Quotes About Pricing

Disinvestments will continue to happen. If the issue is priced correctly, there's no reason why it should not sell.

There is no reason that a cell phone should cost double in Israel what it does abroad.

When we launched The Deck, I hoped other networks would take inspiration from it and figure out how to increase engagement while minimizing clutter. I even tried to sell my studio's media clients on the notion of fewer, better-priced, better-targeted ads.

The gods sell anything and to everybody at a fair price.

the most expensive champagne in the world is cheap when compared with inkjet ink, which costs all of a penny a gallon to make wholesale.

them for at most $9.99. Jobs came in and offered publishers what he had refused to offer record companies: They could set any price they wanted for their

By 1972 the price of a pocket calculator had dropped to $100, and 5 million units were sold. By 1975 the price was down to $25, and sales were doubling every year. In 2014 a Texas Instruments pocket calculator cost $3.62 at Walmart.

If you've got the power to raise prices without losing business to a competitor, you've got a very good business. If you have to have a prayer session before raising the price by 10%, then you've got a bad business.

Opportunities for growth maximize the benefits derived from high returns on capital. Such opportunities can arise from market growth, either cyclical or structural, or through a firm grabbing share from rivals in existing markets or expanding geographically. The very best companies enjoy a diversified set of growth drivers through ingenuity in the design of products, pricing, and product mix.

They can sell at that price—and go broke and you can, too! If you base your price on your competitor's price—and they are going broke—you will, too. Typically, someone among your competition is going broke and usually is cutting prices on the way out. Owen Young, who is credited with having built General Electric, once said, "It's not the crook we fear in modern business; rather it's the honest guy who doesn't know what he is doing.

If you drop a channel, you're incredibly unpopular, and if you pass along a rate increase, you're incredibly unpopular.

Nice clothes fall apart. Nice clocks don't work. Bits fall off the nice cooker. It is hard to accept that pricing is unrelated to quality, but it's plainly true. Nowadays, we pay the price that satisfies our particular personality type; and then we live with the painful consequences.

The status quo on prescription drug prices is deeply broken and unsustainable.

If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.

There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

My work is my work and I will attempt to sell it for what it is.

People who are running for office mislead the American people by saying that there's a three-point plan or a bumper sticker kind of way of bringing down gasoline prices. The fact of the matter is that nobody can do that. The price of oil is set on the global economy. People who have looked at this closely and hard know that's the case.

I have never believed that large-cap stocks are too well followed to be anything but efficiently priced.

I never stopped dreaming of how to create a wearable to communicate with our thoughts, how to do this at consumer electronics pricing.

Higher pricing means that we can sell fewer units—and thus manage fewer customers—and fulfill our dreamlines. It's faster. Higher pricing attracts lower-maintenance customers (better credit, fewer complaints/questions, fewer returns, etc.). It's less headache. This is HUGE. Higher pricing also creates higher profit margins. It's safer.

Pricing low is shortsighted, because someone else is always willing to sacrifice more profit margin and drive you both bankrupt.

I personally aim for an 8–10× markup, which means a $100 product can't cost me more than $10–12.50.

The number-one theme that companies have when they really struggle is they are not charging enough for their product.

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