Cost Barrier Quotes

Not everyone can afford to plunk down hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars on a laptop.

The creatives, they want to connect with people. These artists, the clothing designers, they want to connect with people the same way that music gets to connect with people. But the cost of silk is too expensive. And they won't lower their quality levels. So I can spend $2 million on a record and give it out in a democratic way. They could spend all their time making the greatest dress in the world, and it's just impossible to hand-make that many.

Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.

Travel costs should not be a barrier to opportunity for our young people.

Only a large-volume market like space travel can attack the barrier of high costs.

The current business model for language education is the student pays — in particular, the student pays Rosetta Stone $500. The problem with this business model is that 95 percent of the world’s population doesn’t have $500.

There's no real music on television unless it's music television, and then it's expensive videos, which people like me can't do.

If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.

As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.

You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people willing to turn in some work next to nothing, you going to have a feature. But you can't get beyond how expensive marketing the movie is, it's so crushing.

So we know that it's not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.