Cost Quotes

Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing. (Faina Ranevskaya)
This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country. View quote
Clint Eastwood
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost. View quote
Arthur Ashe
LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing. View quote
Alan Perlis
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. View quote
Blaise Pascal
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. View quote
Gore Vidal
Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile? View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Good words are worth much, and cost little. (George Herbert)
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires. View quote
Abigail Van Buren
Instead of striving to be right at high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures. View quote
Edward de Bono
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me. View quote
Henri Matisse
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. View quote
Marie Curie
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. View quote
Meister Eckhart
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. View quote
Henry Ford
Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection. View quote
Don Tapscott
Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life. View quote
Merle Shain
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him. (Viktor Frankl)
Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today. View quote
Martin Feldstein
If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others. View quote
Morarji Desai
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. View quote
Hannah More
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it. View quote
Patrick Henry