Cost Quotes

• Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

  Blaise Pascal

  Kindness, Character, Accomplish Nothing

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• You seldom improve quality by cutting costs, but you can often cut costs by improving quality.

  Karl Albrecht

  Cutting, Quality, Improving

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• Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Business, Decision, Watches

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• The next time you face a challenge, remember that the cost of success is far cheaper than the price of failure.

  Tsem Tulku

  Buddhist, Inspiration, Challenges

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• Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten.

  Aldo Gucci

  Fashion, Shopping, Long

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• Count the cost first. Don’t pay too big a price for pursuing minor values.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Entrepreneur, Priorities

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 19, 2016

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• The cost of quality is the expense of doing things wrong.

  Phil Crosby

  Quality, Expenses

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• The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Memorial Day

  John Brown ch. 13 (1909)

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• When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.

  Steven Levitt

  People, Pay

  Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (2014). “Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Good work ain't cheap, cheap work ain't good.

  Sailor Jerry

  Tattoo, Work, Inexpensive

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• The reason many people fail is not for lack of vision but for lack of resolve and resolve is born out of counting the cost.

  Robert H. Goddard

  People, Vision, Failing

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• The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

  William Arthur Ward

  Leadership, Basketball, Motivation

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.

  Michael Gerber

  People, Matter, Determined

  Michael E. Gerber (2009). “The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Long, Turns

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• We need to regularly stop and take stock; to sit down and determine within ourselves which things are worth valuing and which things are not; which risks are worth the cost and which are not. Even the most confusing or hurtful aspects of life can be made more tolerable by clear seeing and by choice.

  Epictetus

  Gratitude, Choices, Risk

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• The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.

  Stephen King

  Wise, Dream, Children

  Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.449, Anchor

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• The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Encounters, World

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Much Ado About Nothing”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• It doesn't cost anything more to be nice.

  Angelo Dundee

  Nice, Being Nice

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• True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

  Arthur Ashe

  Memorial Day, Courage, Hero

  "Worth Repeating: More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes" by Bob Kelly, p. 169, 2003.

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• A sympathizer is a fellow that's for you as long as it doesn't cost anything.

  Kin Hubbard

  Sympathy, Long, Fellows

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• It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them.

  Thomas F. Wilson

  Revenge, Bears, Injury

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• The heart of salvation is the Cross of Christ. The reason salvation is so easy to obtain is that it cost God so much. The Cross was the place where God and sinful man merged with a tremendous collision and where the way to life was opened. But all the cost and pain of the collision was absorbed by the heart of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Pain, Heart, Men

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.213, Discovery House

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• Anything that just costs money is cheap.

  John Steinbeck

  Money

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• Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

  William J. Clinton

  Money, Freedom, War

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• We're going to do everything we can to make sure workers are treated like assets, not costs.

  Hillary Clinton

  Assets, Workers, Treated

  Hillary Clinton's Remarks From a Rally in Toledo, Ohio, time.com. October 3, 2016.

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