“I am a great believer in high-priced people. If a thing cost a lot it may not be any better, but it adds a certain amount of class that the cheap thing can never approach; in the long run it's the higher-priced things that are the cheapest.” PeopleIfsMayLongRunningCertainBusinessClassAmountHigherCostApproachAddBelieverLong RunsCheap Things Book:Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President Source: Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President
“Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn from errors. The reactive approach - see what happens, limit damages, and learn from experience - is unworkable. Rather, we must take a proactive approach. This requires foresight to anticipate new types of threats and a willingness to take decisive preventive action and to bear the costs (moral and economic) of such actions.” HappensActionOpportunityMoralRiskEconomicTypeBearsCostLimitsApproachThreatErrorsTrialsDamageWillingnessExistentialAnticipateForesightProactiveLearning ExperienceTrial And ErrorOpportunities To Learn Author:Nick Bostrom
“Even in the King's Gambit ... White is no longer trying to attack at all costs. He has had to adapt his approach and look for moves with a solid positional foundation ... As often as not, his strategy consists of stifling Black's activity and then winning in an endgame thanks to his superior pawn structure.” TryingLooksMovingWinningBlackWhiteKingsCostActivityApproachFoundationStrategyStructureChessSuperiorsOpeningThanksPawnsEndgameStiflingGambit Author:Neil McDonald
“We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, "What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?"” PeopleWayChildrenKidsAsksPoorCarCostApproachPicksDoctorsTranquility Author:James Hillman
“The film is better for me than the sitcom. But the sitcom is like much more practical approach, if I may say that, because of the cost. Everything costs money, a lot of people don't realize that.” PeopleIfsMayFilmRealizingCostApproachPracticalsSitcom Author:Tommy Wiseau
“Polak, a psychiatrist, has applied a behavioral and anthropological approach to alleviating poverty, developed by studying people in their natural surroundings. He argues that there are three mythic solutions to poverty eradication: donations, national economic growth, and big businesses. Instead, he advocates helping the poor earn money through their own efforts of developing low-cost tools that are effective and profitable.” PeopleHelpingBigsThreeGrowthNaturalPoorEffortPovertyStudyEconomicCostApproachSolutionsLowsToolsArguingDevelopingSurroundingsProfitableEconomic GrowthPsychiatristBig BusinessDonationSolutions To Poverty Author:Amy Lockwood
“Our approach is to reject the old vicious circle of the '80s-rising debt, higher long-term interest rates, higher debt repayment costs, lower growth, higher unemployment, then enforced cuts in public spending. That was the old boom and bust.” LongGrowthTermInterestCuttingHigherCostApproachRateDebtSpendingCirclesLong TermRisingRejectsUnemployment80sViciousInterest RateVicious CirclesRepayment Author:Gordon Brown
“Funerals cost so much money, and are likely to be an additional source of stress in this recession - it's sad that we don't have a more humane, less commercialized way to approach burial.” WaySourceCostApproachStressFuneralHumaneRecessionsBurial Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“The companies that provide debt, what do you think their goal is? Is their goal for you to fully understand the cost of your debt? No. So they're basically creating these approaches to make you feel like it is incredibly cheap or just to think about the cost per day rather the cost per year or cost for a lifetime. So debt is very simple mistake.” ThinkingFeelsYearsGoalSimpleMistakeCompanyCostApproachCreatingLifetimeDebt Author:Dan Ariely
“It's risky to allow radiation to constantly go up into the atmosphere. The main criticism of this approach of entombing it is that it would cost too much, involve too many resources and people. But think of the cost of having all the crops impounded by the government, all the milk being thrown into the river, people's livelihoods destroyed.” PeopleThinkingGovernmentToo MuchCostApproachResourcesRiversCriticismDestroyedAtmosphereThrownMilkRadiationCropsLivelihood Author:Michio Kaku
“A technology becomes truly disruptive when it drives the marginal cost of something that used to be scarce and expensive to approach zero. Thus, it used to be to deploy software at scale, you had to fund a data center, buy a set of servers, storage, and networking gear, build an in-house IT management capability, and buy an expensive stack of enabling software before you could even get started. Now you can get all that from Amazon or Microsoft on a pay-as-you-grow model.” UsedHouseGrowsPayTechnologyCostApproachModelsManagementScalesUsed To BeDataExpensiveFundZeroSoftwareCapabilityNetworkingGearsMicrosoftScarceAmazonEnablingStorageDisruptiveServerData Centers Author:Geoffrey Moore
“On many occasions in the late 1950s and 1960s, [Ho Chi Minh's] ideas were apparently ignored by those who felt that his approach was too naive and prone to compromise. The outbreak of open warfare with the French and later with the United States was in effect a sign of the failure of Ho Chi Minh to achieve his objective to fight and win at low cost.” IdeasStatesFightingWinningFeltUnitedUnited StatesAchieveEffectsCostLateApproachLowsObjectivesCompromiseOccasionsWarfareIgnoredNaive1960sOutbreaks Author:William J. Duiker
“As we approach each of the great social challenges of our time we must acknowledge that old thinking will not provide the new solutions we need. These solutions will be uncomfortable, hard to sell and risky to execute. But the cost of not doing so is even greater.” ThinkingNeedsHardSocialChallengesGreaterCostApproachSolutionsSellsAcknowledgeUncomfortableOur Time Author:Simon Mainwaring
“If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.” IfsWayCareGoalHonestCostApproachUniversalReformHealth CareComprehensiveHealth Care ReformUniversal Health Care Author:Bernie Sanders
“Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.” RealityFineCostApproachIdealismIdealism And Realism Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.