Quotes About Price Increases

#1. 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

#2. House prices have risen by nearly 25 percent over the past two years. Although speculative activity has increased in some areas, at a national level these price increases largely reflect strong economic fundamentals.

Ben Bernanke

#3. We must keep prices under control to ensure that price increases do not exert a major negative impact on people's lives.

Li Keqiang

#4. To fix Social Security, we should first stop using the Consumer Price Index to adjust benefits for inflation. Using the C.P.I. overstates the impact of inflation and has also led to larger increases in benefits for Social Security recipients than the income gains of typical American workers.

Steven Rattner

#5. I have no scientific training at all. I was an English major in school. Everything I learned about science I've learned as a journalist would, finding out what I needed to know.

Michael Pollan

#6. The only time people turned to watch her go by was when she hurtled past them as she fell.

Cassandra Clare

#7. Student diversity in classrooms increases the need for diversity in teaching approaches.

Kay M. Price

#8. In celebration of Mother's Day yesterday, President Obama called three moms who had written him letters. Then kids who made their mom a macaroni necklace said, 'Thanks, Obama.'

Jimmy Fallon

#9. Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.

Gautam Adani

#10. Every person should take a lesson from history. We should understand that wherever there have been internal fights and conflicts in the country, the country has been weakened. Due to this, the danger from outside increases. The country has to pay a big price due to this type of weakness.

Rajiv Gandhi

#11. Unless a price can be put on carbon emissions that is high enough to force power companies and manufacturers to reduce their fossil-fuel use, there seems to be little chance of avoiding hugely damaging temperature increases

Rajendra K. Pachauri

#12. I've come to the conclusion that the government needs to impose price controls on tuition increases - and so, I think, has President Obama.

Timothy Noah

#13. In the 1990s, human intelligence gathering was seriously neglected.

Todd Akin

#14. I really make sure that my girls understand the importance of education. I don't want them to be spoilt and only know private school kids. I want them to behave well by example.

Wendi Deng Murdoch

#15. The first effect marriage had on me was to increase my lack of interest in sex ... Actually our marriage was a sort of friendship with sexual privileges.

Marilyn Monroe

#16. Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.

John Calvin

#17. America has the best politicians money can buy.

Will Rogers

#18. I think that being part of privilege and never having to work a day in your life is so boring. I'm so glad of what I've achieved. I'm so glad I've achieved it as well.

Callum Blue