Famous Quotes & Sayings

When you take all those costs out you're not finding unreasonable profits for everything we have to do to get (gasoline) to consumers. These requests are just unfortunate.

We didn't deny the first pass. I think our little lack of defensive intensity and rebounding didn't really cost us tonight.

Until such time as the Forest Service selects a remedy or remedies for the site and costs are more definite, it is premature for the parties to enter into mediation.

Yeah, it costs more money to get to a show, but this is a seriously good show for the wholesale market.

Whether there is spec buying or not is not the greatest factor in the high cost of pharmaceuticals.

We're going to see higher construction costs anywhere.

We're going to find a different system that works for us, even if that costs us some money to do that. You want to make sure you know what you have in the classroom.

Kent Beck

First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer.

Kenneth Fisher

People do dollar cost averaging because they have regret of making one big mistake. But the fact of the matter is that, mathematically, the market rises more of the time than it falls. It falls, but it rises more of the time than it falls.

What we're having here isn't a demand constraint. It's a situation that nobody predicted. The No. 1 problem is construction costs and lack of skilled labor.

We would view this as a missed opportunity to have a wider debate on the wisdom of these restrictions that are driving up costs for taxpayers.

Michael Weatherly

What happens with 'Mad Men,' it's like an Elvis Costello album; I'll watch it, and then I immediately have to watch it again. AMC will play it back-to-back. I have a tendency to yell at it when my wife's not around because if she catches me yelling at 'Mad Men,' then it gets weird.

What happens is there's an increase down the road in the number of people who end up in emergency rooms and hospitals. The cost to the system is actually more. It's the equivalent to what happened to the levees in New Orleans.

Wow this place must have cost a million bucks.

Workers generally, and working families generally, are hit by the same huge increase in costs that's going to face them all winter.

Peter Graves

We're still in the process of tabulating the costs because the work is ongoing.

We're seeing evidence of Utah households responding to higher fuel costs by driving less, heating less, and being more efficient. And if oil prices stay high, we should also see more enduring efforts to explore alternatives, like tar sands and oil shale.

Ron Wyden

We're looking for the right vehicle to get this important provision into law and get some cost containment into the Medicare benefit.

Bob Phillips

A credit card sometimes adds to the high cost of living but more often to the cost of high living.

Benjamin Whichcote

A good word costs as little as a bad one, and is worth more.

Bill Gates

If you really could take the CO2, when you burn hydrocarbons - coal, for example - if you could really capture the carbon and sequester it - they call it CCS - if the extra capital cost, energy cost, and storage costs over time didn't make it super expensive, then that's another path that you could go down.

The reforms would cost not only employers and employees, but also taxpayers substantially, up to over a 3-per-cent increase for property taxpayers.

We're going to have to have labor costs that are competitive, as well.

Glenn Tilton

United has made fundamental and sustainable improvements in our operations, cost structure and revenue strategy.

We're just not seeing the demand pickup we'd like to see, and we hit a wall on some of the cost savings we were driving for.

We're forced to be put in a situation to gather items to recoup the cost that we really don't need or want.

We're hoping that the situation will stabilize, and we're even crossing our fingers that we might see some relief with costs going down.

Leonard Susskind

At 5 years old, I saw 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein,' and I was so scared when Costello sat himself down in the lap of the monster, not realizing where he was. My friends teased me. They were older, 8 years old. And my goal was to become a mad scientist and get back at them. And here I am, mad as hell!

With the rising costs of oil, the issue of energy efficiency has never been more important.

With the new technology, the images can be created using anybody's camera, and the cost to print the film is about the same as for 35 mm prints.

Thulasiraj Ravilla

If your goal is to provide a service at terms your customers can afford, you have to figure out how to offer your services at price points such that your aggregated costs are lower than your aggregated revenues.

Erna Solberg

If you want to decrease housing costs in Norway, the most important thing is to build more.

Carl Paladino

All Democrats are not entitlement people. These are the people who are going to suffer the cost of Obama health care. These are the people who are suffering because there're no jobs.