Business Cost Quotes

Obstacles to trade put up the cost both to consumers and businesses.

Businesses across the country are raising their prices in order to compensate for their added costs due to Obama's health care plan. If they aren't raising prices, they're cutting jobs as a result of the added cost, both of which hurt our economy.

With a population of 1.4 billion, China is a lucrative market. But getting into that market isn't cheap. At best, the price of doing business in China is silence; at worst, it's reading talking points straight from the Chinese Communist Party. Beijing is not subtle about it.

As I see it, most major philanthropists have been bullied into giving. They feel social pressure to give. It has become a cost of doing business.

The biggest cost of my business is competition - promoters bidding against each other to get a tour.

It’s hard to imagine the revenue from selling the prints will cover the cost of lost goodwill.

No one knows the cost of a defective product - don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.

As policymakers, we need to foster an environment that allows U.S.-based innovators and entrepreneurs to compete and to flourish. Excessive regulations and bureaucratic red tape dramatically increase the cost of doing business and create uncertainty for companies.

I have no issue with raising minimum wage, but then the customer can't say to us, 'Why are you raising your prices?'

We have always looked at taxes as a cost, just as any other cost that comes with doing business.

The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.

O2O and all-in-one systems mean we have to make online and offline inventory accessible to each other. This is complicated both in terms of the technical aspect and in cost. A story sounds wonderful, but if it is too costly, it is not good. Technology has to match business.

Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location, location, location.

When valuing a startup, add $500k for every engineer, and subtract $250k for every MBA.

We need long-term tax reform that promotes private sector job creation. And legislated mandates that kill jobs by raising the cost of payrolls need to be eliminated.

The cost to do business in Australia is higher, and the lack of scale is a part of that - Australia is a very small market compared to the U.S.

In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.