Top 1200 Opportunity Cost Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

One should see any opportunity to serve as a rare and precious gift...and never waste such an opportunity.

Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.

Don't assume that opportunity will come to you. Put yourself forward when there is an opportunity.

To design a desk which may cost $1,000 is easy for a furniture designer but to design a functional and good desk which shall cost only $50 can only be done by the very best

One of the best ways to seed an opportunity is to allow someone to discover the opportunity for him- or herself.

One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and it will reduce the cost of rockets.

The high cost of living is a minor problem when compared to the cost of high living.

The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.

Freedom brings opportunity, opportunity makes your future.

Ending AIDS is an opportunity for this generation. We should not miss this opportunity

He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

The United States has such an opportunity to be a leader in the world, and that opportunity has been frittered away.

Sadness is an opportunity; a good opportunity to learn the real life!

Preparation for life is so important. Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity. Opportunity is all around us. Are you prepared?

The GP2 championship costs 0.65 percent of what the Formula One championship costs. I don't understand why GP2 cost $2.5 million and our team and other teams cost maybe between $300 and $500 million. I do not see what the difference is.

I just got an opportunity to do that with a film called 'Lootcase', and it's an opportunity that I am really grateful for.

Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.

Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

For us [hockey] is an opportunity, myself and my brothers have an opportunity to do something special.

Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.

One of the reasons some of the advocates of ever larger government and more government intrusiveness get nervous about discussions of the actual cost of government is that they fear if the people had a discussion about what government costs, the true cost of taxes, that they might not want as much government as they are presently getting.

Everyone needs an opportunity in life. I was given an opportunity as a manager, and you try and take it.

There's a huge cost to freedom in letting people talk about how you print these plastic guns or letting them say these things about arming for tyranny. There's also a cost to letting the government say these ideas can't be expressed, this is treason. It's difficult.

Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity.

I can't tell you how many board meetings I've been in where the CEO is anguished over the impacts on morale that cost cutting or layoffs will bring about. You know what hurts morale even more than cost-cutting and layoffs? Going out of business.

It would be wrong for us to offer difference from the Conservative Party at the cost of credibility, but equally it would be wrong to offer credibility at the cost of being clear that there remain very fundamental differences.

You can either complain or look for opportunity in every problem. I prefer opportunity.

If there's an opportunity open that leads to an even bigger opportunity, you're going to take it.

There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.

Just having the opportunity to play baseball and football at a major D-I level is a great opportunity.

You don't have the opportunity to win an Emmy unless you're given the opportunity to play certain kinds of roles.

And innovation and entrepreneurship is the opportunity and best opportunity we have to grow the economy.

It's risky to allow radiation to constantly go up into the atmosphere. The main criticism of this approach of entombing it is that it would cost too much, involve too many resources and people. But think of the cost of having all the crops impounded by the government, all the milk being thrown into the river, people's livelihoods destroyed.

If you're not a player, it's hard to get into this league. You need a small opportunity that you turn into a bigger opportunity.

Games have always presented an opportunity to escape. But they are also an opportunity to go somewhere that you come to know well.

If there's an opportunity to tell a story through acting or directing or cinematography or a book, I will embrace that opportunity.

Well, when you have an opportunity to build a show around one of the greatest detectives in all of literature, you're going to jump at that opportunity.

People need to understand. If they go to a show on Broadway and find seventy people working but only fifty spectators, how much would the ticket cost? That's what El Bulli's about. There are seventy actors who are playing for just fifty spectators. Is the price expensive? It's relative. How much does a normal dinner at a five-star hotel restaurant cost? Four hundred dollars. It's the same as El Bulli. But you can also think of it this way: How much would it cost to eat something that nobody else is eating?

There's a big difference between seeing an opportunity and seizing an opportunity

My job is to be the bench coach with the Rays and help this team succeed. If another opportunity arises, I'd welcome the opportunity.

If you really could take the CO2, when you burn hydrocarbons - coal, for example - if you could really capture the carbon and sequester it - they call it CCS - if the extra capital cost, energy cost, and storage costs over time didn't make it super expensive, then that's another path that you could go down.

I've always been taught to never wait for somebody to give me the opportunity, but to create opportunity for myself.

We have done a lot of work on cost reduction, getting ourselves lean, reducing our breakeven, reducing our fixed cost and increasing exports. All of these factors help because our export basket is not just automotive but also includes industrial products, railways and others.

Consumers used to think they had to compromise with solar. It was, 'Okay, I'm doing the right thing for the environment; it's cool to see the panels. I have to compromise on the cost and convenience side.' And now they no longer have to. On the cost side, it's cheaper, and on the convenience side, we set it all up.

I think any job you do is an opportunity to learn and an opportunity to explore and challenge yourself.

With the Health Impact Fund, the innovation is paid for separately, through publicly funded health impact rewards, and the product is sold at the cost of production to all. Here, the cruel injustice of preventing the poor from buying at cost - evidenced by today's suppression of the trade in generic versions of patented medicines - would no longer be needed.

Opportunity is infinite; once you know that, opportunity is omni-existent.

We should allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines. That will create a true 50-state national marketplace which will drive down the cost of low-cost, catastrophic health insurance.

Stay in school because education provides you with an opportunity. Opportunity is all you can ask for.

I have seen people wanting to devote their time & energy to nation building. All they need is an opportunity. 'MyGov' is that opportunity!

It's definitely important to be open enough to seize an opportunity when the opportunity is there.

The first thing we should acknowledge is that poverty is hugely expensive. It varies from country to country, but most of the time it's around 3, 4 or 5% of GDP. If you look at what it would cost just to top up the income of all the poor people in a country, it would cost about 1% of GDP.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

An opportunity to work is good luck for me. I put my soul into it. Each such opportunity opens the gates for the next one.

Doing processing locally has its advantages. For instance, the cost of an endpoint CPU and memory is a 1000x cheaper than the cost of CPU and memory in the server. And in many places around the world, connectivity and transmission costs are sometimes far more expensive than the device.

Adversity is an opportunity for growth. And an opportunity to really know who your friends are.

Especially in the realm of bringing an opportunity to do something creative to people, as I said, who wouldn't ordinarily have that opportunity. I think that's very important.

Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.

One effect of benefit-cost analysis is to give any respectable engineer or economist a means for justifying almost any kind of project the national government wants to justify... Exclusive reliance on benefit-cost analysis has been one of the greatest threats to wise decisions in water development.