The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday.
I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
That darn luxury tax is pretty painful.
A Lyons skin is never cheape.
Customers often value a good more when its price goes up. One reason may be its signaling value. An expensive handcrafted mechanical watch may tell time no more accurately than a cheap quartz model; but, because few people can afford one, buying it signals that the owner is rich.
Many priceless things can be bought.
I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell.
I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
Luxury hasn't been democratised; it's been globalised.
Designer pricing should hurt, but it shouldn't kill you. You wince when you hand over your AmEx, but once you get it home, you never regret it. You divide it by how many days you're using it, and suddenly it becomes affordable.
It is difficult to see why lace should be so expensive; it is mostly holes.
We ask ourselves, why are Americans, the world’s best customers, paying the worlds highest prices?
