#expensive

My father told me 'Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.' ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#ever #expensive #father #get #gets

The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive. ↗

— Lee Child

#big #bigger #british #cliff #either

Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood. ↗

— Coolio

#black #car #driving #expensive #get

Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there's an education level that plays into the mix and so if it's inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#china #competitiveness #costs #education #factors

Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#busy #buy #commitment #days #expensive

I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were. ↗

— Ted Demme

#because #bit #expensive #filmmakers #films

There are many great wine producers from all over the world making fantastic wines. Italian wines especially are making an enormous comeback after sometimes being labeled as inexpensive jug wines. ↗

— Rocco DiSpirito

#being #comeback #enormous #especially #fantastic

I need a SUV, for me and my four sisters. So, I've narrowed it down to four, kind of expensive, cars. ↗

— Alexa Vega

#down #expensive #four #i #kind

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.' ↗

— Peter Drucker

#clerks #companies #computers #employment #even

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive. ↗

— William Dunbar

#affairs #apply #becomes #difficult #enable