Quotes about cost-benefit (16 Quotes)


    It's a risk-reward, cost-benefit analysis, when you think about it. Sometimes it bites him, sometimes he comes out on the winning end of things.


    Every so often there's some money left and there's a fight over the carcass. But it's a cost-benefit analysis. How much money do you want to spend chasing it if there's not that much left.

    This is a comprehensive plan to accomplish both crucial goals simultaneously protect New Orleans from future flooding, and reconstruct the coast to help in that job. They go hand-in-hand. You can't do one and not the other. Just as importantly, we have to start now. We're not saying we can get all this done tomorrow, but we are saying we have to start tomorrow. We can't wait the five years it can take for the Corps (of Engineers) to do a cost-benefit analysis. We told them for years what a bargain this would be. Now I think they can see our plans were pretty darn cost-effective compared to what the costs are now.

    The IEEE's recent approval of a draft 802.11n standard was sorely needed. In recent quarters the consumer market for WLAN equipment has stagnated, especially from a revenue perspective, because 802.11g-based products have been in the market for three years, and consumers have not seen a cost-benefit to upgrading to 802.11a. Due to its better coverage and higher data rates, 802.11n will likely become a key enabling technology for distributing video to multiple devices in the home. We expect 802.11n will comprise 90 percent of the consumer WLAN shipments in 2009. We also expect enterprises to begin widely adopting 802.11n in 2009, once this new technology has become established in notebook computers.


    RFID in passports is a terrible idea, period, ... But on top of that, the State Department is acting without the appropriate authority and without conducting any form of credible cost-benefit analysis. It's asking Americans to sacrifice their safety and privacy 'up front' for a dangerous experiment that it hasn't even bothered to justify.

    What should have been done is a cost-benefit analysis to see if it would be better now to invest in the house and pay for it in cash, or if that money would be better spent for a boiler or new technology.

    In pharmaceuticals, the counterfeit program is described as a 30 billion issue. So the cost-benefit analysis in tagging shipments of Viagra is a lot more beneficial than tagging cans of Campbell's Soup.

    They opened up a dialogue. Economic incentives like this are very hard to sell to this Legislature. There needs to be a legitimate and sound cost-benefit analysis before taxpayer dollars are committed to a sports franchise.


    That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law.


    The severity of the sentences serves as an ominous reminder of the consequences of misconduct. Executives engage in cost-benefit analysis every day. It's not surprising that they would be more responsive to deterrence.






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