Costs Quotes

Money often costs too much.

Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money costs less.

Among the many important provisions in the energy bill are the creation of an estimated half million new jobs, increased oil production, blackout protection, controlling fertilizer costs by stabilizing natural gas prices and enacting new efficiency benchmarks.

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

By increasing the cigarette tax, Tennessee will reduce smoking, save lives and help offset the rising health care costs caused by smoking.

Some resorts have a 'develop at all costs' attitude regardless of environmental impacts or public opposition. Others rely on more caring environmental management decisions. The scorecard clearly delineates which resorts fall into each category.

It does lower our costs. And all of those savings flow back to the corporate bottom line. It allows us to bring out more new products and do more research and development.

Create a bedroom just like a luxury hotel that costs $600 a night. A great bed, wonderful linens, a chocolate on the pillow. Light candles and dim the lights. Male or female, anyone would love a room that has that feel.

[Sun's workstations enabled buyers to lower costs and boost efficiency just at a time -- the recession-plagued early '80s -- when cost cutting and increased efficiencies were imperative.] In hard times big companies stop investing in R&D, ... That opens doors.

Rising repair costs have increased the likelihood that damages exceed the vehicle's market value, causing an insurance carrier to total the vehicle rather than repair it. However, claims settlement satisfaction is considerably lower among customers who have had their vehicles totaled, often because they owe more on their vehicle loan than the settlement amount.

The market got ambitious in what they were expecting from the Fed. The fact that the statement mentioned energy costs having some impact on consumer spending led some to be a bit cautious on the future growth outlook.

The thing Wal-Mart has been really terrific at is on the operation side - purchasing and replenishment, keeping costs down. This has resulted in them getting a consumer base that is at the blue-collar, lower end. High oil prices hurt.

What the HMOs can't explain is why premiums are increasing twice as fast as hospital and physician costs.

Finding a resolution to the funding of TWIA and reducing reinsurance costs are essential. Otherwise there is the potential that the state General Revenue Fund could be hit if a major hurricane affected the Texas coast.

Concepts are more reality-based, because it costs so much money to develop them. We use them as a learning tool. We'd sorely miss the opportunity if we didn't listen to people.

Healthier employees mean happier employees. There's less absenteeism, improved productivity and lowered health care premium costs.

These actions will allow us to reduce costs without impairing our new product development activities in pursuit of long-term growth opportunities.

The increasing transportation costs that are being faced nationwide are severely impacting our budget and somehow we're going to have to make up for those increased costs.

We will be aggressive. We will address costs. We will address our footprint as a business. We will address capacity.

Of the small handful of companies that have reported, the disappointments that came out were due largely because costs were higher, and here we've got oil, the No. 1 catalyst that caused that, jumping higher again.

It's necessary in order to attract attention, to dazzle at all costs, to be disapproved of by serious people, and quoted by the foolish.

It costs a lot of money to go into cafes to breastfeed when out in public. Not everyone has the money to do that. Yet, at the same time, it is often people with the least money and accompanying health inequalities that are most likely to benefit from breastfeeding.

They know, make cars of higher quality, but often that higher quality costs more money, the price in the market doesn't go up, but the costs do, they can't afford it, but the competition can.

It's a question of fairness, ... Small and family businesses deserve to have the same deduction for health-care costs as Fortune 500 companies.