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• I've been related to everything. Even the production; I knew how much it cost, I knew where the money went. It didn't last long, because hierarchy came back again.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Long, Hierarchy, Lasts

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• Business executives need to start by spelling out and communicating their values. Then they need to lead by example. This means getting rid of the bad apples and declining opportunities that bring instant wealth at the cost of selling one's soul.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Mean, Opportunity, Apples

  "Corruption in Business, and the Importance of Ethics" by Vivek Wadhwa, www.linkedin.com. July 13, 2013.

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• That abominable and sensual act called reading the newspaper, thanks to which all the misfortunes and cataclysms in the universe over the last twenty-four hours, the battles which cost the lives of fifty-thousand men, the murders, the strikes, the bankruptcies, the fires, the poisonings, the suicides, the divorces, the cruel emotions of statesmen and actors, are transformed for us, who don't even care, into a morning treat, blending in wonderfully, in a particularly exciting and tonic way, with the recommended ingestion of a few sips of cafe au lait.

  Marcel Proust

  Suicide, Morning, Reading

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• To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money.

  Henry Rollins

  Broken, Viruses, Might

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• Where was the use, originally, in rushing this whole globe through in six days? It is likely that if more time had been taken in the first place, the world would have been made right, and this ceaseless improving and repairing would not be necessary now. But if you hurry a world or a house, you are nearly sure to find out by and by that you have left out a towhead, or a broom-closet, or some other little convenience, here and there, which has got to be supplied, no matter how much expense or vexation it may cost.

  Mark Twain

  Taken, Rushing, House

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.6231, Delphi Classics

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• In an inflationary world, a toll bridge (like company) would be a great thing to own because you've laid out the capital costs. You built it in old dollars and you don't have to keep replacing it.

  Warren Buffett

  Bridges, Dollars, Would Be

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• You want to track Hollywood careers, look in the real estate section. You see a guy buy a house that costs $6 million, and you can literally start counting the days until he starts doing crappy movies.

  Chris Rock

  Real, Careers, Track

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• New Scientist magazine reported that in the future, cars could be powered by hazelnuts. That's encouraging, considering an eight-ounce jar of hazelnuts costs about nine dollars. Yeah, I've got an idea for a car that runs on bald eagle heads and Faberge eggs.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Running, Eight, Eagles

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• Bill Paley is not only the greatest boss I ever had, but he's the most brilliant, honest and warm human being I've ever met. And I'll say that to his face - even if it costs me my job.

  Jack Benny

  Jobs, Boss, Bills

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• I heard the other day of a man who paid a psychologist $50 to cure him of an inferiority complex - and later was fined $25 and costs for talking back to a traffic cop.

  Shelley Berman

  Men, Talking, Inferiority

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• When corporations get special handouts from the government, subsidies and tax breaks, it costs you. It means you have to pay more in taxes to make up for these hidden expenses, and government has less money for good schools and roads, Medicare and national defense and everything else you need.

  Robert Reich

  School, Mean, Government

  "Ten Ideas to Save the Economy #6: End Corporate Welfare Now" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2015.

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• I got so good at writing to a budget, my brain was restricting myself. I'd write, "It's a stormy night." Then I'd cross out stormy. I'd write: "It's a calm night." Then I'd cross out night. It's noon. Because you know how much night costs. You know how much rain costs. Nothing comes free in movies.

  Albert Brooks

  Rain, Writing, Night

  "Albert Brooks: What I've Learned". Esquire, "The Meaning of Life" issue, www.esquire.com. January 2011.

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• You might be a redneck if your 'huntin dog' cost more than the truck you drive him around in.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Dog, Redneck, Might

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• We have a conservative government that only thinks in terms of efficiency. They are spending a lot of money on military expenses and less and less on culture. My position is that culture can actually be economically viable. When I make a film, the film costs $3 million. Now, in Quebec, it grossed $3.5 million, which is a small film. It's not a comedy. There are no stars in it. And, it still grosses $3.5 million. That's just in Quebec.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Stars, Military, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that results exist only on the outside.The result of a business is a satisfied customer. The result of a hospital is a satisfied patient. The result of a school is a student who has learned something and puts it to work ten years later. Inside an enterprise there are only costs.

  Peter Drucker

  School, Years, Important

  Peter Drucker (2012). “The New Realities”, p.222, Routledge

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• One unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.

  James Q. Wilson

  Broken, Care, Window

  James Q. Wilson (1995). “On Character: Essays”, p.126, American Enterprise Institute

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• None of the pictures I take a risk in cost a lot, so it doesn't take much for them to turn a profit. We don't deal in big budgets. We know what we want and we shoot it and we don't waste anything. I never understand these films that cost twenty, thirty million dollars when they could be made for half that. Maybe it's because no one cares. We care.

  Clint Eastwood

  Risk, Twenties, Dollars

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• It is an absurd fiction that the churches are useful. They are nothing more than propaganda centers for superstitious faiths and doctrines. Church members have a right to believe in and propagate their various doctrines. But they should pay every item of the cost, of this propaganda, including fair taxation for all church property.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Believe, Church, Taxation

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• The companies move labor to the lowest-cost markets. And so I don`t - I used to support these agreements. In the Congress, I lost the AFL-CIO endorsement a few years because I supported them. But when middle class incomes are declining, these agreements don`t work well for America.

  Charles Schumer

  Moving, Agreement, Years

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• People are piling into England, there's lots of studio films happening there. When we budget our films we multiply it by 1.55 it's much easier than when we multiply it by 2 so the cost looks a lot less in dollars, because everybody talks in dollars in terms of finance. And then the shift that I think is coming, I hope is coming, is movies made in a..."simple" is the wrong word, you visit movie sets all the time I imagine, the whole process has just got so big.

  Eric Fellner

  Simple, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• There are major challenges, when it comes to making a film in the Arctic. When you're filming wildlife and that wildlife doesn't necessarily take direction, you can spend a lot of time waiting, where you're debating whether or not you should press the record button because it costs a lot of money.

  Greg MacGillivray

  Waiting, Challenges, Buttons

  Source: collider.com

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• Procrastination is one of the most expensive invisible costs in business today.

  Rory Vaden

  Procrastination, Today, Invisible

  Rory Vaden (2012). “Take the Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success”, p.37, Penguin

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• The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.

  Saint Augustine

  Obedience, Disobedience

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• In the film world, we can all be heroes. In the real world, where heroism can cost you your life or the life of the ones you love, people aren't so willing to make those sacrifices. When they do, they are set apart from the rest of us.

  John Rhys-Davies

  Real, Hero, Sacrifice

  "Exclusive Interview: John Rhys Davies Talks War of Resistance, Indy 5 + Returning to The Hobbit?". Interview with David Sztypuljak, www.heyuguys.com. August 15, 2011.

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• Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Add, World

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.323, Penguin

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