Cost Quote by Jerry Pournelle Download Open image “Everything takes longer and costs more.” — Jerry Pournelle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cost
Everything is getting more expensive. Except for people, they are getting cheaper — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Making anything more labor-intensive makes it more expensive. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Everything takes longer than you think it should, except for some things that don't take as long. — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
Everything takes longer than you expect, even when you expect it to take longer than you expect. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
The longer an article is in the process of manufacture and the more it is moved about, the greater its ultimate cost. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Our biggest cost is not power, or servers, or people. It's lack of utilization. It dominates all other costs. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
When you have more competition, you have better products and lower prices. — Maxime Bernier Copy Share Image
In the long run, it costs more to provide poor rather than good service. — Bill Capodagli Copy Share Image
I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away. — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
The American way of war is to build an army, then another, then a third, while building fleets. If the war is still on… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
A Dark Age is not just a period in which people no longer know how to do things. The real key is that people… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best. — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
It's not only possible, but likely that the Nobel Prize in economics will go in alternate years to people who disagree on nearly everything… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
Gates has always understood Moore's Law better than anyone else in the industry. If you can make something run at all, get it out… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
“Funny thing about this world,” Adams said carefully. “Legally, a sovereign government can protect its interests pretty well as long as it doesn’t start… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return. — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film. — Jessica Yu Copy Share Image
[Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I think that… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I… — Robbin Crosby Copy Share Image
I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I believe that government is too large, costs too much, spends too much, and has too much regulatory power in our lives. — Tim Walberg Copy Share Image
One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
When the government pays, health care's lack of affordability becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In health care, as in other things, government is the high-cost… — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
“In your goals to go the extra mile, prepare to pay an extra cost. Excellence is to be exceptional, surpassing, more competent and a… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image