Cost Quotes

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

Everything costs and costs the earth.

Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage (in the Prayer Book's words), regulation should not "be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly"

Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.

A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

Display is as false as it is costly.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

A small nation, faced with the denial of its sovereignty — indeed, of its very existence — reminded us that the price of freedom is high but never so costly as the loss of freedom.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

Weighing benefits against costs is the way most people make decisions - and the way most businesses make decisions, if they want to stay in business. Only in government is any benefit, however small, considered to be worth any cost, however large.

Freedom is never free.

The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.

The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.

One of these days they are going to remove so much of the 'hooey' and the thousands of things the schools have become clogged up with, and we will find that we can educate our broods for about one-tenth of the price and learn 'em something that they might accidentally use after they escape.

Our distrust is very expensive.

The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply. It has a cost; it imposes a burden. And just as they whom we commemorate were willing to sacrifice, so too must we - in a less final, less heroic way - be willing to give of ourselves.

Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.

The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the principles of a division of labor to its extreme,--a principle which should never be followed but with circumspection,--to call in a contractor who makes this a subject of speculation,... and for these oversights successive generations have to pay.

Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.

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

The expenses required to prevent a war are much lighter than those that will, if not prevented, be absolutely necessary to maintain it.

Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat.

There's no such thing as free love. Have you seen the price of Viagra?

There are sneakers that cost more than an iPod.

McDonald's breakfast for under a dollar is actually more expensive than that. You have to factor in the cost of bypass surgery.

I am a great believer in high-priced people. If a thing cost a lot it may not be any better, but it adds a certain amount of class that the cheap thing can never approach; in the long run it's the higher-priced things that are the cheapest.

Inside an organization there are only cost centers. The only profit center is a customer whose check has not bounced.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has been for the defense of freedom for ourselves and for other peaceful nations who needed our help. But now, faced with the development of weapons with immense destructive power, we've no choice but to maintain ready defense forces that are second to none. Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.

If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man,--and I think that it is, though only the wise improve their advantages,--it must be shown that it has produced better dwellings without making them more costly; and 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.

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.

Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it.

The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us

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

[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature in such a way as to harm their neighbors and especially to harm the future generations of Americans. If many years ago we had had the necessary knowledge, and especially the necessary willingness on the part of the Federal Government, we would have saved a sum, a sum of money which has cost the taxpayers of America two billion dollars.

This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That's beside what it costs to ship it to the asylums where it's read.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories, in tax-sold farms, and in hordes of hungry people, tramping the streets and seeking jobs in vain. Our workers may never see a tax bill, but they pay. They pay in deductions from wages, in increased cost of what they buy, or - as now - in broad unemployment throughout the land.

Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.

Money often costs too much.

Come, agree, the law's costly.

For every advance that the Japanese have made since they started their frenzied career of conquest, they have had to pay a very heavy toll in warships, in transports, in planes, and in men. They are feeling the effects of those losses.

We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet.

You cannot make a cheap palace.

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

It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.

The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.

Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people of that.

Marketing and innovation make money. Everything else is a cost.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.

When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection.

If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.