cost Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about cost.
“The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.”
- B. C. Forbes
“Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.”
- Hannah More
“Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.”
- Steve Forbes
“Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.”
- Arthur C. Nielsen
“Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.”
- Donald Rumsfeld
“Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.”
- Vivienne Westwood
“For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity.”
- James Buchan
“The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.”
- Andy Stern
“Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.”
- John Quincy Adams
“False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.”
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford