of movies, but at that time, I had no name, nobody knew who I was, and somebody told me I can't write movies that are going to cost $100 million to make and expect someone to buy them; it was just impractical.

David Leslie Johnson

#83. I love it when you can bring really great design and simple capability to something that doesn't cost much," he said as he pointed out the clean elegance of the houses. "It was the original vision for Apple. That's what we tried to do with the first Mac. That's what we did with the iPod.

Walter Isaacson

#84. Before I met Mr. Shoaff, I used to ask, "How much does it cost?" But he taught me to ask, "What is it worth?" When I started to base my life on value instead of price, all kinds of things began to happen.

Jim Rohn

#85. The price starts at $375, half the cost of the iPhone 6 in China.

Anonymous

#86. It costs us so little to go vegan. It costs animals so much if we don't.

Gary L. Francione

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

Thorstein Veblen

#88. Big success requires big sacrifices. Don't find out later that the cost was too high. Denial is said to be even more potent than cocaine; neither drug enhances your marketability.

K Callan

#89. Either way, it will cost you. You will for pay for your education or pay for your ignorance.

Kathy McClary

#90. No matter how high the powers of reason, no matter how deep the intellect, no one can discover God's secret messages without paying the cost of true discipleship.

Winkie Pratney

#91. Witches, wolves, and moral friend There is horror that does not end War is waged and battles fought But have you stopped to count the cost? We are the ones backed by right We must strike with bold and might The cursed ones blamless be Warm them of the Hunters you see

Nancy Holder

#92. It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.

Moliere

#93. Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior.

B. J. Fogg

#94. Obamacare has got everyone on edge. I mean, small business - men and women or big business are sitting out there saying we have no idea what this is going to cost, but we know it's going to cost us and cost us a lot.

Rick Perry

#95. The idea that the GLC should be abolished at a stroke is ill though out, undemocratic and will cost the people of London dear.

Ken Livingstone

#96. Speak what I want, I don't care what y'all feel. 'Cause I'm my own master, my Pop told me be your own boss. Keep integrity at every cost,

Nas

#97. If you were to gather all the minutes wasted on insignificant, immaterial yik yak spent throughout the day and add them up, how much misspent time do you think you'd have? One hour? Two hours? Consider the sunk cost on that. It's unacceptable. One minute wasted is one minute too much.

Ari Gold

#98. It does not cost the world to save the planet,

Ottmar Edenhofer

#99. Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#100. Older people are not going to evaporate from the face of the Earth for two years. They're going to have medical need and they're going to have to be attended to. And the earlier intervention for it, the less the cost will be and the better the quality of life.

Nancy Pelosi