Cost Quotes - Page 27

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

  Dennis Miller

  Hair, Doe, Balloons

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• What's great in the modern world is that it's becoming easier and easier for people to create without having access to large sums of money. They need access to certain technologies, but the cost is far less than it used to be.

  Helen Mirren

  Technology, People, Becoming

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• You know, if you love something, you should love it regardless of whether it costs five dollars or 500 or 5,000 dollars. Unfortunately, that's not the way our culture works, and we do collectively buy into this idea that things that are more expensive probably have more value.

  Moby

  Ideas, Dollars, Culture

  "Is Moby's Music Still Good When Its Free?". "Day to Day" with Alex Chadwick, www.npr.org. March 31, 2008.

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• If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

  Alan Moore

  Writing, Good Day, Emotional

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• People of my age who went to college, go into college, you know what it cost back then? Nothing or next to nothing. At the most, you had to work at Dairy Queen during the summer and that would pay for your college education.

  Michael Moore

  Summer, Queens, College

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• Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

  Hannah More

  Forgiveness, Heartbroken, Anger

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.639

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• If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.

  J. P. Morgan

  Life, Success, Business

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

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• I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.

  Alanis Morissette

  Children, Eye, Thinking

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• The hardware business is all about per-unit manufacturing cost and functionality. The services business is less asset-intensive and more dependent on people.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  People, Assets, Hardware

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• Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems.

  Timothy Murphy

  Country, Doors, Drug

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• If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

  Elon Musk

  Space, Transportation, Great Things

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

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• You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.

  Elon Musk

  Needs, Fuel, Matter

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

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• It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will.

  Elon Musk

  America, Energy, Three

  "Elon Musk: Triumph of His Will". Interview with Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2012.

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• The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.

  Elon Musk

  Reality, Oil, Uranium Mining

  "Elon Musk: Refining Gas Uses More Electricity Than Electric Cars". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. October 26, 2011.

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• Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're in the transaction business. They're wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Powerful, Creating, Done

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• The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel a million miles an hour, it would be shrunken down in size, and a trip to New York would cost about five dollars. Those enormous changes just aren't part of our everyday experience.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  New York, Law, Everyday

  "The Physicist". Interview with Stewart Brand, www.wired.com. September 1, 2005.

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• Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.

  Janet Napolitano

  Smart, Skills, Looks

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• The number of electrical injuries cared for in hospitals in the US is estimated at as many as 50,000; the cost of these injuries on the US economy is estimated at over one billion dollars per year.

  Richard Neal

  Years, Numbers, Dollars

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• A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Peace, War, Sea

  1959 In the NewYork Times, 24May.

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• All businesses require capital, management and labor, and business executives, wanting to grow and maintain profitable enterprises, have a strong incentive to keep costs, including labor, as low as possible.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Strong, Incentives, Management

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• And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Goal, Progress

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• But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.

  Barack Obama

  Health, People, Care

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• So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

  Barack Obama

  Military, America, Action

  Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on Libya, National Defense University, Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 28, 2011.

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• Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don't cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That's going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.

  Michelle Obama

  Hurt, Kids, Small Changes

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• There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost; there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic.

  Susan Orlean

  Beautiful, Animal, People

  "Wild Animals Don’t Want to be Owned" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 20, 2011.

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