Cost Quotes - Page 38

• How much is your sin going to cost me?

  Ted Haggard

  Sin

  Ted Haggard (2006). “Your Primary Purpose”

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• The notion that college education is a cost-effective way to help poor, low-skill, unmarried mothers with high school diplomas or GEDs move up the economic ladder is just wrong.

  Rick Santorum

  Mother, Moving, School

  Rick Santorum (2014). “It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good”, p.122, Open Road Media

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• I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Acting, Routes

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

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• People with the boat bug are never happier than when they are poking around marinas, fantasizing about owning other people's boats. It's a disease that costs more to cure than any other single common learning disability.

  Randy Wayne

  Sea, People, Bugs

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• The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.

  Carl Sagan

  Running, Dream, Self Esteem

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.464, Ballantine Books

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• These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught up in a powerful emotion -- wonder, fear, greed, grief. Credulous acceptance of baloney can cost you money; that's what P. T. Barnum meant when he said, 'There's a sucker born every minute.' But it can be much more dangerous than that, and when governments and societies lose the capacity for critical thinking, the results can be catastrophic -- however sympathetic we may be to those who have bought the baloney.

  Carl Sagan

  Powerful, Grief, Acceptance

  Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.209, Ballantine Books

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• Today, your cell phone has more computer power than all of NASA back in 1969, when it placed two astronauts on the moon. Video games, which consume enormous amounts of computer power to simulate 3-D situations, use more computer power than mainframe computers of the previous decade. The Sony PlayStation of today, which costs $300, has the power of a military supercomputer of 1997, which cost millions of dollars.

  Michio Kaku

  Military, Moon, Phones

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• You can't be free if the cost of being you is too high.

  Hill Harper

  Ifs

  Hill Harper (2011). “The Wealth Cure: Putting Money in Its Place”, p.41, Penguin

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• Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code to incomprehensible data layouts, the results of obsessing about speed or memory or disk usage at the expense of transparency and simplicity are everywhere. They spawn innumerable bugs and cost millions of man-hours - often, just to get marginal gains in the use of some resource much less expensive than debugging time

  Eric S. Raymond

  Memories, Men, Errors

  Eric S. Raymond (2003). “The Art of UNIX Programming”, p.23, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Art, Making Money, Said

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• I always try and mix High Street finds into my looks. It really doesn't matter how much something costs, it's the way you wear it! Fashion is about self expression, having fun, and occasionally being a little disposable. I really enjoy lots of stores that are found at local shopping malls. French Connection, Zara, and Topshop always interpret the fashions direct from the catwalk at affordable prices. This playsuit from Hoss Intropia is delicate, super sexy, and has a lingerie feel. I'd throw on a super soft, chunky cardigan and a pair of flat gladiator sandals.

  Cat Deeley

  Sexy, Fashion, Fun

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• Spain has been massively diverting capital from the private sector into politically favored environmental projects for the better part of a decade...every green job created, eliminated 2.2 real jobs and cost around $800,000 each!

  Ron Paul

  Jobs, Real, Environmental

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• When I build something for somebody, I always add $50 million or $60 million onto the price. My guys come in, they say it's going to cost $75 million. I say it's going to cost $125 million, and I build it for $100 million. Basically, I did a lousy job. But they think I did a great job.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Thinking, Guy

  "Inside Trump's Head". www.forbes.at. November 14, 2017.

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• Please stop assuming that longevity and perfect health is always the correct option. No. Sometimes fun costs ya. It just does, you know? And that's OK, you're willing to make that purchase. Sammy Davis, Jr. was 64 when he died. Give me 64 Sammy-years, I'll be happy.

  Bill Maher

  Fun, Years, Perfect

  "Bill Maher: Be More Cynical". Comedy, 2000.

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• Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now do the stigmatizing work once done by colored-only water fountains and legally segregated schools. With dazzling candor, Alexander argues that we all pay the cost of the new Jim Crow.

  Lani Guinier

  Book, School, Loss

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• The cost of health care and the cost of cars and fuel are huge burdens on families and businesses. We can reduce health care costs NOW by promoting biking, walking and transit.

  Steve Novick

  Car, Fuel, Burden

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• Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures.

  Chaka Fattah

  Children, Debt, Pay

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• Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works.

  Peter Shumlin

  Design, Care, Containment

  "Gov. Peter Shumlin: The man who'd bring single-payer health care to Vermont". Interview with Ezra Klein, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 10, 2011.

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• Cost is more important than quality but quality is the best way to reduce cost.

  Genichi Taguchi

  Quality, Important, Way

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• There’s an opportunity cost to everything.

  Julie B. Beck

  Opportunity, Opportunity Cost

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• Frugality, quite simply, is about choosing the things you love enough to spend extravagantly on—and then cutting costs mercilessly on the things you don’t love.

  Ramit Sethi

  Cutting, Enough, Things You Love

  Ramit Sethi (2009). “I Will Teach You To Be Rich”, p.97, Workman Publishing

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• You cannot have your news instantly and have it done well. You cannot have your news reduced to 140 characters or less without losing large parts of it. You cannot manipulate the news but not expect it to be manipulated against you. You cannot have your news for free; you can only obscure the costs. If as a culture we can learn this lesson, and if we can learn to love the hard work, we will save ourselves much trouble and collateral damage. We must remember: There is no easy way.

  Ryan Holiday

  Hard Work, Character, Culture

  Ryan Holiday (2012). “Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator”, p.201, Penguin

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• The miracle of compounding returns has been overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs.

  John C. Bogle

  Miracle, Investing, Return

  "The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns". Book by John C. Bogle, 2007.

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• When your house contains such a complex of piping, flues, ducts, wires, lights, inlets, outlets, ovens, sinks, refuse disposers, hi-fi re-verberators, antennae, conduits, freezers, heaters -when it contains so many services that the hardware could stand up by itself without any assistance from the house, why have a house hold it up. When the cost of all this tackle is half of the total outlay (or more, as it often is) what is the house doing except concealing your mechanical pudenda from the stares of folks on the sidewalk?

  Reyner Banham

  Light, Often Is, House

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• Eventually the man comes to see that he has a mind, and that his mind is like a fist, wrapped tightly around a single thought. He cannot open the fist to look at the thought, for fear that it will fly away, but he knows that it is very important and that he must hang on to it, no matter what the cost.

  Ben Loory

  Men, Mind, Important

  Ben Loory (2011). “Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day”, p.130, Penguin

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