Norman R. Augustine Quotes

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.

When the commodities go up and the cost of transportation is going up, and the value of the dollar is going down, it's all going to translate to an 8 to 10 percent rise in food prices.

As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.

It's the old adage: You can make a pizza so cheap, nobody will eat it. You can make an airline so cheap, nobody will fly it.

Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them - the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome.

I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.

One of the things that has happened with technology is that it can only be helpful if it is useful, of course, but it can only be helpful too if it's accessible, and it can only be helpful if it's affordable.

It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

The upward revision of import duty, from 1 per cent to over 4 per cent on steam coal imports, will adversely impact the industry, as it will lead to increase in cost of power generation.

The lower the cost of the film, the more you can experiment.

It's easier to cancel a show if it's expensive.

We look back at the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments, where people screamed and hollered it's going to be too expensive, they couldn't afford it, and it wouldn't work. And it worked. It worked faster than people expected, at much less cost.

It simply is not cost affective to cover stories from independent sources.

That which costs little is less valued.

It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing.

The way prices are rising, the good old days are last week.

We will pay any price that we are instructed to. But the money has to come from somewhere.

Intelligence collection has its place—no question—… But no matter how important collection is, in the short and even the long run, it just doesn’t cost very much.

It is a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

Throwing money after security turns out to be a classic example of the law of diminishing marginal utility.

Cost effectiveness and effectiveness are not always the same thing in government.

If it doesn’t make economic sense, it doesn’t happen

Prioritizing spending and maximizing the effectiveness of taxpayer dollars is absolutely essential. We must draw the line, realigning programs when necessary and also eliminating failed programs.

I did 'Land of the Dead,' which was the biggest zombie film I had ever made. I don't think it needed to be that big. That money went largely to the cast. They were great, but I don't think that money needed to be spent.