Quotes About Pricing

Remind yourself that you're far more likely to undercharge than overcharge, my dear, because you don't yet understand your own value and you've never been taught to demand your full worth." She smiled. "That's why I appointed myself the bursar of this operation, because I've had to learn both.

But this may be the place to remark that the very fact that the unit costs of electricity, gas, and telephone services have advanced so much less than the general price index puts these companies in a strong strategic position for the future.3 They are entitled by law to charge rates sufficient for an adequate return on their invested capital, and this will probably protect their shareholders in the future as it has in the inflations of the past.

I think if you look at Merck's history, I think Merck has a reputation for having been a reasonable company when it comes to pricing, sort of a leader in that respect.

I really resent how expensive everything is in London.

There's a reason 'The Price Is Right' is on in every country in the world. It's simple, and people want to know the price of things. Plus we give away brilliant prizes.

Cost-plus is an inefficient way to do things.

The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.

We don't have a free market in health care. We need to connect customers up with the cost of care. And to drive innovation that way.

Innovative companies have started to realize there are not enough 'green consumers' willing to pay more for something just because it's green.

The fear is that if the dollar falls below 50% of the currency basket held by commercial and central banks and insurance companies, there may be a democratization of the way currencies are priced.

From Farbod Mimeh at LCG this morning: "With markets having already priced in a rate increase, a surprise decision from the Fed could spark major volatility and panic for equities." http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-dangers-of-getting-cocky-ahead-of-interest-rate-decisions-2015-12-16

La gente le va a preferir a usted sólo por dos motivos: porque hace algo mejor o porque lo hace igual que los demás pero más barato.

Oh, my, thank you, thank you so much, welcome to "The New Price is Right"; and let me assure you fans of the old "Price is Right" that this is your favorite game still based on the pricing of merchandise with wonderful awards for smart shoppers. We call it "The New Price is Right" because we have some exciting new games that you will enjoy right there at home with our studio audience, and we're going to get that first game going right now.

Lower prices led to more customer visits. More customers increased the volume of sales and attracted more commission-paying third-party sellers to the site. That allowed Amazon to get more out of fixed costs like the fulfillment centers and the servers needed to run the website. This greater efficiency then enabled it to lower prices further. Feed any part of this flywheel, they reasoned, and it should accelerate the loop.

Get Big Fast. The bigger the company got, Bezos explained, the lower the prices it could exact from Ingram and Baker and Taylor, the book wholesalers, and the more distribution capacity it could afford. And the quicker the company grew, the more territory it could capture in what was becoming the race to establish new brands on the digital frontier.

There are two kinds of retailers: there are those folks who work to figure how to charge more, and there are companies that work to figure how to charge less, and we are going to be the second, full-stop," he

If somebody else can sell it cheaper than us, we should let them and figure out how they are able to do it.

There are two kinds of retailers: there are those folks who work to figure how to charge more, and there are companies that work to figure how to charge less, and we are going to be the second, full-stop,

Existem dois tipos de vendedores: os que trabalham para descobrir como cobrar mais e os que trabalham para descobrir como cobrar menos, e nós seremos o segundo, ponto final",

If you live in a yard sale kind of neighborhood - in good weather, most neighborhoods are crawling with them on weekends - do a sweep to see what the competition is charging. No one is going to buy your $7 book if they can get it down the block for $1.

Transfer pricing is causing huge problems in Africa.

The real agency problem resides in the C-suite of ad agencies, and it is to the C-suite that we must turn to find leadership for the required changes. This won't happen unless agency CEOs finally admit that poor pricing is the fundamental problem that must be solved. Agency CEOs have the responsibility to solve the price problem. It's time to get started.

The entire health industry lies about what things cost to make," she said. "I know what things cost because I made them.

The longer-term the option, the sillier the results generated by the Black-Scholes option pricing model, and the greater the opportunity for people who didn't use it.