Cost Benefit Analysis Quotes

• Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run.

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Nature, Long

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth”, p.180, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law

  Fred Thompson

  Believe, Law, Agency

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• Now in business we do a cost benefit analysis before we make policy changes. Washington should as well.

  Vicky Hartzler

  Benefits, Should, Wells

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• Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the industry finance those

  John Warren Kindt

  Impact, Gambling, Needs

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• There are certain pressures and things that change your life to a degree that, in the cost benefit analysis that constantly goes on, sometimes makes you think, 'Maybe I should just leave.

  David Schwimmer

  Thinking, Make You Think, Degrees

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• The Internet is the first technology since the printing press which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing so, make that cost-benefit analysis much easier for most students. It could allow American schools to service twice as many students as they do now, and in ways that are both effective and cost-effective.

  John Katzman

  School, Technology, Benefits

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• [The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored.

  Antonin Scalia

  Taj Mahal, Doctrine, Benefits

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