If inflation continues to soar, you're going to have to work like a dog just to live like one — George Gobel
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. — Sam Ewing
High gas prices are eating away at consumers disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel. — Major Owens
When profit margins of a whole industry rise because of repeated price increases, the indication is not a good one for the long-range investor. — Philip Arthur Fisher
As the price of gas goes up, people will become more conscience of how much they use. — Mike Rounds
The rising cost of prescription drugs has sparked a prairie fire that is spreading across our nation. — Tim Pawlenty
Poverty is on the increase - due to welfare cuts - and demand for food banks has rocketed. — Nicola Sturgeon
The exchangeable value of all commodities, rises as the difficulties of their production increase. — David Ricardo
Credit bubbles cause prices to rise; they do not themselves raise prices. — Russell Napier
Along with you, I have witnessed the unfortunate rise in gasoline prices that has accompanied the summer driving season and the more recent spike in prices due to Hurricane Katrina. — Bob Ney
When you raise your price, you increase the value the consumer receives without changing anything else about your product. — Alex Hormozi
It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting. — Ben Bernanke
Its completely possible that the present inflation is largely stuck now because of wage-price dynamics, especially in services, and will only come down in a recession. — Philip Pilkington
In a bubble, people are ready to pay any price without any regard to intrinsic value or any value whatsoever because they believe they can always sell it for a profit. — Naved Abdali
Short Rising Prices Quotes
Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. — Milton Friedman
Higher asset prices increase wealth and, with a lag, induce higher spending. — Jerome Powell
Inflation is worse than you think, and Bitcoin is better than you know. — Michael Saylor
Investment risk, high prices, optimism, skepticism, risk aversion — Howard Marks
Everyone believes something is risky, unwillingness to buy, price falls — Howard Marks
Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.
High Prices Quotes
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others—that is too high a price to pay. — Robert Greene
Our greatest glory is not in never failling but in rising every time we fall.
I've paid my price, a high price, I watched my mother die. I look at everything I've been given now as a form of compensation. A person who has regrets is a person who casts anchors. — Marco Pierre White
We will establish a new system that makes high-quality health care available to every American in a dignified manner and at a price he can afford. — Richard M. Nixon
Now that the Nordstream pipelines are gone it's worth thinking about how a deindustrialisation of Europe via permantly high energy prices. — Philip Pilkington
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange it for it.
We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless. — Lech Walesa
Market prices are often wrong. Because access to information and the analysis thereof are highly imperfect, market prices are often far above or far below intrinsic values. — Howard Marks
In order to be able to sell a product at a relatively high price, you have to offer the craftsmanship and quality that goes along with it. — Bernard Arnault
Value investor, high risk, low prospective returns, high prices — Howard Marks
Price Increase Quotes
The danger is if people are buying bitcoins in the expectation that the price will go up, and the resulting increased demand is what is driving the price up. That is the definition of a BUBBLE, and as we all know, bubbles burst. — Hal Finney
A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof. And then affordable housing becomes completely inaccessible. — William Baldwin
Almost any illiquid asset today lends itself well to moving onto the blockchain and becoming tokenized. It will create a deeper market with improved price discovery and should increase the value of those assets. — David O. Sacks
Every fall holds a lesson on how to rise.
We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability. — Paul Gillmor
Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher. — Bobby Jindal
We argued, as did the security services in this country, that the attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq would increase the threat of terrorist attack in Britain. Tragically Londoners have now paid the price of the government ignoring such warnings. — George Galloway
Children are not a distraction from more inportant work. They are the most important work.
Creating new pieces of paper and digital entries to paper over the deficiency in savings does not magically increase society’s physical capital stock; it only devalues the existing money supply and distorts prices. — Saifedean Ammous
In a world in which the price of calculation continues to decrease rapidly, but the price of theorem proving continues to hold steady or increase, elementary economics indicates that we ought to spend a larger and larger fraction of our time on calculation. — John Tukey
By reducing our dependence of foreign oil and increasing alternative energy sources such as ethanol, we can begin to bring down prices at the pumps, create thousands of new jobs and bring a much needed boost to our economy. — Jim Ryun
What makes stocks valuable in the long run isn't the market. It's the profitability of the shares in the companies you own. As corporate profits increase, corporations become more valuable and sooner or later, their shares will sell for a higher price. — Peter Lynch
House Prices Quotes
While some sit on the sidelines and fail to offer any practical solutions to address high gas prices now, the House is once again taking action to meet the energy needs of the American people. — Dave Reichert
I sold my house this week. I got a pretty good price for it, but it made my landlord mad as hell — Garry Shandling
But 300 million Americans, their lending institutions, their government, their media, all believed that house prices were going to go up consistently. And that got billed into a $20 trillion residential home market. Lending was done based on it, and everybody did a lot of foolish things. — Warren Buffett
Don't fall in, rise in love!
My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank's goal variables - output, employment, and inflation. — Janet Yellen
The Mother of Ignorance is always pregnant. But at Sean Price house, the b**ch have twins! — Sean Price
A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage-market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years. — Alan Greenspan
No sun outlasts its sunset but will rise again and bring the dawn.
The key to house prices is the share of foreclosure or short sales in the total housing market. When that share rises, house prices will fall, because distressed properties sell for significantly less - currently around 25 percent below non-distressed houses. — Mark Zandi
The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California. — Alice Rivlin
To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat. — George Crabbe
Housing was ground zero for the Great Recession. Between early 2006 and Obama's inauguration in 2009, average house prices fell by a third across the country. In certain areas, including cities as diverse as Akron, Orlando and Las Vegas, house prices fell by more than half. — Mark Zandi
Now imagine one day hyperinflation strikes, and the price of your ribeye increases to one hundred dollars while your daily wage remains ten dollars. What happens to the price of your basket of goods? It cannot rise tenfold because you cannot afford the one-hundred-dollar ribeye. Instead, you make do with the chemical shitstorm that is a soy burger for ten dollars. The CPI, magically, shows zero inflation. — Saifedean Ammous
Do not assume that what investors call momentum, a long streak of either rising or falling prices, will continue unless you can make a sound case that it will. — Edward O. Thorp
According to Cantillon, the beneficiaries from the expansion of the money supply are the first recipients of the new money, who are able to spend it before it has caused prices to rise. Whoever receives it from them is then able to spend it facing a small increase in the price level. As the money is spent more, the price level rises, until the later recipients suffer a reduction in their real purchasing power. This is the best explanation for why inflation hurts the poorest and helps the richest in the modern economy. — Saifedean Ammous
Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
The inflation of the 1920s had caused large asset bubbles to form in the housing and stock markets, causing an artificial rise in wages and prices. After the bubble burst, market prices sought readjustment via a drop in the value of the dollar compared to gold, and a drop in real wages and prices. The pigheadedness of deluded central planners who wanted to prevent all three from taking place paralyzed the economy: the dollar, wages, and prices were overvalued, leading to people seeking to drop their dollars for gold, as well as massive unemployment and failure of production. — Saifedean Ammous
Mining should not be too profitable because nothing should be too profitable, the world doesn't leave free money lying around. Therefore the price of Bitcoins can't rise too much above the cost of mining counting equipment depreciation among the costs of course. — Hal Finney
Labor costs are rising in China and it is being rivaled by Thailand and Indonesia, for price if not volume. — Tim Marshall
Nero, who ruled from 54–68 AD, had found the formula to solve this, which was highly similar to Keynes's solution to Britain's and the U.S.'s problems after World War I: devaluing the currency would at once reduce the real wages of workers, reduce the burden of the government in subsidizing staples, and provide increased money for financing other government expenditure. The aureus coin was reduced from 8 to 7.2 grams, while the denarius's silver content was reduced from 3.9 to 3.41g. This provided some temporary relief, but had set in motion the highly destructive self-reinforcing cycle of popular anger, price controls, coin debasement, and price rises, following one another with the predictable regularity of the four seasons. — Saifedean Ammous
The price of Bitcoins can’t rise too much above the cost of mining. — Hal Finney
Credit bubbles are created when people believe that asset prices will keep rising indefinitely and that there is no need for caution or restraint. — Russell Napier
A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money. — David Ricardo
But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper. — Michael Shermer
If you look at the way society is structured , it is structured to keep people overwhelmingly in a state of fear and always trying to survive, in terms of physically, in terms of terror, in terms of financially, the credit crunch, rising food prices; all this is survive, survive, survive. — David Icke
When enough people believe that prices will keep rising forever, a bubble starts. — Naved Abdali
Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from overpumping is a far more serious issue. Excessive pumping for irrigation to satisfy food needs today almost guarantees a decline in food production tomorrow. — Lester R. Brown
There is no inherent mechanism in our present system which can with certainty prevent competitive sectional bargaining for wages from setting up a vicious spiral of rising prices under full employment. — William Beveridge
If a Christian is not willing to rise early and work late, to expend greater effort in diligent study and faithful work, that person will not change a generation. Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the result of never getting tired. — J. Oswald Sanders
This country pays a price whenever our economy fails to deliver rising living standards to our citizens - which is exactly what has been the case for years now. We pay a price when our political system cannot come together and agree on the difficult but necessary steps to rein in entitlement spending or reform our tax system. — Chris Christie
What happens when corn and wheat prices rise is that we see real increases in malnutrition and under-nutrition. And when children are malnourished, their brain development actually slows down and is affected. So this is not just a short-term impact. — Jim Yong Kim
Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity. In the easy days after World War II... wage rises could be financed out of inflationary price increases. — John Chamberlain
I do believe that oil production globally has peaked at 85 million barrels. And I've been very vocal about it. And what happens? The demand continues to rise. The only way you can possibly kill demand is with price. So the price of oil, gasoline, has to go up to kill the demand. Otherwise, keep the price down, the demand rises. — T. Boone Pickens
The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern, and a rising deficit, changes brought on by globalization and even the price of oil have thrown the nation's economic health into question. — Roger Mahony
Farmers...can no longer keep up with rising demand; thus the outlook is for chronic scarcities and rising prices. — Lester R. Brown
The English are worried about the Euro being brought in because of loss of national identity and rising prices. In Scotland, people are just worried in case they have to close Poundstretcher. — Frankie Boyle
While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant. — Ed Pastor
Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders. — Mary Schmich
One man's wage rise is another man's price increase. — Harold Wilson
Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies. — Major R. Owens
What people today call inflation is not inflation, i.e., the increase in the quantity of money and money substitutes, but the general rise in commodity prices and wage rates which is the inevitable consequence of inflation. — Ludwig von Mises
I personally think that a couple of pounds a week - maybe rising to almost £3 a week - is a reasonable price for Britain to achieve a degree of energy security to reduce its total dependence on fossil fuels and to honour its commitments to cut green house gases. — Tim Yeo
Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies. — Major Owens
When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their will. — Mary Ruwart
For equity markets, the combination of low interest rates, strong economic growth and low inflation has proved very beneficial, with global share markets rising solidly in each of the past three years. This has been underpinned by strong growth in profits so that, notwithstanding the rise in share prices, P/E ratios have been declining on average. — Ian Macfarlane
The prices of all imports would rise if the dollar depreciates. — Robert C. Solomon
Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation; they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, sincemoney isjust another form of information. — Walter Wriston
Rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we have had to pay to get inflation down. That price is well worth paying. — Norman Lamont
Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise. Prospective purchasers should much prefer sinking prices. — Warren Buffett
No one should expect the value of their house to appreciate quickly - counting on your home to be a significant part of your retirement saving isn't a winning strategy - but it is reasonable to expect that prices generally will rise with at least the rate of inflation for some time to come. — Mark Zandi
Energy and fuel prices continue to rise, triggering fuel consumption concerns in the United States. — Dieter Zetsche
We all know that housing prices are going up, but what most people don't realize is that this has become a family problem. Housing prices are rising twice as fast for families with kids. — Amelia Warren Tyagi
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