“It is difficult to systematically beat the market. But it is not difficult to systematically throw money down a rat hole by generating commissions and other costs.” DifficultCostBeatsInvestingHolesRats Author:Michael Jensen
“A lot of people think that regulations bring higher costs, but regulation is also about making sure that someone doesn't get to beat out the competition because they're dumping filth in the river or spewing poisons in the air.” PeopleThinkingAirHigherCostBeatsRiversCompetitionPoisonRegulationFilth Author:Elizabeth Warren
“When I say "an energy miracle," I mean that there will be some form of energy whose 24 hour cost really is competitive with hydrocarbons given, say, 20 years of learning curve. You invent it, then you look at how much its costs go down over the next 20 years, that it really beats hydrocarbons.” YearsLooksMeanFormNextEnergyGivenHoursCostBeatsMiracleCurvesLearning CurveHydrocarbons Author:Bill Gates
“He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.” WorldHeartMightPainSecretVisionBloodFlowerTerribleCostBeatsMovedMultitudesEquityDeficitHeart BeatBeauty Of The WorldAll The Pretty Horses Book:The Border Trilogy Source: The Border Trilogy
“Ourchestra: So you haven't got a drum, just beat your belly. So I haven't got a horn-I'll play my nose. So we haven't any cymbals- We'll just slap our hands together, And though there may be orchestras That sound a little better With their fancy shiny instruments That cost an awful lot- Hey, we're making music twice as good By playing what we've got!” MayLittlesPlayHandsTogetherSoundHavensCostBeatsInstrumentsAwfulHeyNosesFancyBellyOrchestraHornsSlapCymbalsHands Together Author:Shel Silverstein