“If every country committed to spending 0.05 per cent of GDP on researching non-carbon-emitting energy technologies, that would cost $25 billion a year, and it would do a lot more than massive carbon cuts to fight warming and save lives.” IfsYearsCountryFightingEnergyTechnologyCuttingCostCommittedSpendingBillionsMassiveCentsCarbonGdpSave A Life Author:Bjorn Lomborg
“I've had the luxury of travel and, in the luxury of travel, I've seen the detriments of poverty and I've gone on to see how easy the cures can be - cures that cost cents to the richest nations in the world.” WorldNationsEasyPovertyGoneCostCuresLuxuryCents Author:Brad Pitt
“A price decline is of no real importance to the bona fide investor unless it is either very substantial say, more than a third from cost or unless it reflects a known deterioration of consequence in the company's position. In a well-defined bear market many sound common stocks sell temporarily at extraordinary low prices. It is possible that the investor may then have a paper loss of fully 50 per cent on some of his holdings, without any convincing indication that the underlying values have been permanently affected.” WellsMayHas BeensRealValuesSoundLossCommonCompanyKnownPositionBearsCostPaperLowsConsequenceThirdsImportanceSellsExtraordinaryDefinedAffectedInvestorsDeclineCentsConvincingIndicationDeterioration Author:Benjamin Graham
“The Internet will not become a money machine until the banking industry figures out how to transfer money for free so you can charge USD 0.005 (half a cent) for some simple service like, say, reading a newspaper article you have searched for. With today's payment system, the cost of the transfer of the funds completely dwarf the cost of the service paid for. ... This situation, however, is what acutely prevents the Internet from taking off as a network for paid services.” TodayReadingSimpleHalfSituationFiguresIndustryInternetCostMachinesPaidNewspapersFundArticlesCentsBankingPaymentTransfersDwarfsDwarves Author:Erik Naggum
“Imports remain a concern with the currency holding at $US0.75 cents and cost pressures persist, in particular for power and transport.” ParticularCostConcernImportancePressureCentsCurrencyPersistTransportImports Author:Christofer Drew
“They make this drink in Brazil Called cachaca. It's sugar can alcholho. Costs 35 cents a quart. One quart of that stuff and you see God. Two quarts and you graow a pair of tight pants and an electric guitar.” TwoStuffDrinkCostGuitarPairsSugarPantsCentsElectricBrazilElectric GuitarTight Pants Author:David Lee Roth
“I find it ironic that now water is more expensive than music. On the one hand, record companies can't go crying when they've gouged consumers for decades, charging exorbitant prices for CDs that cost 29 cents to make. On the other hand, when music is free, musicians starve.” HandsWaterCompanyRecordsCryCostMusicianMusic IsDecadesConsumersExpensiveIronicCentsCdsRecord CompaniesCharging Author:Tom Morello
“Falling prices are driving renewable energy investment in India, which rose 13 per cent last year and is expected to surpass 10 billion dollars in 2015. Adoption of increasingly cost-effective renewables holds the genuine promise of a new age of socio-economic development, powered by clean, increasingly decentralised, and sustainable energy. The opportunity for India is tremendous.” YearsAgeLastsFallOpportunityEnergyEconomicDevelopmentPromiseCostIndiaDollarsRoseCleanInvestmentExpectedBillionsDrivingGenuineCentsLast YearAdoptionNew AgeRenewable EnergyEconomic DevelopmentSustainable Energy Author:Adnan
“I've got a kid in Africa that I feed, that I clothe, that I school, that I inoculate for 75 cents a day. Which is practically nothing compared to what it cost to send him there.” HumorKidsSchoolFunnyCostCents Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“There's real economic costs to climate change - So, Superstorm Sandy led to billions of dollars in damages. The fires out in the west, 70 million dollars a day are being spent in fighting fires that have clearly been exacerbated by drought and climate change. So, people have pointed out the true dollars and cents cost of inaction on climate change.” PeopleRealFightingMillionsFireEconomicCostDollarsWestClimateClimate ChangeBillionsDamageCentsMillion DollarsInactionDroughtSandySuperstorm Sandy Author:Naomi Oreskes
“There's no razor in candy. If for no other reason, it doesn't make financial sense. It's not fiscally prudent. How much does a piece of candy cost - like, a penny and a half? An apple's like 15 cents? Anybody here bought a Mach 3 replacement cartridge recently? They're so expensive, they don't even keep them on the shelf. You know, you have to ask the people behind the counter. I feel like I'm trying to buy enriched plutonium or something.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsTryingDoeReasonAsksBehindsHalfPiecesCostFinancialApplesExpensiveCentsShelvesCandyPenniesPrudentRazorsReplacementsPlutonium Author:Arj Barker
“NAFTA, supported by the Secretary cost, us 800,000 jobs nationwide, tens of thousands of jobs in the Midwest. Permanent normal trade relations with China cost us millions of jobs. Look, I was on a picket line in early 1990's against NFATA because you didn't need a PhD in economics to understand that American workers should not be forced to compete against people in Mexico making 25 cents an hour.” PeopleNeedsShouldLooksJobsHoursLinesMillionsCostNormalEconomicsRelationTradeWorkersChinaPermanentMexicoCentsSecretaryMidwestAmerican WorkersPhdsNafta Author:Bernie Sanders
“[The U.S. Treasury] can borrow basically unlimited amounts. They can stay there for years and years. These assets will be worth more money over time. So when Merrill Lynch sells a bunch of mortgage-related assets at 22 cents on the dollar like they did a month or so ago, the buyer goes - is going to make money, and he's going to make a lot more money if it happens to be an institution like the U.S. government which has very, very cheap borrowing costs.” IfsYearsGovernmentHappensMonthsAmountCostInstitutionsSellsDollarsBunchMaking MoneyRelatedAssetsCentsMore MoneyUnlimitedMortgageBorrowingTreasuryBuyers Author:Warren Buffett
“If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.” IfsPoliticsPresidentCostLike MeCentsGovernorsBucksDon't Like MeAlbanyPicket FencesYou Don't Like MeIf You Don't Like Me Author:Ed Koch
“Like now what Urban Outfitters has become is very much how I always dressed in high school by going to garage sales and getting stuff for 50 cents. Cost a little more now, to look like crap.” LooksLittlesSchoolStuffCostHigh SchoolCentsCrapUrbanGarageGarage Sale Author:Amy Lee
“There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.” CountryFiveTroubleCostPlentyQuartersCentsCigar Author:Franklin P. Adams
“At IMVU, the cost of customer acquisition through our five-dollar-a-day AdWords campaign was less than twenty-five cents. Our revenue from those same customers was more than a dollar.” FiveCostTwentiesDollarsCustomersCampaignsCentsRevenueAcquisitionTwenty Five Author:Eric Ries
“I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime.” JobsOrderFiveCostSwimPoolCentsWetBonusTowelsLunchtime Author:Esther Williams
“Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents.” IfsKnowsWorldStillsHomeWonderClearFiveCostFishesAround The WorldThirtyComing HomeNutsCentsSandwichesJamieTunaTuna Fish Book:From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Source: From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
“The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc., costs which are never charged directly to the consumer but, indirectly and invisibly, to the taxpayer (in the form of subsidies), the health care system (in the form of food-borne illnesses and obesity), and the environment (in the form of pollution), not to mention the welfare of the workers in the feedlot and the slaughterhouse and the welfare of the animals themselves.” CareFormAnimalEnvironmentCostAccountsWorkersIllnessOilNineHealth CareConsumersWelfareMealsSoilEtcPollutionCentsNinetyTaxpayersPursesObesityPublic HealthFast FoodHamburgersSubsidiesNinety NineHealth Care SystemSlaughterhouses Author:Michael Pollan