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Quotes About Affordability

It's much easier to create a high-end bag than a mass market bag that everyone can afford.
~ Lydia Hearst
People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.
~ Tadashi Yanai
We don't want cost to be a barrier to good students getting a higher education.
~ Roy Cooper
Even a Canadian baby with a harelip would be beyond our means.
~ George Saunders
We need to work together to fairly assess and improve the long-term economic and health value - and affordability - of all components of the healthcare system, including hospitalizations, drugs, devices, and other interventions, to optimize our health investment decisions.
~ Kenneth Frazier
With the loss of Free Choice Vouchers, hundreds of thousands of workers will now be forced to choose between their employers' unaffordable insurance or going without health care.
~ Ron Wyden
Some people can't get access to a gym, some people can't afford the gym. So I used to do workouts at home as well. I just tried to make it more approachable for everybody really.
~ Gemma Atkinson
I love Ikea: it's non-design, but it works.
~ Louise Wilson
T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Sixty-two per cent of Australians believe they cannot afford to buy everything they really need. When we consider that Australia is one of the world's richest countries and that Australians today have incomes three times higher than in 1950, it is remarkable that so many people feel their incomes are inadequate.
~ Scott Pape
If you can't afford a movie, go to the zoo. If you can't afford the zoo, go see a politician.
~ Stephen King
Housing costs are also squeezing middle- and lower-income families. For the poorest third of households, housing expenses have increased more than 50 percent since the mid-1990s and for the middle third, about 25 percent.
~ Jonathan Morduch
Salesman: 'This one is better, but you can't afford it.' Housewife: 'That's the one I'll take.
~ Eric Berne
It may just mean that the best way to cut the ever-increasing costs of health care around the world will be to provide cheap smartphones with Internet service to those who otherwise could not afford to buy them.
~ Eric Topol
In the US from 1980 to 2011, it became more than twice as expensive for Americans for purchase fresh fruit and vegetables compared to purchasing sugary carbonated beverages. Tomatoes and broccoli are far more expensive on average than they used to be for American shoppers. Energy-dense foods such as cakes and burgers have become far cheaper now in comparison to fruits and vegetables.
~ Bee Wilson
How do we make hockey more affordable? How do we get it into more households? How do we keep it part of the conversation? Those are things that will help us not only increase registration numbers from a grassroots level but also deepen the player pool from the senior national team and the elite level.
~ Hilary Knight
Houses with courts and gyms are super expensive. Not a lot of players can afford that. I know it sounds crazy to say an NBA player can't afford that, but that's how it is in L.A.
~ Ivica Zubac
The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation.
~ Matthew Desmond
If we allow more development, it will bring housing affordability.
~ Harry Triguboff
The church should lead on issues of housing and affordability.
~ Matthew Desmond
I am very open to looking at potential tax changes to improve housing affordability.
~ Gladys Berejiklian
Not everyone can afford to plunk down hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars on a laptop.
~ Sarah Jeong
People are hungry not because there aren't enough farmers or food, but because they don't have access to it or can't afford it.
~ Howard Graham Buffett
Increasingly, we're seeing two worlds in Canada. The world for most Canadians is increasingly unaffordable, involves more precarious work, and is a harder place in which to get by. The second world is an exclusive club for the wealthy and well-connected who get special access and are exempt from rules the rest of us play by.
~ Jagmeet Singh