Cost Quotes - Page 44

The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high... but no great thing was ever attained easily. A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time.

'New' movies are almost always hipper, faster, they mix genres aggressively, they smother their genre origins in new form, there are fewer of them, and they tend to cost a lot more money because you usually make more money on the megahit than you do on the steady progression of break-eveners. Except for the horror movie.

Trust is a powerful accelerator to performance and when trust goes up, speed also goes up while cost comes down - producing what we call a trust dividend.

America cannot afford a rally to restore sanity in the middle of a recession. Did you even consider how many panic-related jobs that might cost us in the fear-industrial complex?

I used the principles of Kickstarter to make 'She's Gotta Have It.' We filmed that in 1985 to 1986. The final cost was $175,000. I didn't have that money. It was friends, grants, donations. We saved our bottles for the nickel deposit.

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

Leadership is a choice to protect the person to the left of us, and protect the person to the right of us, and sometimes that may come at a cost. It may cost us our benefits, it may cost us our comfort, it may sometimes cost us our perks, whatever it is, credit.

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.

Human will is the strongest will ever created. There are those who are born to succeed and those who are determined to succeed. The former fall into it, and the latter pursue it at all costs. They won’t be denied. Nothing daunts them.

I question why the department continued to watch the costs escalate without informing Parliament and without considering alternatives.

It costs nothing to smile. Do it as often as possible

There are certain economics involved in making a network TV show that you want to amortize the costs of that, so the more episodes you make, the cheaper they all are individually.

Little changes cost you. Big changes benefit you by changing the game, but only if you go first.

What could you measure? What would that cost? How fast could you get the results? If you can afford it, try it. If you measure it, it will improve.

International alliances reduce the cost of developing cars significantly.

Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride

Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.

Consumerism has become a new religion, complete with its high priests at Which? and its fatwas against anyone with the temerity to try to sell anything at more than cost price ... It is a depressingly medieval outlook on economic life.

TMM is among the best of low-cost gold producers with strong longevity.

It's not the cost (although that pinches), or the time (though that grinds). After a while, it's the sheer galling indignity of being asked to prove, pay, and prove all over again that you're a worthy parent. Any true parent will tell you that that is impossible to prove in advance.

Think about how much it costs to learn more. Sometimes you want to build confidence by knocking off the easy things.

I'm not wanting and I don't live in a hovel, but if you keep your costs low, you can do what you want to do creatively.

Love always costs more than you can afford to pay," he said. "And it's always worth the price.

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.

To hell with the cost, if it's a good story, I'll make it.