Sentences with phrase «enormous opportunity cost»

This undoubtedly was an enormous opportunity cost to Graham, as the GEICO case exemplifies the power of a great operating business.

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«Digital channels give banks an enormous opportunity to reduce costs, but the risk is that those cost savings come with lower levels of customer engagement.

At last week's Ulster Town Board meeting, Supervisor Quigley admitted he hasn't seen any cost / benefit calculations to prove that a limited number of below - industry - standard jobs are worth expensive highway wear and tear, the foreclosure of the opportunity to attract other industries, limiting the supply of water available to create new housing in the future, and 10 years of enormous tax breaks to Niagara.

The cost of passing by the opportunity to use effective educational materials is enormous.

Changes in the publishing industry in recent years have created enormous opportunities, but that's come at the cost of a deepening divide between how traditionally published and self - published authors are treated.

If you've been sitting on the sidelines for months — and people have been worried since at least the beginning of the year — the opportunity cost was enormous.

The opportunity cost of being uninvested — even for a couple of months, let alone four years — can be enormous.

Underscoring that maintaining carbon - intensive modes of production established in 19th - century Europe will incur enormous social and economic cost in the medium and long term, whereas shifting to a carbon - neutral future based on green technology and low - carbon energy creates wealth, jobs, new economic opportunities and local cobenefits in terms of health and reduced pollution,

«The opportunity cost in trying a strategy that would require Congress would just be enormous and we just don't have that kind of time,» said Andrew Light, director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at George Mason University and a former climate official in the Obama administration.

The cost to the Law Society in terms of staff time, bencher time and legal fees must be enormous; the opportunity cost of what could have been done in its stead staggering.

So, automation and machine learning will continue to drive down the cost of routine legal services, while opening up enormous opportunities to bring more people into the market.

While investing solely at home may have been sensible 50 years ago, when the cost and effort to get to another country was enormous, in this day and age, when you can get on a place and be anywhere within 24 hours, the opportunity for offshore investment is at your feet.

The eXp Realty Cloud Office has enabled would be brokerage owners who join the Company to shed enormous overhead expenses and staffing costs while still retaining a percentage of commissions generated by the agents they bring with them or attract and while availing themselves of an opportunity to scale their business in a way that traditional models do not easily support.