Home / Topics / Cost Quotes

Cost Quotes

Browse 3615 quotes about Cost.

Cost Quotes

“I believe international work is a heavy task, but that it is nevertheless indispensable to go through an apprenticeship in it, at the cost of many efforts and also of a real spirit of sacrifice: however imperfect it may be, the work of Geneva has a grandeur that deserves our support.”

Believe May Real Spirit I Believe Effort Support Sacrifice Cost Deserve Tasks International Heavy Imperfect Nevertheless Indispensable Grandeur Apprenticeship Geneva

Author:Marie Curie

“Money is indispensable to a long-circuit heavy load energy system. It must be used when a sufficient surplus is being produced to allow a margin for exchange, and cost of transport, over a considerable distance. Money represents a storage battery when idle, and a generalized mode of the conversion of energy when it is in motion, with a function of equating time and space.”

Long Used Energy Space Cost Function Distance Heavy Conversion Sufficient Load Idle Indispensable Time And Space Margins Transport Circuits Batteries Surplus Storage Heavy Loads

Book:God of the Machine

Source: God of the Machine

“I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmae.”

Cost Thousand Heavy Repentance

Author:Aulus Gellius

“Our domestic problems are for the most part economic. We have our enormous debt to pay, and we are paying it. We have the high cost of government to diminish, and we are diminishing it. We have a heavy burden of taxation to reduce, and we are reducing it. But while remarkable progress has been made in these directions, the work is yet far from accomplished.”

Source: Message of the President of the United States to the Congress at the Beginning of the Second Session of the Sixty-eighth Congress, December 3 1924

“Everybody needs to understand that policies are going to change to make it unprofitable if you wreck the planet, those companies that continue exploring and developing fossil fuel resources for which there is no safe use are going to pay a very heavy cost for that.”

Ifs Needs Use Change Pay Company Policy Planets Cost Safe Resources Heavy Developing Fuel Exploring Fossils Wrecks Fossil Fuel

Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“The primary source of waste in government is that legislators are often under heavy pressure to vote for projects that will benefit their campaign contributors, even when those projects fail a simple cost-benefit test. But with the Supreme Court showing little interest in permitting tighter rules on campaign contributions in recent years, there is little reason to be optimistic that we'll start curbing this kind of waste any time soon.”

“Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.”

Enough Sound Growth Too Much Politician Cost Affair Burden Heavy Regulation Justified Small Business Love Affair Enough Time Admission Paperwork Exemption Not Enough Time

Author:John Sununu