I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage. – Gerard Arpey
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. – Henry Ford
To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare program, their cost would be well within the resources available to many large private organizations. – Herman Kahn
That iPad you just bought. Do you care that it cost a few pence to manufacture? No. It’s cost you several hundred pounds because somebody else was willing to pay that much for it. If they weren’t… it wouldn’t. – Ian Watson
Ironically, for the mega-rich, recession brings with it the ability to live well at a lower cost and with less of a hassle. – Jamie Johnson
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. – Henry David Thoreau
It kind of irks me that the studio films still have to be so safe even though they don’t really cost as much to make. – James Wan
The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives. – Jean-Marie Le Pen
The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses. – J. D. Hayworth
Lower interest rates are usually considered good for stocks because they lower the cost of borrowing and make bonds a less attractive alternative investment. – Alex Berenson
AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion… It’s, what, a few months in Iraq. – Jared Diamond
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality. – Benjamin Jowett
It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting. – Ben Bernanke
The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment. – Bono
The marginal cost of doing something ‘just this once’ always seems to be negligible, but the full cost will typically be much higher. Yet unconsciously, we will naturally employ the marginal-cost doctrine in our personal lives. – Clayton Christensen
There is a societal cost of increased pollution, and that’s what I’m passionate about as a mother. – Cate Blanchett
We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee. – Andy Partridge
Efficiency innovations arise in industries that already exist. They provide existing goods and services at much lower costs. They are not empowering. Efficiency innovators become the low cost providers within an existing framework. – Clayton Christensen
The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010. – Bjorn Lomborg
Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of products, avoiding overlaps, exchange of best practices. – Carlos Ghosn