Cost Quotes - Page 24

• Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

  Thomas Fuller

  Compliments You, Pay, Dear

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

  Carlos Ghosn

  Best Practices, Reduction, Synergy

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• The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Interesting, Information, Competitors

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• As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American.

  Paul Gillmor

  Hurt, Years, Oil

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• Among the many important provisions in the energy bill are the creation of an estimated half million new jobs, increased oil production, blackout protection, controlling fertilizer costs by stabilizing natural gas prices and enacting new efficiency benchmarks.

  Paul Gillmor

  Jobs, Oil, Important

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• We don't we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point?

  Newt Gingrich

  Starting Over, Reform, Would Be

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• An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job.

  Newt Gingrich

  Senior, Jobs, Cost Of Living

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• I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Jobs, Truth

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• I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Jobs, Truth, Want

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• Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Hell, Caustic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Environmental, Energy

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• To oblige people often costs little and helps much.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Littles, Helping, Persons

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom".

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• I am divorced, and one of the things I am tremendously grateful for is that my ex-husband and I made a decision to go through mediation. I knew a trial would drag on for years, would cost me everything, but worse, would be devastating for our four small children.

  Jane Green

  Children, Husband, Grateful

  "Christie Brinkley: Not My American Sweetheart" by Jane Green, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2008.

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• 'Twilight' has ruined me. When this is all over, flying internationally is going to be very hard for me. It is just not worth it to buy a first-class ticket, because of the cost.

  Ashley Greene

  Twilight, Class, Flying

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• Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.

  John Grisham

  Couple, Years, Guy

  "Bill Moyers talks with John Grisham". "Bill Moyers Journal" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. January 25, 2008.

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• Whiskey's to tough, Champagne costs too much, Vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain, Will help me explain, As a matter of fact, I like beer.

  Tom T. Hall

  Beer, Matter, Too Much

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• It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.

  Gary Hamel

  Educational, Ecosystems, What Matters

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• As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.

  Stephen Harper

  Unity, Bilingualism, Fairness

  Debates (Hansard) No.155 - House of Commons of Canada, www.ourcommons.ca. May 16, 2007.

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• Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

  Lillian Hellman

  Writing, Guilty, Dramatic

  Lillian Hellman, Jackson R. Bryer (1986). “Conversations with Lillian Hellman”, p.70, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

  Arthur Helps

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

  Patrick Henry

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

  Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention

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• Good words are worth much, and cost little.

  George Herbert

  Encouragement, Positivity, Cheerful

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey (1853). “The poetical works of George Herbert: With life, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes”, p.297, [s.n.]

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• We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, "What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?"

  James Hillman

  Children, Kids, Doctors

  "On Soul, Character and Calling: A Conversation with James Hillman". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com. March 1998.

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• A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.

  Damien Hirst

  Painting, Increase, Shocking

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• I would like to propose slow cycling. Commute by bike. At a stroke, you remove the need for and absurd cost of public transport. Cycling is almost completely free. There is no longer any need for the gym as you get fit by cycling. And you can go at your own pace.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Cycling, Needs, Pace

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2006.

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