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Costs merely register competing attractions. -- Frank Knight
Costs and liabilities are rarely overstated. -- Seth Klarman
Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced. -- Taiichi Ohno
Costs of manufactured articles importantly depend on the cost of raw materials as well as labour. -- Charles E. Wilson
Costs are incurred whenever any group is treated as lesser or the other, whether they are women, racial, or religious minorities, or the LGBT. -- Hillary Clinton
Costs for liability insurance are higher than costs for many procedures. There is a need to reform liability laws to stop out-of-control health care costs. -- Temple Grandin
Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs. -- Henry Ford
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts. -- Will Rogers
Profit or perish... There are only two ways to make money: increase sales and decrease costs. -- Fred DeLuca
Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end. -- Tom Hiddleston
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. -- Edmund Burke
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. -- John F. Kennedy
I tend to regard the Coase theorem as a stepping stone on the way to an analysis of an economy with positive transaction costs. -- Ronald Coase
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. -- Winston Churchill
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Arthur Helps
This year I hope to introduce legislation that would require Power Administrations to list direct and indirect costs associated with ESA compliance as a line item on customer's power bills. -- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it is that you can't cut enough costs to save your way to prosperity. -- Howard Schultz
They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. -- Maya Angelou
Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems. -- Timothy Murphy
Every unskilled illegal immigrant who enters the United States for work drives up healthcare costs for every American. And, every illegal immigrant we turn a blind eye toward weakens the rule of law our country is founded on. -- Elton Gallegly
In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might. -- Alfred A. Montapert
But, as environment minister, I am very interested in a thriving German automobile industry, because I can only pay for the rising costs of environmental protection at home and abroad if there are people in Germany with jobs and who pay taxes. -- Sigmar Gabriel
You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars. -- Nick Nolte
As president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, I have seen private equity firms plunder company after company, taking rich fees for themselves and cutting costs until there's nothing left to cut. Time and again I've seen their reckless behavior drive companies to declare bankruptcy. -- James P. Hoffa
When I arrived at Campbell on January 8, 2001, the company had lost half its market value in the prior year. They had to cut costs to the point where they were literally taking the chicken out of chicken noodle soup and the product was no longer competitive. -- Douglas Conant
I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said to other mothers and women when they've asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs. -- Brooke Burke
For just a few dollars a dose, vaccines save lives and help reduce poverty. Unlike medical treatment, they provide a lifetime of protection from deadly and debilitating disease. They are safe and effective. They cut healthcare and treatment costs, reduce the number of hospital visits, and ensure healthier children, families and communities. -- Seth Berkley
In a period of economic downturn, the overwhelming instinct is to pare back, cut costs, and lay off. If you do that, do so with your strategy in mind. The worst mistake is to cut across the board. Instead, reconnect and recommit to a clear strategy that will distinguish yourself from others. -- Michael Porter
The main threads running through the lives of W. A. Clark and his daughter Huguette include the costs of ambition, the burdens of inherited wealth, the fragility of reputation, the folly of judging someone's life from the outside, and the tension between engaging with the world, with all its risks, and keeping a safe distance from danger. -- Bill Dedman
The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced. -- Elon Musk
And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it. -- Barack Obama
Hope costs nothing. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Disunity costs votes. -- John Major
I'm a win-at-all-costs guy. -- Ben Roethlisberger
Anothers bread costs deare. -- George Herbert
A smile costs about $240. -- Roma Downey
Careless talk costs lives. -- Elizabeth Wein
Money costs too much. -- Ross MacDonald
To dream costs nothing. -- Luis Marden
Money often costs too much. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Excellence costs a great deal. -- May Sarton
Avoid pornography at all costs! -- Thomas S. Monson
Everything costs something everyone pays -- Mark Twight
Politeness costs little and yields much. -- Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
Civility costs nothing, and buys everything. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
Everything costs and costs the earth. -- Maya Angelou
Big Business wants cheap labor costs. -- Rick Santorum
Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
I can't believe food costs money. -- Megan Boyle
Remember the poor, it costs nothing. -- Josh Billings
Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing. -- Samuel Smiles
College costs are out of control. -- Donald Trump
Ministry that costs nothing, accomplishes nothing. -- John Henry Jowett
Love is worth whatever it costs. -- Francoise Sagan
Freedom costs you a great deal. -- Lillian Hellman
Everything takes longer and costs more. -- Jerry Pournelle
Healthcare costs are rising due to Obamacare. -- Joni Ernst
There is nothing costs less than civility. -- Miguel de Cervantes
(A smile) costs nothing, but creates much. -- Dale Carnegie
Peace if possible, truth at all costs. -- Martin Luther
Anything that just costs money is cheap. -- John Steinbeck
That which costs little is less valued. -- Miguel de Cervantes
It costs you something to do good! -- Zora Neale Hurston
What you get free costs too much. -- Jean Anouilh
Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs. -- Charlie Munger
Honesty doesn't always pay, but dishonesty always costs. -- Michael Josephson
All businesses tend to pass costs onto customers. -- Jamie Dimon
Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs. -- Charles R. Swindoll
The gospel costs nothing but it demands everything. -- Mark Batterson
Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. -- Claus Moser, Baron Moser
True friendship never questions what it costs you. -- Stephen Richards
Respect your teachers. Staring the glaring costs vision. -- Junaid e Mustafa
Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing. -- Josh Billings
It costs a lot to build bad products -- Norman Ralph Augustine
[Pure research] is worth every penny it costs. -- Harold Urey
It costs nothing to dream and everything not to -- Rodney R. White
To oblige persons often costs little and helps much. -- Baltasar Gracian
It costs a lot of money to be rich. -- Peter Boyle
Higher energy costs are unavoidable in all future scenarios. -- Van Jones
No one thinks of how much blood it costs. -- Dante Alighieri
Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive. -- Robert M. Gates
The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high. -- Iain Duncan Smith
Private student loans should be avoided at all costs. -- Suze Orman
An experience of God that costs nothing does nothing -- Leonard Ravenhill
Salvation is free, but discipleship costs everything we have -- Billy Graham
Stay away from excellence at all costs; it stinks. -- Michael Leunig
It costs nothing to dream and everything not to -- Rodney R. White
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. -- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility. -- Miguel de Cervantes
In a conflict of loyalty, obey Jesus at all costs. -- Oswald Chambers
Life is a business that does not cover the costs. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
A better domain name will lower your lifetime marketing costs. -- Frank Schilling
It costs a lot of money to look this cheap. -- Dolly Parton
If testing costs more than not testing, then don't test. -- Kent Beck
Free competition is worth more to society than it costs. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs. -- Peter Drucker
It costs us $1 million for every troop[soldier] in Afghanistan. -- Lawrence Korb
Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers. -- Seneca the Younger
A smile costs less than electricity, but gives much light . -- Abbe Pierre
Everyone loves something for nothing...even if it costs everything. -- Stephen King
Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month. -- Al Yankovic
Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having. -- Elizabeth Arden
I won the lottery. I don't care what it costs. -- Jack Whittaker
A hamburger by any other name costs twice as much. -- Evan Esar
It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them. -- Thomas F. Wilson
We know the costs of Europe. What are the benefits? -- Nigel Farage
It costs more to maintain ten vices than one virtue. -- H. L. Mencken
A principle isn't a principle until it costs you something. -- William Bernbach
Medical costs are of concern, both in developing and developed countries. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I realize that advice is worth what it costs--that is, nothing. -- Douglas MacArthur
Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves. -- Andrew Carnegie
I'm all for bootlegging. A record costs $20 . . . who can afford that? -- Chrissie Hynde
The greatest possession we have costs nothing; it's known as love.... -- Brian Jett
That religion which costs a man nothing is usually worth nothing. -- Charles Spurgeon
Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing. -- Dodie Smith
A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow. -- John C. Maxwell
...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology. -- Fareed Zakaria
Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them. -- John Updike
It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend. -- George S. Clason

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