Ted Baillieu Quotes

The game has kept faith with the public, maintaining its old admission price for nearly thirty years while other forms of entertainment have doubled and tripled in price. And it will probably never change.

If you want to decrease housing costs in Norway, the most important thing is to build more.

When regulations on the housing industry are reasonable, the cost of housing goes down. Regulatory relief is needed to make housing more affordable to more Americans.

He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it', the costs were very small. They were less than they'd had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives. The cost was not that great.

Builders may receive due encouragement by having materials for building at reasonable prices.

The average person that lives in Sydney, if they want to buy a house in Sydney, that shouldn't be out of reach for them.

If we drive cost down, we will be able to live with low freight rates.

The best way to keep water prices down is to avoid unnecessary increases in costs.

I live in San Francisco, I live in Provincetown. They're all the same, apart from Baltimore. Baltimore's the only cheap place left.

The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.

We need to be careful when we talk about cutting health care costs. They are not going to be reduced - what we really want to do is do is slow the rate of increase.

Land values are going up a lot in Sydney, but it's feasible to build because prices are going up, too.

You'll have lower prices under deregulation than you will through regulation.

If you people can’t afford to live in our town, then you’ll just have to leave.

The greater the penalties laid on sellers in the black market... the higher the black market price.

The tell the regulators that they’re cost cutting, and then they tell their customers they have to increase their prices after the deal is done.

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.

Most poor families are living completely unassisted in a private rental market, devoting most of their income to housing. When you meet people who are spending 70, 80 percent of their income on rent, eviction becomes much more of an inevitability than the result of personal irresponsibility.

A stable and affordable home is fundamental to economic security.

When you're working with a low budget, the most expensive time is the time spent on the set. The words of the day are, 'Get off the set as quickly as possible,' and so CG enables you to do that.

The Gujarat government knows what's in the interest of consumers. When they plan, they ensure they can save every single rupee or earn every single rupee for the state government and bring power at lowest cost to the consumer. They are tightfisted in their approach.

Our priority has always been to have the lowest cost so we can be comfortable with weak freight rates. A big part of having the lowest cost is maintaining the largest network, and this means growing market share.

Zoning laws making housing more expensive? That's less of a problem with a universal basic income and more of a reason to put money directly into people's hands.

It's impossible for the government to curb property prices.

I strongly believe supply is the best way to address housing affordability.