“I know nothing, by experience, of party discipline. I would rather be a raccoon-dog, and belong to a Negro in the forest, than to belong to any party, further than to do justice to all, and to promote the interests of my country. The time will and must come, when honesty will receive its reward, and when the people of this nation will be brought to a sense of their duty, and will pause and reflect how much it cost us to redeem ourselves from the government of one man.” PeopleKnowsMenCountryGovernmentNationsInterestJusticePartyDogHonestyDutyDisciplineCostRewardsForestsOne ManPausesRaccoons Author:Davy Crockett
“... between government, business, and the public, there is a triangular community of interest. Clearly, it is in business' interest to shape its behavior to prevailing public values; it is more efficient to do so than not to do so. It is also clear that government is the high-cost alternative through which public values are imposed on corporations that do not accurately perceive these values.” GovernmentValuesInterestCommunityClearCostShapesBehaviorAlternativesPerceiveCorporationsEfficientPrevailing Author:Juanita M. Kreps
“As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much if the Press were free. But the Press is not free. As it costs at least a quarter of a million of money to establish a daily newspaper in London, the newspapers are owned by rich men. And they depend on the advertisements of other rich men. Editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones.” PeopleIfsMenMatterSchoolInterestOpinionMillionsRichDependsCostPressesCorruptionLondonNewspapersJournalistPrintEditorsQuartersReplacedRich ManAdvertisementsFreedom Of The PressSubservient Author:George Bernard Shaw
“To become a token woman - whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters - is to become something less than a man... since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.” MenWorldSelfLawWinningInterestViewsCostPrizeBrotherhoodLoyalSelf InterestNobelNobel PrizeTokensWorld ViewTenure Author:Adrienne Rich
“Nearly all our ills are the result of neglect in some way or other. And this truth may be said to apply to the ills of nations as well. Negligence is at the bottom of all decay. And decay always starts by showing little signs-or warnings. Then is the time to show interest and to be alert. There is nothing quite so easy as to neglect, and nothing quite so difficult as to repair that negligence. Negligence always carries a high price. It costs nothing to avoid it!” WayWellsMayLittlesSaidShowsNationsEasyDifficultInterestResultsCostBottomCarrieNeglectWarningDecayNegligenceHigh Prices Author:George Matthew Adams
“My position is that it is high time for a calm debate on more fundamental questions. Does human spaceflight continue to serve a compelling cultural purpose and/or our national interest? Or does human spaceflight simply have a life of its own, without a realistic objective that is remotely commensurate with its costs? Or, indeed, is human spaceflight now obsolete?” HumansDoePurposeInterestPositionCostFundamentalsCalmDebateObjectivesRealisticCompellingObsoleteSpace TravelNational InterestsSpaceflight Author:James Van Allen
“The discounting presumably is to be done for each period of time at that rate of interest which represents the alternative cost of employing capital in the occupation in question; that is, at the rate which the entrepreneur could obtain in other investments” DoneInterestPeriodsCostEntrepreneurInvestmentRateAlternativesOccupationEmploying Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“Where there is a confluence of interests among nations, as, for example the swine flu or polio, you can get well functioning international institutions like the World Health Organization. And you can act. Climate change is different, because the science remains hypothetical and the potential costs staggering.” WorldWellsDifferentNationsInterestExampleCostOrganizationInstitutionsRemainsClimateClimate ChangeInternationalFluStaggeringGet WellHypotheticalSwinePolioWorld HealthConfluenceWorld Health OrganizationSwine Flu Author:Charles Krauthammer
“I like movies that interest me and stories that interest me, I don't think about how much money it's gonna [cost] to make the movie, I don't think about any of that. I think about certain aspects like who's making the movie and who's gonna tell a story that I wanna be involved in, but I don't have that choice and I never have.” ThinkingStoriesCertainChoicesInterestInvolvedCostAspect Author:Alex Pettyfer
“[Vladimir] Putin wants to keep [Bashar] Assad in power and expand his own military base in Syria, whatever the cost. I even believe he has an interest in more and more people fleeing the country. The flow of refugees improves his negotiating position toward the West, including the German chancellor.” PeopleWantBelieveCountryInterestMilitaryPositionCostFlowWestIncludingSyriaRefugeePutinNegotiatingFleeingAssad Author:Garry Kasparov
“Our approach is to reject the old vicious circle of the '80s-rising debt, higher long-term interest rates, higher debt repayment costs, lower growth, higher unemployment, then enforced cuts in public spending. That was the old boom and bust.” LongGrowthTermInterestCuttingHigherCostApproachRateDebtSpendingCirclesLong TermRisingRejectsUnemployment80sViciousInterest RateVicious CirclesRepayment Author:Gordon Brown
“Imagine you have six loans, small to huge. People want to close loans and because of that, they try to pay off the small loans, but that's not the right strategy. The right strategy, of course, is to pay the loan with the highest interest rate. People make this mistake and it costs them lots and lots of money, it's a very expensive mistake because interest rates accumulate and become very, very expensive very quickly.” PeopleWantTryingCoursesInterestPayMistakeImagineHugeCostSixHighestStrategyRateExpensiveLots Of MoneyLoanInterest Rate Author:Dan Ariely
“We're guessing at our future opportunity cost. Warrenis guessing that he'll have the opportunity to put capital out at high rates of return, so he's not willing to put it out at less than 10% now. But if we knew interest rates would stay at 1%, we'd change. Our hurdles reflect our estimate of future opportunity costs.” IfsOpportunityInterestWillingReturnCostRateOur FutureGuessingInterest RateHurdleOpportunity Cost Author:Charlie Munger
“Christ had no interest in gathering vast crowds of professed adherents who would melt away as soon as they found out what following Him actually demanded of them. In our own presentation of Christ's gospel, therefore, we need to lay a similar stress on the cost of following Christ and make sinners face it soberly before we urge them to respond to the message of free forgiveness. In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.” NeedsFactsFacesFoundInterestChristCommonHonestyCostMessagesStressLaysCrowdsFollowingSinnerUrgesGatheringPresentationFollowing Christ Author:J. I. Packer
“There are wonderful low-interest loans you can take out to own your own solar and cut your energy bills down drastically. You can retrofit your home to become more energy efficient with on-bill financing, where the upgrades you make pay for themselves with the energy savings you generate. Ten years ago, there were only a few electric vehicles on the market, and today there are many, many more coming, and with each year the cost of them comes down.” YearsHomeTodayEnergyInterestPayCuttingWonderfulCostTenLowsYears AgoBillsSavingEfficientVehicleElectricLoanSavingsFinancingElectric Vehicles Author:Mark Ruffalo
“Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the industry finance those” NeedsInterestStudyIndustryCostBenefitsImpactFinanceAnalysisGamblingEconomistCost Benefit Analysis Author:John Warren Kindt
“Thirty-five states have Canada as their largest export market. Let's say we get into a trade war with the United States - hopefully not, but let's say. Many states in the union are going to have trouble and more costs getting their stuff up to Canada. If we make the border a little thicker in terms of tariffs, and hit back, that will start to impact the states, in particular large business interests that are in Canada. And that starts to put indirect pressure on the White House.” IfsLittlesWarStatesHouseStuffTermInterestWhiteUnitedUnited StatesFiveTroubleParticularCostPressureTradeImpactUnionsHopefullyBordersThirtyCanadaWhite HouseIndirectTariffsHopefully Not Author:Michael Kergin
“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.” YearsKindLittlesReasonGovernmentInterestSimpleFailingSourceCostWasteBenefitsProjectsTestsVotePressureCourtHeavyCampaignsSupremeOptimisticPrimariesContributionSupreme CourtLegislatorsBeing OptimisticContributorsPrimary SourceCampaign Contributions Author:Robert H. Frank
“The Fed has a lot of power in the economy because it has a big impact on the supply and cost of credit, that is, interest rates. It also plays a key role in supervising banks and historically has seemed to take it easy on the banks when it shouldn't have, such as in the lead up to the financial crisis.” PlayBigsEasyInterestRolesEconomyKeysCostCrisisImpactRateFinancialCreditFedsInterest RateFinancial CrisisTake It EasyBig Impact Author:Gerald Epstein
“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
“I mean, Dodd-Frank is strangling small community banks. It doesn't make any difference what the interest rate is. They're not - they're not going to loan the money because they can't make any money for one thing plus the cost of compliance.” MeanInterestCommunityDifferencesOne ThingCostRatePlusFrankLoanInterest RateComplianceStranglingSmall CommunitiesDodd Frank Author:Rick Perry
“Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters - all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing.” NextEnergyInterestTechnologyGenerationsInternetCostLowsRadioConnectedTinyControlledItemsNext GenerationFrequencyIdentificationEmbeddedComputingServerSensors Author:David Petraeus