#price

If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#become #better #denied #dissatisfied #forward

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#come #every #humanity #learn #means

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#behavior #choice #corrosive #economic #economic growth

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#character #crime #pays #price #society

Prices have stayed up because people in control of supply decided they could keep them up. ↗

— John Wilson

#control #could #decided #keep #people

The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine. ↗

— Will Wright

#come #console #conveniently #games #generation

Because of the Korean free trade agreement, South Koreans who want Oregon blueberries are gonna see their prices go down because we will be getting rid of a 45 percent tariff on this Oregon product. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#because #down #free #free trade #getting

I think we have to ask this administration, and the President specifically, about using their political capital now to stand up for the American consumer who is getting clobbered by these gasoline and oil prices. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#administration #american #american consumer #ask #capital

Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply - the lower the price. The higher the demand - the higher price. In other words, the more people who can buy oil, the higher the price of oil. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#basic #business #buy #demand #higher

I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road and would also be a, you know, would be a very serious shock for a world economy that can't afford serious shocks right now. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#also #because #create #down #down the road