“Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.” PeopleDifferentSometimesDifficultViewsStepsAchieveCostBlockReduction Author:Eckhard Pfeiffer
“I don't understand why people in this country are so bent on doing the 'perfect,' when you have something that is good and makes sense from a cost-benefit point of view.” PeopleCountryPerfectViewsCostBenefitsPoint Of ViewMake SenseBent Author:George Voinovich
“From the point of view of the employer, it is in any case simply an item of cost, to be reduced to a minimum if it cannot be eliminated altogether, say, by automation. From the point of view of the workman, it is a "disutility"; to work is to make a sacrifice of one's leisure and comfort, and wages are a kind of compensation for the sacrifice.” IfsKindViewsCasesSacrificeComfortCostPoint Of ViewLeisureMinimumWagesItemsEmployersCompensationWorkmenAutomationSmall Is Beautiful Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
“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
“The military struggle may frankly be regarded for what it actually was, namely a war for independence, an armed attempt to imposethe views of the revolutionists upon the British government and large sections of the colonial population at whatever cost to freedom of opinion or the sanctity of life and property.” MayWarGovernmentViewsOpinionStruggleMilitaryCostIndependencePropertyPopulationBritishSectionsSanctitySanctity Of LifeBritish Government Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
“The best way in my view is to just buy a low-cost index fund and keep buying it regularly over time, because you'll be buying into a wonderful industry, which in effect is all of American industry... People ought to sit back and relax and keep accumulating over time.” PeopleWayViewsWonderfulEffectsIndustryOughtCostLowsInvestingBest WayBuyingRelaxFundIndex Funds Author:Warren Buffett
“The military is focusing only on the short run costs. If they don't provide appropriate body armor, they save some money today, but the healthcare cost is going to be the future for some other president down the line. I view that as both fiscally and morally irresponsible.” IfsBodyRunningTodayPresidentLinesViewsMilitaryCostAppropriateHealthcareIrresponsibleArmor Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“I think, from a progressive point of view, to have a Democratic Congress and a Democratic White House, and to have spent the time on Obamacare, which had real benefits, 20 million insured, but not on inequality, was a major cost to the Democratic Party, costing them their majorities, but also a bit of a cost to the country, because it didn't address the fundamental issues that led to Donald Trump and that led to a lot of unhappiness, just the continued widening inequality.” ThinkingRealCountryHouseBitsWhiteViewsPartyMillionsIssuesTrumpCostBenefitsMajorsFundamentalsMajorityDemocraticCongressPoint Of ViewInequalityAddressesUnhappinessWhite HouseProgressiveDemocratic PartyObamacare Author:David Brooks
“I think a lot of people view the death penalty as a debate class or something. The cost and what's at stake is really, really a big deal.” PeopleThinkingBigsViewsDealsClassCostDebateStakesPenaltiesBig DealDeath Penalty Author:Shane Claiborne