#costs

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#big #costs #doing #inherently #life

Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#benefits #businesses #care #compensation #costs

I won the lottery. I don't care what it costs. ↗

— Jack Whittaker

#costs #i #lottery #won

Mitt Romney privatizes the gains from his enterprises, but spreads the costs to the rest of us. Seems that 'free stuff' is in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#costs #enterprises #eye #eye of the beholder #free

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

— John Grisham

#costs #couple #executing #guy #keeping

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#chins #costs #emotionally #eyes #feel

In our own state, we came up with, I think, what was a very novel approach to closing the gap on the uninsured. To harmonize medical records - which was a major step in getting costs out of the system. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

#came #closing #costs #gap #getting

In speech after speech on his health care plan, the President has tried to convince us that what he is proposing will be good for America. But, how can it be good for America if it raises taxes by a half trillion dollars and costs a trillion dollars or more to implement? ↗

— Scott Brown

#america #care #convince #costs #dollars

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#beyond #costs #go #hypocrisy #intending

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#bad #costs #lawyers #losing #lot