“To the economically illiterate, if some company makes a million dollars in profit, this means that their products cost a million dollars more than they would have without profits. It never occurs to such people that these products might cost several million dollars more without the incentives to be efficient created by the prospect of profits.” PeopleIfsMeanMightCompanyMillionsProductsCostDollarsProfitEfficientIncentivesMillion DollarsIlliterate Author:Thomas Sowell
“In 1967, the world health community launched a global effort to eradicate smallpox. It took a coordinated, worldwide effort, required the commitment of every government, and cost $130 million dollars. By 1977, smallpox had disappeared.” WorldGovernmentCommunityEffortMillionsCostCommitmentDollarsMillion DollarsSmallpoxWorld Health Author:Liya Kebede
“The Irish Six Million Dollar man only cost three quid.” MenHumorFunnyThreeMillionsCostSixDollarsMillion Dollars Author:Frank Carson
“You make a film for a million dollars and then it costs $10 million to sell it. That's the problem at the moment with independent filmmaking: You can make it cheap and then there's no money to market it.” MomentsProblemFilmMillionsCostIndependentSellsDollarsFilmmakingMillion DollarsNo MoneyIndependent Filmmaking Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“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
“None of the pictures I take a risk in cost a lot, so it doesn't take much for them to turn a profit. We don't deal in big budgets. We know what we want and we shoot it and we don't waste anything. I never understand these films that cost twenty, thirty million dollars when they could be made for half that. Maybe it's because no one cares. We care.” KnowsWantMadeBigsCareFilmTurnsDealsHalfMillionsRiskCostWasteTwentiesDollarsProfitBudgetsThirtyMillion DollarsNo One Cares Author:Clint Eastwood
“My mom was a manic depressive schizophrenic who, after a year in prison, went home and shot herself. My sister, Kirsten, an amazing poet, who was raised by this woman, and was dating a guy who broke up with her for the fourth time in three weeks. And one day, she came to his house, got a gun, and blew her brains out all over his headboard. I just went through a divorce, five years in court and cost me $2 million dollars. If anyone, by law, should be forced to take antidepressants it's me... But instead, I choose to be an antidepressant. And you can take me with alcohol.” IfsShouldYearsHomeLawGuyThreeHouseBrainMillionsFiveWeekPoetMomOne DayCostGunShotsDatingCourtDollarsPrisonRaisedMy MomDivorceAlcoholBrokeFive YearsTake MeMy SisterFourthMillion DollarsManicBroke UpSchizophrenicDepressiveAntidepressants Author:Christopher Titus
“I was just looking at moving to Cambridge, and a house I was looking at cost a million dollars. Because somehow, that's what a house costs. And I was thinking, "How can it be?" And I was thinking, "What am I doing? Am I going to be Niall Ferguson, that horrible man?” ThinkingMenMovingHouseMillionsCostDollarsHorribleMillion DollarsCambridgeFerguson Author:Jamaica Kincaid
“100 million dollars used to be the limit of what a movie might cost; now they routinely cost 300 million. Sooner or later, spectacle is just going to have to find a new way to exist.” WayMightUsedMillionsCostLimitsDollarsUsed To BeSooner Or LaterNew WaysMillion Dollars Author:Matthew Specktor
“I think, it was like 30 million dollars the Libertarians talk about that it cost them to get on the ballot. We don't have 30 million dollars. We're a people powered campaign.” PeopleThinkingMillionsCostDollarsLibertarianCampaignsMillion DollarsBallots Author:Jill Stein
“How is it possible that a process can be democratic when it comes by way of money? If there is money then it can be elected a senator, it can be elected a representative. Do you know how much it cost to be elected president of the United States? The amount has reached, billions of dollars, 2 billion, 3 billion, 4 billion dollars, that's how much a presidential campaign costs. How much does a senatorial campaign cost? It costs 80 to 90 million dollars; or the campaign of a representative, 40 to 50 million. Is that really a democracy?” IfsKnowsWayDoeStatesProcessPresidentUnitedMillionsUnited StatesKnow HowDemocracyAmountCostDollarsDemocraticBillionsCampaignsPresidentialDo You KnowRepresentativesSenatorsMillion DollarsPresidential Campaign Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars.” KnowsGivingCommunityMillionsHappenedSecurityCostHundredDollarsInternationalFiftyGenocideTroopsCouncilMillion DollarsInternational CommunityRwandaSecurity Council Author:Lakhdar Brahimi
“Perhaps you are thinking: 'But a tank costs several million dollars, not including floor mats. I don't have that kind of money.' Don't be silly. You're a consumer, right? You have credit cards, right? Perhaps you are thinking: 'Yes, but how am I going to pay the credit-card company?' Don't be silly. You have a tank, right?” ThinkingKindPayCompanyMillionsCostDollarsIncludingCreditSillyCardsConsumersTanksMillion DollarsCredit CardBeing Silly Author:Dave Barry