Scatman Crothers Quotes

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.

A billion dollars isn't what it used to be.

Inflation is not all bad. After all, it has allowed every American to live in a more expensive neighborhood without moving.

Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time.

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

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

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.

My best year I made $25,000. Of course, that was back in the '70s.

A penny will not buy a penny postcard or a penny whistle or a single piece of penny candy. It will not even, if you're managing the U.S. Mint, buy a penny.

Inflation destroys savings, impedes planning, and discourages investment. That means less productivity and a lower standard of living.

Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.

Time was when the average person could pay as he goes. Nowadays he has to pay as he comes and goes.

Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.

I remember the $0.05 hamburger and a $0.40-per-hour minimum wage, so I've seen a tremendous amount of inflation in my lifetime. Did it ruin the investment climate? I think not.

The Riches of a Country are to be valued by the Quantity of Labour its Inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the Quantity of Silver and Gold they possess

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

There is no such thing as agflation. Rising commodity prices, or increases in any prices, do not cause inflation. Inflation is what causes prices to rise. Of course, in market economies, prices for individual goods and services rise and fall based on changes in supply and demand, but it is only through inflation that prices rise in aggregate.

Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.

The history of the twentieth century - America's century! - has been pretty much a history of rising prices.

In the United States, after World War II, it took about two decades for the message to slowly seep in that inflation was going to be a permanent fact of the American way of life.

Americans have seen the value of the dollar slowly decline due to the steady erosion of inflation.

Nobody likes high interest rates.

It's very difficult for the middle class in America to keep up because of the inflationary pressure and the devaluation of the dollar.

Prosperity has nothing to do with the quantity of money that we have in our pockets, but rather with the quantity of goods that we can buy.