Cost Quotes - Page 34

• The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.

  William Carlos Williams

  Business, Stress, Writing

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.188, New Directions Publishing

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• Love is not always doing what brings pleasure; love is also doing what is good for someone, whatever the cost at the moment. sometimes, it's leaving... for awhile - and the love is shown, then, in the pain given. For pain is a lesson best learned from the one who loves you the most.

  Linda Goodman

  Uplifting, Pain, Love You

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• What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Player, Games, Chess Game

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• They brought on someone who cost more than our stadium.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Football, Stadiums

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• I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.

  Diogenes

  Wine, Drunk, Vineyards

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• History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world have a chance for it.

  Walter Bagehot

  Men, Wrecks, Littles

  Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.61

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• This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret or open. The only diplomacy it admits of is the statement and pursuance of truth at any cost.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Secret, Politics, Campaigns

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• I don't know if the question is whether you believe in capital punishment anymore. I think the greater question is its effectiveness and given the choices we face in California, should we have a merit-based discussion on its effectiveness and costs?

  Tani Cantil-Sakauye

  Believe, Thinking, Punishment

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• To top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution than it does to have full life imprisonment without parole.

  Ralph Nader

  Doe, Execution, Death Penalty

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• The costs can't be borne by smaller counties particularly, so if the crime occurs in a large county you might be charged with the death penalty, in a smaller county you're not. That raises some significant questions about fairness.

  Greg Zoeller

  Might, Fairness, Death Penalty

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• They sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable. Never again could it be cleansed; it would prove that man, the human species - we, in short - had the potential to construct an enormity of pain, and that pain is the only force created from nothing, without cost and without effort. It is enough not to see, not to listen, not to act.

  Primo Levi

  Pain, Men, Effort

  Primo Levi (2017). “The Drowned and the Saved”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• I was a supporter and believer in the death penalty, but I've begun to see that this system doesn't work and it isn't functional. It costs an obscene amount of money.

  Gil Garcetti

  Death Penalty, Law Enforcement, Penalties

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• The cost of taxpayer compliance with [the tax code] is over $80 billion per year, more than eight times the cost of the IRS budget

  Charles O. Rossotti

  Eight, Years, Irs

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• The engineer who counts cost as nothing as compared to the result, who holds himself above the consideration of dollars and cents, has missed his vocation.

  Coleman Sellers II

  Dollars, Economics, Consideration

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• What really happens is that the gene pool becomes filled with genes that influence bodies in such a way that they behave 'as if' they made complex, if unconscious, cost/benefit calculations

  Richard Dawkins

  Benefits, Body, Way

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• Cost is always an object - the second law of thermodynamics sees to that

  Daniel Dennett

  Law, Economics, Thermodynamics

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• There is economics in biology, nothing is free, everything has to be paid for, there are costs as well as benefits to everything in life, for example, there was never sufficient natural selection pressure to develop better eyes, individuals could earn other things like smiley smiles rather than waste energy & time on better eyes.

  Richard Dawkins

  Eye, Energy, Example

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• Our goal is long-term growth in revenue and absolute profit - so we invest aggressively in future innovation while tightly managing our short-term costs.

  Larry Page

  Long, Goal, Innovation

  "Larry Page Just Put Out A Big Manifesto - Read The Full Thing Here" by Matt Lynley, www.businessinsider.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Governments do not necessarily act in the national interest, especially when making detailed microeconomic interventions. Instead, they are influenced by interest group pressures. The kinds of interventions that new trade theory suggests can raise national income will typically raise the welfare of small, fortunate groups by large amounts, while imposing costs on larger, more diffuse groups.

  Paul Krugman

  Philosophy, Government, Political

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• Government should be good for the liberty of the governed, and that is when it governs to the least possible degree. It should be good for the wealth of the nation, and that is when it acts as little as possible upon the labor that produces it and when it consumes as little as possible. It should be good for the public security, and that is when it protects as much as possible, provided that the protection does not cost more than it brings in.... It is in losing their powers of action that governments improve. Each time that the governed gain space there is progress.

  Augustin Thierry

  Philosophy, Government, Space

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• In my judgment, we have to avoid, at all costs, tax increases. That would be the worst possible thing to do and will make a bad economy even worse. Beyond that, targeted tax relief should be expanded upon.

  Meg Whitman

  Relief, Would Be, Judgment

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• In this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.

  Bob Taft

  Jobs, Connections, Safe

  "The Jobs Agenda". Bob Taft's State of the State Address, 2004.

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• Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost much, but believing that a dangerous predator is the wind may cost an animal its life.

  Michael Shermer

  Believe, Animal, Wind

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• Suppose you had a small electrical fire and... a structural engineer [looked] at your home's wiring [and] reports that the wiring is "shot" and there is a 50% chance that your house would burn down in the next few years unless you replace all the wiring. The job will cost $20,000... so you get an independent assessment. The next engineer agrees with the first warning. You can either continue to shop for additional evaluations until you find the one engineer in 1,000 that is willing to give you the answer you want, "Your family is not in danger" or you can change the wiring.

  Steven Chu

  Jobs, Home, Independent

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• In the quest for comparative advantage, investment will flow towards those countries that can offer more output for fewer emissions. Inaction will cost jobs. Action will support jobs.

  Julia Gillard

  Country, Jobs, Support

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