Cost Quotes - Page 12

• Diverse groups of countries can do a lot by trading amongst themselves, exploiting differences in costs, resources, and technologies.

  Daniel Altman

  Country, Technology, Differences

  "Why the WTO Is Obsolete". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• It doesn't cost anything to say hi when you pass someone else in the hallway, whereas, most corporations if you pass you avoid eye contact.

  Tony Hsieh

  Eye, Corporations, Hallways

  Interview with Peter Hopkins, bigthink.com. September 24, 2010.

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• When you have a transportation system that the price of propellant is essentially negligible something is very wrong. If you look at any other transportation system, a car, a motorcycle, a train, an oil tanker, an airliner, you name it; about a quarter to a third of the operating cost is buying the propellant.

  Burt Rutan

  Names, Oil, Car

  Source: bigthink.com

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• In the world of computers and just devices in general, the lifespan, or the shelf life, is relatively short just because technology moves so fast and the costs drop so quickly and the power, whether it's computing power or memory rises very, very quickly.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Memories, Moving, Technology

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Traditionally women have been more reticent to acknowledge their ambition and to say it with pride. So I like having people who work for us who are ambitious, engaged, respectful. Mis-hiring is a huge mistake. It's a tremendous opportunity cost throwing the position to the wrong person.

  Ivanka Trump

  Mistake, Ambition, Pride

  "Ivanka Trump describes her life as the daughter of a potential US president, running the Trump empire, and building her own brand". Interview With Rachel Gillett, uk.businessinsider.com. March 17, 2016.

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• The Freebie cost virtually nothing. We funded the movie ourselves, people got paid, but were mostly paid in the back end, we used one of the cheaper cameras we could get. The movies have a look to them, you can sorta point out the really low-budget movie. So even if the heart of the movie and the story are really, really great, they always sorta feel a little cheap.

  Katie Aselton

  Heart, People, Stories

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I know a lot of people in Washington would say, well, you know, indigent people can't manage their health savings account. They're too stupid. But they're not too stupid. Somebody has a diabetic foot ulcer, they learn very quickly not to go the emergency room where it costs five times more to take care of it. They go to the clinic.

  Benjamin Carson

  Stupid, Feet, People

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I'm not Vegas. Places I play usually cost like $3 to get in, you know, and people are going: Gee, I've got $3, I think I'll throw it away.

  Steve Martin

  Thinking, Vegas, Play

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• What would have happened if Derrick Rose had torn his knee in college, or Greg Oden? It would have cost them millions of dollars. They were lucky, coming out early. I'm not saying don't go to college. There are plenty of players like Shaq [O'Neal] who went back and graduated. I commend that. But do it at your leisure - don't hurt your finances.

  Sonny Vaccaro

  Hurt, Player, College

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Real benefits come when managers begin to understand the profound difference between 'cost cutting' and 'eliminating the causes of costs'

  Brian L. Joiner

  Business, Real, Cutting

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• The thing that goes the farthest
  towards making life worth while,
  That costs the least, and does the most,
  is just a pleasant smile.

  Wilbur D. Nesbit

  Happiness, Smile, Doe

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• It is like using a smoke screen, the same thing for an individual. The topic here is Islam. If French politicians are no longer talking about Islam, they know they will have to talk about something else, which brings the spotlight on their inefficiency. They will have to talk about domestic social and economic issues and they will have to justify their foreign policy, which is obviously something they need to avoid at all costs.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Issues, Talking, Islam

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• I try not to be protected. Because I feel like you can become a little bit of a robot. That's not who I am. And I don't want to be monotone. It's important to be yourself, whatever the cost.

  Serena Williams

  Being Yourself, Who I Am, Important

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• If you have a regulation that's going to save hundreds of thousands of lives annually and not cost very much, that sounds like a very good idea.

  Cass Sunstein

  Ideas, Sound, Regulation

  "Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 2, 2016.

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• Citizen journalism is rapidly emerging as an invaluable part of delivering the news. With the expansion of the Web and the ever-decreasing size and cost of camera phones and video cameras, the ability to commit acts of journalism is spreading to everyone.

  Arianna Huffington

  Phones, Cameras, Expansion

  "Katie Couric, Tavis Smiley, Bob Woodward, Nicholas Kristof, and I Hit YouTube with Pointers for Citizen Journalists" by Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2009.

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• I should say the leadership's proposal in the Senate and the House are very unpopular. And when people realize it will raise taxes, raise their insurance premiums cost and explode the deficit, they think twice about it.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Thinking, People, House

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I heard Zen teacher one time talking about abortion, and he was saying the way that abortion makes bad karma is any time the person involved pretends that there's not a cost to the choice, one way or the other; whether you get it or don't get it, there's a cost. That's just basic responsibility, to admit that there's a cost. And the bad karma is when you pretend that the thing is free.

  George Saunders

  Karma, Teacher, Responsibility

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That's why my attitude, even on my larger-scale movies, is to make them cheap. The less these things cost, the better for everybody.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Attitude, My Attitude, Scales

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you want a cow to be not just a cow but a milk machine, you can do a very good job at that by creating new hormones like the Bovine Growth Hormone. It might make the cow very ill, it might turn it into a drug addict, and it might even create consumer scares about the health and safety aspects of the milk. But we've gotten so used to manipulating objects and organisms and ecosystems for a single objective that we ignore the costs involved. I call this the "monoculture of the mind."

  Vandana Shiva

  Jobs, Ecosystems, Growth Hormones

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• You have to be 100% sure [about brexit] because there's no going back on Friday morning and your decision could cost someone else their job.

  Ruth Davidson

  Friday, Morning, Jobs

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• Even Boris Johnson doesn't think there's going to be a United States of Europe. ​And I think there's a real question here that you're being asked to make a decision that's irreversible we cant change it, we wake up on Friday and we don't like it, and we're being sold it on a lie because they lied about the cost of Europe, they lied about Turkey's entrance to Europe, they lied about the European army because we've got a veto for that they put that in their leaflets and they've lied about this here tonight too and its not good enough you deserve the truth you deserve the truth.

  Ruth Davidson

  Friday, Real, Lying

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• When workers make more money, they respond by being more productive in their jobs and are less likely to leave, reducing turnover costs. This puts money in business' pockets, and workers also then have more money to spend in the local economy.

  David Rolf

  Jobs, Pockets, Economy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The current fast food that we have is inexpensive when you buy it, but the long-term costs of eating it and the long-term costs to society, are much too high. This cheap food, when you add up all the total costs, is much too expensive.

  Eric Schlosser

  Long, Add, Eating

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I very much enjoy my freedom creatively but I also would love to make one of those big Hollywood films that costs a lot of money and has a lot of people running around with cell phones and all that insanity.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Running, Phones, Cells

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• If you are dealing with life from a low-level sensibility, the Internet can be a tool for manifesting that. But if you're dealing with life from the highest sensibility, it can also be your tool for manifesting that. The simple reason is that it doesn't cost money.

  Marianne Williamson

  Simple, Tools, Levels

  Source: scottlondon.com

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