cost quotes

20 quotes

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

Bill Gates

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

William Shakespeare

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Henry David Thoreau

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Thomas Sowell

Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That’s why there’s the old saw: location, location, location.

Jeff Bezos

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Thomas Jefferson

You’d be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!

Dolly Parton

If your payloads cost hundreds of millions of dollars, they actually cost more than the launch. It puts a lot of pressure on the launch vehicle not to change, to be very stable. Reliability becomes much more important than the cost. It’s hard to get off of that equilibrium.

Jeff Bezos

Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

Noam Chomsky

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

Will Rogers

The true cost to the world of a burger is far greater than the money you hand over to buy it.

Richard Branson

Money often costs too much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

Jim Mattis

Transparency at the MSRB is dubious with data downloads too costly for all but the Vanguards of the world.

John Kennedy

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

William James

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Warren Buffett

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it’s always expensive.

Elon Musk

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

Abraham Lincoln