“People need to understand. If they go to a show on Broadway and find seventy people working but only fifty spectators, how much would the ticket cost? That's what El Bulli's about. There are seventy actors who are playing for just fifty spectators. Is the price expensive? It's relative. How much does a normal dinner at a five-star hotel restaurant cost? Four hundred dollars. It's the same as El Bulli. But you can also think of it this way: How much would it cost to eat something that nobody else is eating?” PeopleIfsThinkingWayNeedsDoeShowsActorsStarsFiveFourCostNormalEatingHundredDollarsDinnerRestaurantsExpensiveFiftyHotelRelativeTicketsSeventiesBroadwaySpectators Author:Ferran Adria
“The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996; well over twice as much as in 1992 in the presidential and congressional races.” ThinkingYearsWellsHas BeensTwoRaceFourCostPercentCampaignsPresidentialFour YearsPresidential Campaign Author:Robert Waterman McChesney
“I am divorced, and one of the things I am tremendously grateful for is that my ex-husband and I made a decision to go through mediation. I knew a trial would drag on for years, would cost me everything, but worse, would be devastating for our four small children.” YearsChildrenMadeWould BeDecisionFourCostHusbandGratefulTrialsDragExesDivorcedSmall ChildMediationEx Husband Author:Jane Green
“There is, apparently, some law of nature decreeing that all home construction must double in its projected cost and take four times longer than originally anticipated.” HomeLawFourCostConstructionLaws Of Nature Book:G Source: G
“An alloy of innocence and arrogance, young (Ted) Williams came to Boston when it had four morning and four evening local newspapers engaged in perpetual circulation wars. He became grist for their mills, and his wars with the sportswriters brought out the worst in him, and cost him. He won two Most Valuable Player Awards and finished second four times. Several of those times he would have won had he not had such poisonous relations with the voting press.” TwoWarYoungMorningFourPlayerWorstCostRelationPressesValuableFinishedNewspapersLocalsEveningInnocenceEngagedArroganceVotingAwardsPerpetualBostonMillsCirculationPoisonous Author:George Will
“Even after I had just done Twilight, which made $400 million at the worldwide box office, I could not get financing for three or four projects that I really loved and I thought people would love because they didn't fit some studio or investor's model of thinking, "This will definitely make money." It's a business and a film does potentially cost millions of dollars, and they have to think that they're going to get their money back somehow.” PeopleThinkingDoeMadeDoneFilmThreeLove IsMillionsFourFitCostOfficeProjectsModelsDollarsBoxesStudiosMaking MoneyInvestorsTwilightFinancingBox Office Author:Catherine Hardwicke
“Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.” IfsWorldYearsMindHumansWarSufferingClearFourImagineCivilizationCostInternationalRealizationWar Of The WorldsAnarchyAbandonedFour YearsHuman Suffering Author:Arthur Henderson
“During the last five years, those four advantages-costs, products, people, goodwill-have been the salvation of Interface during a recession that saw our primary marketplace shrink by 38% from peak to trough-38%! As a heavily leveraged company with over $400 million in debt, we might not have made it without the sustainability initiative and, especially, the support of our customers. This revised definition of success-this new paradigm-has a name: "Doing well by doing good". It is a better way to bigger profits.” PeopleWayYearsWellsHas BeensMadeMightLastsNamesBusinessCompanyMillionsSupportFiveSawsFourProductsCostAdvantageBiggerSalvationDefinitionsProfitDebtCustomersMade ItPrimariesFive YearsSustainabilityInitiativeShrinksMarketplaceParadigmDoing GoodBetter WaysGoodwillRecessionsInterfacesDefinition Of SuccessLast Five YearsTrough Author:Ray Anderson
“Of the four project development variables - scope, cost, time and quality - quality isn't really a free variable. The only possible values are "excellent" and "insanely excellent", depending on whether lives are at stake.” ValuesQualityFourDevelopmentCostProjectsExcellentStakesScopeVariables Book:Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change Source: Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change
“That abominable and sensual act called reading the newspaper, thanks to which all the misfortunes and cataclysms in the universe over the last twenty-four hours, the battles which cost the lives of fifty-thousand men, the murders, the strikes, the bankruptcies, the fires, the poisonings, the suicides, the divorces, the cruel emotions of statesmen and actors, are transformed for us, who don't even care, into a morning treat, blending in wonderfully, in a particularly exciting and tonic way, with the recommended ingestion of a few sips of cafe au lait.” MenWayCareLastsUniverseReadingActorsHoursEmotionMorningFireFourBattleCostThousandTreatsExcitingMurderTwentiesSuicideDivorceStrikesNewspapersThanksSensualFiftyMisfortunesTransformedStatesmenBankruptcyPoisoningCafesBlending In Author:Marcel Proust
“Man, them engagement rings, boy, they cost a lot. I was looking at 'em. Cost like a thousand bucks, two thousand bucks, y'know. Three thousand bucks. Something like that- four thousand bucks. Big number divisible by a thousand, anyways.” KnowsMenTwoBigsThreeNumbersBoysFourCostThousandRingsEmsEngagementBucks Author:Norm MacDonald
“We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that matter, genocide is peace when you get right down to it. The historical consequences of a philosophy predicated on the notion of no war at any cost are families flying to the Super Bowl accompanied by three or four trusted slaves and a Europe devoid of a single living Jew.” WarMatterPhilosophyFightingThreeFourCostConsequenceEuropeSlaveryHistoricalSlaveNotionJewFlyingTyrannyGenocideTrustedBowlsSuper BowlNo War Author:Bill Whittle