“We need to be careful when we talk about cutting health care costs. They are not going to be reduced - what we really want to do is do is slow the rate of increase.” WantNeedsCareCuttingCostIncreaseRateCarefulHealth CareBe CarefulHealth Care Costs Author:Dave Obey
“As a doctor, let me tell you what self-love does: It improves your hearing, your eyesight, lowers your blood pressure, increases pulmonary function, cardiac output, and helps wiring the musculature. So, if we had a rampant epidemic of self-love then our healthcare costs would go down dramatically. So, this isn't just some little frou-frou new age notion, oh love yourself honey. This is hardcore science.” IfsLoveInspirationalLittlesDoeSelfHelpingAgeBloodLove YouSelf LoveCostAnxietyDoctorsLet MeFunctionIncreasePressureNotionHearingSelf AcceptanceHoneyLove YourselfHealthcareImprovingNew AgeEpidemicsOutputHardcoreBlood PressureEyesightWiringGynecologistsCardiacObstetricians Author:Christiane Northrup
“Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an opportunity that leads inventors and businesspeople to seek new ways to satisfy the shortages. Some fail, at cost to themselves. A few succeed, and the final result is that we end up better off than if the original shortage problems had never arisen. That is, we need our problems, though this does not imply that we should purposely create additional problems for ourselves.” IfsWayNeedsShouldDoeEndsProblemRunningOpportunityGrowthResultsGreaterFailingHigherCostSucceedIncreaseOriginalsFinalsPopulationDuesIncomeConsumptionNew WaysBetter OffInventorShortageScarcity Author:Julian Simon
“The fundamentalist violence is, so is it, an attempt to increase the stakes, i.e. to discourage the potential desertions by showing that defection will cost them dear, that those who adopt other values will be persecuted or even killed.” ValuesViolenceCostIncreaseDearStakesDiscouragingFundamentalistPersecutedDesertion Author:Pascal Boyer
“One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate the hospital, such as doctors and nurses.” PeopleReasonCareCostDoctorsIncreaseHealth CareHotelNeglectHospitalsNurseHealth Care CostsDoctors And Nurses Book:People and Performance Source: People and Performance
“If evolution is a struggle for survival, why hasn't it ruthlessly eliminated altruists, who seem to increase another's prospects of survival at the cost of their own?” IfsSeemsStruggleEvolutionCostSurvivalIncreaseProspectsStruggle For Survival Book:The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress Source: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress
“As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American.” YearsNationsHurtEffectsCostIncreaseOilBillionsDependenceGasolineForeign OilOpec Author:Paul Gillmor
“Most innovations, unfortunately, actually increase the net costs of the healthcare system. There's a few, particularly having to do with chronic diseases, that are an exception. If you could cure Alzheimer's, if you could avoid diabetes - those are gigantic in terms of saving money. But the incentive regime doesn't favor them.” IfsTermCostDiseaseIncreaseInnovationFavorsCuresSavingExceptionRegimesHealthcareIncentivesSaving MoneyDiabetesAlzheimerAlzheimer's Author:Bill Gates
“An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job.” IfsMayUseJobsEnergyCitizensCostTaxesIncreaseBillsElectricitySeniorSenior CitizenCost Of Living Author:Newt Gingrich
“Clearly, we need more incentives to quickly increase the use of wind and solar power; they will cut costs, increase our energy independence and our national security and reduce the consequences of global warming.” NeedsUseEnergyCuttingSecurityWindCostConsequenceIncreaseIndependenceGlobal WarmingNational SecurityIncentivesSolar PowerAlternative EnergyEnergy Independence Author:Hillary Clinton
“Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. Particularly on large projects, each of the following mismanagement actions has often been responsible for doubling software development costs.” ActionPoorDevelopmentCostProjectsIncreaseResponsibleManagementFollowingFactorsSoftwareSoftware DevelopmentMismanagementPoor Management Author:Barry Boehm
“Civilization, that great fraud of our times, has promised man that by complicating his existence it would multiply his pleasures. ... Civilization has promised man freedom, at the cost of giving up everything dear to him, which it arrogantly treated as lies and fantasies. ... Hour by hour needs increase and are nearly always unsatisfied, peopling the earth with discontented rebels. The superfluous has become a necessity and luxuries indispensable.” MenNeedsGivingEarthLyingHoursPleasureExistenceFantasyCivilizationCostGiving UpIncreaseDearTreatedLuxuryOur TimeFraudRebelIndispensableSuperfluousUnsatisfied Author:Isabelle Eberhardt
“The city is not changing anything, ... increases in the cost of natural gas will be passed through to the customer.” NaturalCitiesCostIncreaseCustomersGasNatural Gas Author:Ruth Graham
“[Gambling] is a perfidious passion. ... It is bad for one to win, and bad not to win. ... it ends by setting your blood on fire, and to increase your chances of winning at any cost, your stakes increase frightfully; the desire of winning gets to be a madness. The soul gets sick; it neither sees nor hears anything. No family ties, position, nor fortune, can stand against this passion.” SoulEndsDesirePassionWinningChanceFireBloodPositionCostSickIncreaseMadnessFortuneSettingSettingsTiesGamblingStakesFamily Ties Author:Matilde Serao
“To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost by a lot more than an order of magnitude and increase safety by a factor of 100 as compared to every launch system used since the first manned space flight. I think airborne launch will be a significant part of the safety solution.” ThinkingNeedsFirstsUsedOrderSpaceCostSolutionsIncreaseSafetyAccessSignificantFactorsFlightBreakthroughMagnitudeOrbitAirborneSpace Flight Author:Burt Rutan
“As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.” CountryHigherCostMassIncreaseEmbraceUniversityRelativeElitesMaintainingHigher Education Author:Derek Bok
“You could increase farmworker wages significantly and not change the price to the consumer at all - for instance, if you redistribute how revenue is paid out across the food chain. Labor costs, particularly farm labor, is a tiny portion of the price we pay at the supermarket.” IfsPayCostLaborIncreasePaidTinyInstanceChainsConsumersFarmsPortionsWagesRevenueSupermarketsFood Chain Author:Anna Lappe
“Assuming that a tax increase is necessary, it is clearly preferable to impose the additional cost on land by increasing the land tax, rather than to increase the wage tax - the two alternatives open to the City (of Pittsburgh). It is the use and occupancy of property that creates the need for the municipal services that appear as the largest item in the budget - fire and police protection, waste removal, and public works. The average increase in tax bills of city residents will be about twice as great with wage tax increase than with a land tax increase.” NeedsTwoUseCitiesFireLandCostTaxesWasteIncreasePoliceBillsAssumingPropertyAverageProtectionAlternativesBudgetsItemsResidentsRemovalPittsburghTax IncreasesPolice Protection Author:Herbert Simon
“Trying to get a common set of trading rules right down to very simple things like paperless customs arrangements and telecommunications services and all those things that will help lower the cost and increase the ease of doing business across the region.” TryingHelpingSimpleCommonCostIncreaseEaseRegionsCustomsArrangementsTradingSimple ThingsTelecommunicationsPaperless Author:Andrew Robb
“A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.” ValuesPaintingCostIncreaseSellsShocking Author:Damien Hirst
“The worst thing the federal government could do is to increase the size, reach and cost of government. If government failed in its response to the hurricane, the answer is not more inefficient government.” IfsGovernmentAnswersWorstCostIncreaseResponseSizeWorst ThingsFederal GovernmentHurricanes Author:Cal Thomas
“I voted to repeal the government takeover of health care that raises costs, increases taxes, spends trillions of dollars that we don't have, cuts Medicare by $500 billion, and destroys jobs.” GovernmentCareJobsCuttingCostTaxesIncreaseRaisesDollarsBillionsHealth CareMedicareTakeoversGovernment Takeover Author:Robert Hurt
“And so we said to General Motors that the solution had to be a first year increase, which had to be sizeable because we bad to catch up with the lost position as against the cost of living and we had to make some progress.” YearsFirstsSaidLostProgressPositionCostSolutionsIncreaseMotorCost Of LivingGeneral Motors Author:Leonard Woodcock
“I believe the United States should join the rest of the world through paid family and medical leave. It would cost us a $1.61 a week in an increase in payroll tax.I think that`s a great investment.” ThinkingWorldShouldBelieveStatesI BelieveUnitedUnited StatesWeekCostTaxesIncreasePaidInvestmentMedicalPayrollPayroll Tax Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“If we were able to put every single solitary cancer cell that has a genomic - had their genome done in one place, we have the computing capacity to go in and look at what are the similarities and dissimilarities that make them work and don't work. And every expert will tell you, it is probably gonna exponentially increase the capacity to be able to find, A, cures, B, vaccines, and C, turn some cancers into chronic diseases, rather than it cost you your life.” IfsLooksDoneAbleTurnsCostDiseaseCapacityIncreaseCancerCuresCellsExpertsSolitarySimilarityVaccinesComputingGenomeGenomics Author:Joe Biden
“If gambling were banned, those social costs would drop, tax revenues from consumer goods would increase, and money would be pumped into the productive economic sector” IfsWould BeSocialEconomicCostTaxesIncreaseConsumersProductiveGamblingGoodsRevenueBanned Author:John Warren Kindt
“Clearly, there needs to be an increase in the capacity of the railway system. That's why there are these projections of increasing the capacity to carry freight on the railways by 30% over the next five years or so, because the volume of goods moved up and down, imports, exports, and within the country, has grown much larger than the capacity. And this is part of the higher costs to business, because charges, for instance, at the ports become too high and they put up the prices of these goods, whether they are imports or exports. You want to reduce that.” WantNeedsYearsCountryNextFiveHigherCostCapacityIncreaseMovedInstanceFive YearsGoodsVolumeUp And DownProjectionPortImportsRailway Author:Thabo Mbeki
“Requiring the payment of higher wages will lead to a loss of some jobs and a raising of prices which drives companies to search for automation to reduce costs. On the other hand, those receiving higher wages will spend more (the marginal propensity to consume is close to 1 for low income earners) and this will increase demand for additional goods and services. Henry Ford had the clearest vision of why companies can actually benefit by paying higher wages.” HandsJobsLossCompanyVisionHigherCostDemandBenefitsLowsIncreaseIncomeGoodsReceivingWagesPaymentPropensityGoods And ServicesLow IncomeAutomation Author:Philip Kotler
“There are times when a market such as housing, transportation or the stock or mortgage market keep rising and people with capital want to join in this growth. Soon the markets become overheated, partly because of the abundance of investment money and speculation. This is when the government should raise interest rates and increase the cost of borrowed money. Governments are shy about doing this because it could cause the very recession. Yet this is the best time to do this so that the inevitable recession never reaches the magnitude of the recent Great Recession.” PeopleWantShouldGovernmentCausesGrowthInterestCostIncreaseRaisesInvestmentRateInevitableRisingAbundanceShySpeculationHousingMortgageTransportationBorrowedMagnitudeRecessionsBest TimesInterest RateBorrowed MoneyGreat Recession Author:Philip Kotler
“But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.” PeopleIfsCareMillionsHealthCostConsequenceIncreaseHealth CareReportsMargins Author:Barack Obama
“A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region.” JobsLossResultsCostIncreaseTransformationAverageBillionsIncomeRegionsElectricityDecrease Author:Greg Walden