Cost of Goods Quotes

Living in Korea was a big adjustment because a coffee is going to be a little more pricey than what it is in the States. Wages aren't as high either.

An industrialist's answer [to inflation] is to charge more for his product to the public, never to cut his own profits. Labor's answer is even more natural. Since the worker would have to change his entire mode of life, labor asks for higher wages to cover the higher expenses.

Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple.

Expenditures have to keep rising to keep up with the population [growth].

Washington is too expensive.

The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.

It sounds to me like the OLED iPhone is a phone which Apple can't make 40 million of per quarter, at least not today. And if that's true, that means it should be more expensive. Not 'should' in any moral sense, but simply because that's how the principle of supply and demand works.

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

Inflation appears to affect the entire electorate, though in reality those able to increase their earnings at the same rate of inflation would not suffer unduly.

Inflation was driven by higher labor costs, not higher goods costs. Frankly, I'd love to see a little bit of that. Because I'd love to pay people more. I'd love to see rising wages for everybody.

The money wanted by the public must be purchased at its market price.

Food and energy account for a significant portion of household budgets, so the Federal Reserve's inflation objective is defined in terms of the overall change in consumer prices.

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

The problem is not that the PC you need always costs more than you can afford. The problem is that whatever the price, it is still too much.

Money costs too much.

I just get the same stuff as I did before, but the price tag is much higher.

Grocery stores can't afford to pay $80 a square foot. At that rate, we are going out of business.

When the commodities go up and the cost of transportation is going up, and the value of the dollar is going down, it's all going to translate to an 8 to 10 percent rise in food prices.

The salability of an item can often be improved while the value itself remains unchanged.

Rising prices of essential commodities has affected the day-to-day life of people of this country.

The way prices are rising, the good old days are last week.

On the one hand, the Republicans are telling industrial workers that the high cost of food in the cities is due to this government's farm policy. On the other hand, the Republicans are telling the farmers that the high cost of manufactured goods on the farm is due to this government's labor policy. That's plain hokum. It's an old political trick: "If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em." But this time it won't work.

What matters to every family in the country is that the cost of living is controlled.