Cost Quotes

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

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?

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.

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.

Design adds value faster than it adds cost.

Peace purchased at the cost of any part of our national integrity is fit only for slaves, and even when purchased for such a price it is a delusion, for it cannot last.

When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.

A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection.

There are two kinds of marketing: expensive and inexpensive. Expensive marketing is the kind that doesn't work. Inexpensive marketing is the kind that works—regardless of cost.

If testing costs more than not testing, then don't test.

One unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.

Freedom costs you a great deal.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

There's hope. It doesn't cost a thing to smile. You don't have to pay to laugh. You better thank God for that.

Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous; teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost.

Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

By electrifying our lives, we reduce our energy costs by 39 percent, which is a huge savings in itself.

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

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

If you look up into His face and say, "Yes, Lord, whatever it costs," at that moment He'll flood your Life with His presence and power.

Nothing whatsoever is worth the cost of a contracted heart.

If we mean to support the liberty and independence which has cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must drive far away the demon of party spirit and local reproach.

If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray.

The product is the delivery of the largest number of people at the least cost.

Honesty doesn't always pay, but dishonesty always costs.

Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost much, but believing that a dangerous predator is the wind may cost an animal its life.

Traditionally, Medicare's assurance has been that for the elderly and persons with disabilities that they will not be alone when confronted with the full burden of their health care costs.

Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.

Be sure that you are well compensated for illiquidity - especially illiquidity without control - because it can create particularly high opportunity costs.

A hotel mini bar allows you to see what a can of Pepsi will cost in twenty years.

Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals.

Tea Party has now cost the Republicans 5 senate seats. My next donation is going to them.

Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works.

Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only one day, of modern warfare.

In real estate, many investors love triple net leases. With NNN's investors receive income without the expenses of taxes, repairs and insurance. The tenant covers these costs.

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

Why is electricity so expensive these days? Why does it cost so much for something I can make with a balloon and my hair?

One of the reasons people perish without a vision is that they cannot endure the pain and cost required to achieve any worthwhile purpose.

Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs

We are taking a greater chance of having another crash at a time when the world is less capable of bearing the cost.

A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.

The notion that college education is a cost-effective way to help poor, low-skill, unmarried mothers with high school diplomas or GEDs move up the economic ladder is just wrong.

The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.