Top 1200 Opportunity Cost Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity.

Elegance in objects is everybody’s right, and it shouldn’t cost more than ugliness.

I've always said, when you join a club like United, it's a tough place to play at. But if you play and train and give 100%, then get your opportunity - I've always said you always get your opportunity there.

Whether there is spec buying or not is not the greatest factor in the high cost of pharmaceuticals.

Generosity has built America. When we fail to invest in children, we have to pay the cost.

A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.

The key issue when you're looking at cost cutting is to always plan for the future.

Olympus has been a much welcomed return to my Shakespearean roots. King Aegeus demanded a much greater range and depth that I've yet had the opportunity to tap on camera. Lab Rats was a wonderful opportunity for me to just go be a goofy buffoon, which I love. It was exhilarating to listen to all the funny lines the writers would come up with on the spot and then get to play them immediately.

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes

The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it.

I don't think my success or me having the opportunity to have success is from our generation. I think it's from the generations before us. I think it's the fact that people like Martin Luther King and Medgar Evers and people like that fought for us to have the freedom to do and say what we want and have the opportunity to make money.

It is not that uncommon for the cost of an abstraction to outweigh the benefit it delivers. Kill one today!

Not worrying about the cost of materials and tools extends my artistic freedom.

Be intentional about the spaces you create but not at the cost of compromising other elements.

I believe in destiny. But I also believe that you can’t just sit back and let destiny happen. A lot of times, an opportunity might fall into your lap, but you have to be ready for that opportunity. You can’t sit there waiting on it. A lot of times you are going to have to get out there and make it happen.

One of the problems fundamental to health care in the United States is access and cost.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

We don't want cost to be a barrier to good students getting a higher education.

If you do not pour water on your plant, what will happen? It will slowly wither and die. Our habits will also slowly wither and die away if we do not give them an opportunity to manifest. You need not fight to stop a habit. Just don’t give it an opportunity to repeat itself. (67)

When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.

An underground hit didn't make any money and it cost a dollar to get in.

In a free society, every opportunity comes with three obligations. First, you must seize it. You must mold it into a work that brings value to others. Second, you must live it. Opportunity is nurtured only by action. Third, you must defend the freedom to pursue opportunities. You must embrace these three obligations as if the future of the United States depended on it. In fact, it does.

Time is short. The world is at the brink of eternity. Right now we have the greatest opportunity to rise up and take the victory of the cross to the last corners of this earth. The Lord Jesus is graciously calling a remnant to the joys of simple obedience. For those who respond, I believe there is an opportunity right now to share in the last great move of God before Christ returns.

Half of NYC's homeless populations are families.Homeless people have been ignored for too long. I'll just say this: If you are a family on the brink of eviction you are 80% less likely to get evicted if you have legal counsel. However, there is no right to legal counsel in housing court.It would cost the city $12,500 to grant that family legal counsel. Meanwhile, the average stay for a homeless family in a shelter once they have been evicted cost the city $45,000. So not only does it seem like the right thing to do morally, it's also the right thing to do fiscally.

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

People expect those in authority to take on big problems and to solve them. We had an opportunity to reform Social Security in a way that would have protected people's benefits and created a solvent system. Younger workers would be confident that the money they were putting into the system would be available to them when they retired. It was a missed opportunity. I regret that.

Not since the early days of the civil rights movement has America been given an opportunity as great as the opportunity we have now. It's one thing for us to avenge our pain, our anger, and our rage by targeting bin Laden and a handful of men who have wrought this villainy. But one should be wise enough to ask, What fueled all this? What continues to sustain the possibility that this will not go away? I think the answer is poverty.

When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.

A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices. Only for short term investors and market timers is a correction not an opportunity.

An expert is the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.

Man seeks his own good at the whole world's cost.

Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America.

Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.

Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.

Excuses cost a dime and that's why the poor could afford a lot of it.

Foreign trade clearly holds down the cost of products we buy.

Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ.

I'm shocked to be saying this, but as a child, I never went to a circus. It cost too much.

One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.

Child of God, you cost Christ too much for him to forget you.

If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.

The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.

Show true cost of FICA-double what is shown on paychecks.

Don't seek opportunity. Seek God and opportunity will seek you.

Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.

Our salvation comes to us so easily because it cost God so much.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when it has to suffer. Then everything depends on whether the man turns to the lower or the higher helps. If he resorts to mere expedients and tricks the opportunity is lost. He comes out harder, poorer, smaller for his pain. But, if he turns to God, the hour of suffering is the turning hour of his life.

Unfortunately, the war has cost America greatly - politically - throughout the world.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Memorial Day reminds us that our freedom and prosperity comes at a cost.

Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.

Businesses are no longer receiving the cost savings from outsourcing that they once did.

Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.

For me, in general, it's always about the material. Obviously, it's about the material and hoping that someone wants to hire me for a job, too, but I've certainly seen films like 'Orphan' and movies like that where I know that if I had had the opportunity to read that script or had an opportunity to do it, I would have wanted to do it.

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Discipleship is crucial to our ultimate destiny, but its cost is total commitment.