#cost

The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#care costs #controls #costs #government #healthcare

For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies that have to add up to pay for not just the cost of that song, but the investment in the next song. ↗

— Hilary Rosen

#buck #cost #dollars #investment #just

For an economic recovery program to be effective, it must not only create a short-term economic boost but also generate lasting value. Home Star would accomplish that by breaking down the key barrier between homeowners and money-saving retrofits: upfront costs. ↗

— Peter Welch

#also #barrier #between #boost #breaking

Joy, has no cost. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#joy

No I haven't and all I can say is that if it's cost $600,000, I hope we get $600,000 worth of value out of it. ↗

— John Anderson

#get #haven #hope #i #i can

Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having. ↗

— Elizabeth Arden

#dollar #having #nothing #only #worth

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile? ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#cost #does #giving #hardest #live

If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill - the human cost of public works. That's what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people. ↗

— Robert Caro

#cost #effect #effects #good #how

Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room for error in that, and not a lot of room, I would think, for free expression. ↗

— Robbie Coltraine

#big #cost #each #error #expression

I had a couple come in with a negative amortization mortgage on a house that costs way too much relative to their income. They're consuming real estate, not investing in it. ↗

— Chris Cooper

#consuming #costs #couple #estate #had