Avoidable Cost Quotes & Sayings

I have to admit it: I'm not a huge fan of the cloud computing concept. — Jamais Cascio

Safe care saves lives and saves money. Adverse events like high levels of infection, blood clots or falls in hospital, emergency readmissions and pressure sores cost the NHS billions of pounds every year. There is a serious human cost, too, with patients ending up injured, or even dead. Most are avoidable with the right care. — Andrew Lansley

He was like a statue being chiseled away from the inside, hollowed out. As more and more of his thoughts gave him pain, Milton had increasingly avoided them. Instead he concentrated on the few that made him feel better, the bromides about everything working out. Milton, quite simply, had ceased to think things through. — Jeffrey Eugenides

The NHL is the best league in the world, but it's a grind. You sometimes forget, especially if you are losing, or missing the playoffs ... how fun this game can be. — Thomas Vanek

Look, Tammy, it's part of our mandate. We barrel in, we fuck things up, and then we walk away feeling good about our selves. — Steven Erikson

One of the things about the whole Harley motorcycle culture is that it's a little bit renegade. — John Travolta

Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin. — Maria Montessori

This is America: Corporate stealing is practically the national pastime, and Goldman Sachs is far from the only company to get away with doing it. — Matt Taibbi

JIT is a technique used to eliminate the waste of excess inventory. Parts and materials are "pulled" through the production process only as needed, rather than "pushed" out onto the production floor in large quantities. Accountants justifiably see inventory as an asset because it represents an investment by the company. From a JIT perspective, however, it is an avoidable cost that must be minimized. Any costs that do not contribute to the value of the output are to be eliminated. — John M. McKeller

I do think questions have been raised and questions have to be answered.And there is no way to predict what comes in the door of that White House from day to day that can pose a threat to the United States or one of our friends and allies, and I think this is a big part of the job interview that we are all conducting with the voters here. — Hillary Clinton

The little birds have God for their caterer. — Miguel De Cervantes