Cost Awareness Quotes

In abandoning the understanding that things - services, goods, wars, and houses - have costs, we risk becoming infantilised, incapable of making decisions about government or finance, and perhaps above all about the environment, the wellbeing of the planet upon which we depend and which our children will inherit from us.

It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.

Notes are expensive... spend them wisely

If we want to be cost-conscious, we should do it, not just talk about how cost-conscious we are.

I think that a lot of companies are still amazingly price sensitive.

Linking financial element to energy consumption I think has a huge role if you think about a display instrument that could teach us about what we are using, how much it costs us, how much it is saving, and therefore change our decisions.

Demonstrate to your customer the difference between price and cost. The price is what it takes to purchase the item. The cost is the amount the customer eventually pays. They are not the same.

I'm not stingy. I'm just afraid of being an easy mark. People wouldn't have money long if they didn't ask how much things cost.

You might be a redneck if you need an estimate from your barber before you get a haircut.

When we do deals, it's not, 'Ah, it's a million bucks, who cares?' The penny means something.

As the price of gas goes up, people will become more conscience of how much they use.

We have a bad habit of not being able to do things cheap.

I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living.

Plans without price tags are simply pandering.

I don't want to hear what the price of meat is.