Cost Effectiveness Quotes

It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.

Count the cost first. Don’t pay too big a price for pursuing minor values.

The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view.

You can’t pass enough laws to stop customers from seeking and expecting value.

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

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

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

In the long run, a second class education always costs more money than a first class education.

The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.

There is no better system in the world than the U.K. education system that offers better value for money.

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

With health care, despite the fact that we as a nation have already chosen to provide health care in one form or another to everyone, we have, until Obamacare, chosen to pick the least cost-effective means, a mix of private and public offerings, of providing that care. That makes no sense.

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.

Subsidizing someone's rent is much cheaper than paying for new housing, police or medical responses, or hospital or jail stays.

Competition doesn't work well in the transportation business.

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.

System: Save yourself time, energy and money.

In cloths cheap handsomeness, doth bear the bell.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you're glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

It is far easier and more effective - and not just in terms of cost - to prevent conventional conflicts than to intervene after an eruption of violence.

In the short run and for decisions unlikely to have broad impact, it may be more cost effective to use just one expert.

Compared to the United States, physicians in Europe have a much more conservative approach to joint replacement in general.

Seniors vote, and that is why we have, you know, Medicare since the 1960s for seniors, and we didn't have a national healthcare program for children, even though it's a lot more cost-effective to deal with children than with seniors.

If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources.

It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.