Quotes About Pricing

These days, newish art can be priced between $10 000 and $25 000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1 200, they look at me like I'm a flesh-eating virus.

Yes, I think bitterly, that's how it is with us, and with all poor people. They don't dare to ask the price, but worry themselves dreadfully beforehand about it; but the others, for whom it is not important, they settle the price first as a matter of course.

But you can be sure they'd find a way to bill for it.

Rumour has it,' Angoulême snapped, 'that your mother only charged her customers four shillings, but no one would give her more than two.

The bitcoin protocol is about mining bitcoin, not pricing bitcoin. There is nothing in the protocol about establishing a market price for bitcoin; you need a market for that, but what if all the exchange markets are shut down?

The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.

Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.

You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value at all, and that's nonsense.

I believe you should have a world where you've got to license something at a fair price.

I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of duty.

A common price isn't the lowest price. It will most obviously be the highest price.

I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.

Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most part it's the other way around: companies must make what consumers want and deliver it at the lowest possible price.

Apple makes really good products, and Samsung makes really good products. It's really a two-horse race. Where I think Apple is exposed: the price points of Apple's products are just so high by comparison with Samsung's.

Things that price at $4.99 sell very differently than things that price at $5.

Every time you drop the price by a factor of two, you roughly get a 10 times pickup of the number of people who will seriously consider buying it.

My father used to administer herbal medicine for free. But I can't give drugs for free. So the next best thing is to give it at as low a price as possible.

When I started at Bloomingdale's as a buyer, Alexander's was a discounter across the street, and every time Alexander's had something that we had at Bloomingdale's, we'd have to meet price. I didn't really want to be in a business where I had no control over my inventory, the value of my inventory.

There are no issues more personal than prescription drugs and the high prices Americans must pay to get the medicine they need.

TSG is competing with Middle East, East Asia and Europe in offering prices that are either lower or at par with these markets.

Businesses are going to innovate in how they bring prices down so people can shop the way they want.

The key to the generic-drug economic model is to keep entry prices low enough to attract multiple competitors.

We will do all we can to try and keep prices from going up.

We basically built a pricing model that surgically identified what people wanted to pay us for and what they didn't want to pay us for. One of the things we figured out early on was that we could create value for people by creating a product that allowed them to design something that they couldn't design without us.