1,168 Quotes About Cost

  • Author Paul Hewitt
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    I think it's an object lesson that paying the cost of Social Security in the future is going to depend upon economic growth. If you don't have growth, our pensions and other obligations are going to become unaffordable.

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  • Author Pete Hastings
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    I'd like to see guidance on 2006 that ties all this together. I'm still somewhat skeptical of the degree of cost savings.

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  • Author Ray Holloway
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    Supermarkets use motor fuel to promote the rest of their business, so they hide the cost in other goods they sell,

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  • Author Regina Herzlinger
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    American industry spends a lot of time on cost accounting, and they do so because it gives them so much more control. But the health system rewards inefficiency. It's not a competitive system where the supplier names the price -- as a doctor, you can't determine the price, Medicare quotes it for you.... When the one saying it is as big a gorilla as Medicare, you say, 'I'll take it.'

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  • Author Richard Harris
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    It really (angers me) because these people lied with impunity and secondly it cost the defendants a lot of money and time, and cost the taxpayers.

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  • Author Robert Hartwig
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    We dodged a bullet. But it's still probably going to cost insurers in the vicinity of $4.5 billion.

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  • Author Robert Hartwig
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    We dodged a bullet, ... But it's still probably going to cost insurers in the vicinity of $4.5 billion.

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