We know the costs of Europe. What are the benefits?

As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.

— Ed Begley, Jr

“I have learned what love costs. I never count it but I know what it costs.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“How can you measure progress if you don't know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the "market" put a…

— Arundhati Roy

But the thing we do know is whatever it costs to save and protect American lives in this conflict, we're going to spend.

— Saxby Chambliss

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.

— Nigel Farage

Imposing excessive new regulations, or closing coal-fired power plants, would produce few health or environmental benefits. But it would exact huge costs on society…

— Paul Driessen

Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other…

— John F. Kennedy

Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in…

— Meg Whitman

Isn't it ironic that pay, perks, and benefits all cost your company at the bottom line, but authentic recognition, especially when it's most unexpected,…

— Chip Conley

Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users…

— B. J. Fogg

Gambling has a zero-sum economic effect in its market and, like legalizing cocaine, the socio-economic costs of legalizing gambling overwhelm the benefits

— John Warren Kindt

Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the industry finance…

— John Warren Kindt

Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The reason we form networks is because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs. It's to our advantage as individuals and a…

— Nicholas A. Christakis

There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which…

— Charles Dickens