“Oil is once again robbing the industry of a return to profitability. Cost reductions and efficiency gains have never been more critical.” IndustryReturnCostGainsCriticalOilEfficiencyReductionRobbingProfitability Author:Giovanni Bisignani
“What the new fertilizer technology has accomplished for the farmer is clear: more crop can be produced on less acreage than before. Since the cost of fertilizer, relative to the resultant gain in crop sales, is lower than that of any other economic input, and since the Land Bank pays the farmer for acreage not in crops, the new technology pays him well. The cost-in environmental degradation-is borne by his neighbors in town who find their water polluted. The new technology is an economic success-but only because it is an ecological failure.” WellsWaterPayTechnologyClearEconomicLandCostGainsTownsEnvironmentalNeighborAccomplishedFarmersRelativeCropsDegradationEcologicalNew TechnologyInputFertilizerEnvironmental DegradationEconomic Success Author:Barry Commoner
“The dialectical critique of positivist habits of mind ... is interested only in behaviour which is 'important' to the actor; that is, behaviour which is emotionally charged to the degree that it is either frequently recalled, reflected upon, or day-dreamed about. ... That science which is less discriminating in the behaviour it chooses to investigate gains clarity and distinctiveness at the cost of confining itself to the trivial.” MindImportantActorsHabitCostDegreesGainsClarityBehaviourCritiqueHabits Of Mind Author:John Carroll
“We spend a lot of time bickering at great cost, and very little time actually coming up with solutions. And I think we misuse our ambition for our own gains and rarely for the betterment of ourselves, and people around us and our environment. And I think that's sort of pathetic and desperate.” PeopleThinkingLittlesEnvironmentCostAmbitionSolutionsGainsDesperatePatheticOur EnvironmentLittle TimeMisuseBettermentBickering Author:Dave Matthews
“The demands of following Christ will cost you everything. But you gain far more than you give up. You give up dirt for diamonds.” GivingChristCostDemandGiving UpGainsFollowingDiamondDirtFollowing Christ Author:Steve Lawson
“If when I am libelled I take no notice, the world believes the libel. If I sue, I have to pay about one hundred pounds' costs for the privilege, and gain the smallest coin the country knows for recompense.” IfsKnowsWorldBelieveCountryPayAtheismCostHundredGainsPrivilegePositive AtheismPoundsSmallestCoinsLibelRecompense Author:Charles Bradlaugh
“Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.” InspirationalSelfInspirationMotivationalSuccessCertainAbilityAchieveAcceptanceConfidenceCostAchievementGainsLaborTasksDecidedOptimismPerseveranceSelf ConfidenceAccomplishedImmenseTiresomeTediumDistaste Author:Arthur Helps
“We only gain collectively by acting now. We gain by one day not having to pay a thing for fuel. We gain by having cleaner air, water, and food so that we are healthier and our health care costs come down. We gain by deflating the global fossil fuel markets that drive much of the conflict around the world.” WorldCareWaterPayActingAirOne DayCostConflictGainsAround The WorldHealth CareFuelFossilsFossil FuelCleanersHealth Care CostsActing Now Author:Mark Ruffalo
“I just don't think it's good public policy to tax fuel. It's kind of silly. It stops people from traveling and actually costs the economy more money than what you gain in the taxes.” PeopleThinkingKindEconomyPolicyCostTaxesGainsSillyFuelMore MoneyPublic Policy Author:David Neeleman
“The challenges, the changes we're talking about often seem to them like unbelievable opportunities to deliver a product quicker, better. If you can improve the quality, lower the cost, and improve the turns - and you can do that because your information systems, your delivery systems, are better because of technology - well, you see that as a wonderful opportunity to gain market share.” IfsWellsSeemsTurnsOpportunityCan DoChallengesQualityTalkingTechnologyWonderfulShareInformationProductsCostGainsUnbelievableDeliveryInformation Systems Author:Ken Moelis
“Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the disproportion between outlay and gain, the obvious fraud on nature, the excessive payment for a trick of genius, had to be offset by self-parody.” MenSelfGeniusCostGainsIncrediblesObviousTricksFraudSpheresEnteringPaymentFacilityPretenseParody Book:The street of crocodiles and other stories Source: The street of crocodiles and other stories
“What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?” IfsWarCareNationsMillionsCostThousandHundredGainsSpendingDiamondSteelGunpowderCost Of WarCocoa Author:W. E. B. Du Bois
“When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.” StatesHandsAgeWinningLosesLossRichTaughtProudCostOceanEternalGainsAdvantageSlaveStoresRageHungryKingdomsRuinsMortalsFirmSoilShoreBuriedDecayTowersLoftyBrassInterchange Book:Shakespeare’s Sonnets: The Problems Solved Source: Shakespeare’s Sonnets: The Problems Solved