#costs

Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#candid #choices #costs #make #must

Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million. ↗

— John Grisham

#costs #couple #executing #guy #keeping

Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their costs of doing business, but their competitors are not required to. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#business #businesses #competitors #costs #doing

Everybody says they want to have private providers and we're saying fine. Let the states negotiate on behalf of a population in your state to drive down your costs. Don't just give subsidies to insurance companies for expensive insurance. ↗

— Maria Cantwell

#companies #costs #down #drive #everybody

The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure. ↗

— William Vickrey

#effect #enter #exert #high #inflationary

That which costs little is less valued. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#less #little #valued #which

If the EPA continues unabated, jobs will be shipped to China and India as energy costs skyrocket. Most of the media attention has focused on the EPA's efforts to regulate climate-change emissions, but that is just the beginning. ↗

— Fred Upton

#beginning #china #continues #costs #efforts

Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff. ↗

— Scott Cook

#costs #customer #dramatically #even #focus

Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there's an education level that plays into the mix and so if it's inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#china #competitiveness #costs #education #factors

In a way it costs thousands dollars before you could actually go out to put the show on because you'll need equipments, all the lights you know, and that's more just going out and playing you know. ↗

— John Deacon

#because #before #costs #could #dollars