Quotes About Price

No one was talking about price decreases, but that does happen in the industry to keep medicine affordable.

No doubt Israel and America have made mistakes in the Middle East. Certainly, Israel was born at the price of considerable dislocation and suffering on the part of the Palestinians. And yes, there will never be a satisfying answer for this.

Fit and fabric are paramount. If the jacket fits, it doesn't matter what price you paid for it - you will look and feel fantastic.

In 1738, the Papers of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg carried an essay with this central theme: "the value of an item must not be based on its price, but rather on the utility that it yields.

If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings—assuming the company in question has earnings. As you'll see in this text, I subscribe to the crusty notion that sooner or later earnings make or break an investment in equities. What the stock price does today, tomorrow, or next week is only a distraction.

If suffering through four years of hellishly misguided big government is the price we pay for true reform, it may in the end be worth it.

When profit margins of a whole industry rise because of repeated price increases, the indication is not a good one for the long-range investor.

One, which I mention several times elsewhere, is the need for patience if big profits are to be made from investment. Put another way, it is often easier to tell what will happen to the price of a stock than how much time will elapse before it happens. The other is the inherently deceptive nature of the stock market. Doing what everybody else is doing at the moment, and therefore what you have an almost irresistible urge to do, is often the wrong thing to do at all.

The only true test of whether a stock is "cheap" or "high" is not its current price in relation to some former price, no matter how accustomed we may have become to that former price, but whether the company's fundamentals are significantly more or less favorable than the current financial-community appraisal of that stock.

That first year in L.A., Richard became addicted to cocaine. It was 1978, and coke was the "in" drug, selling for $100 per gram. This was prior to the Colombian cartels applying modern corporate techniques to the importation and distribution of cocaine in the States, which brought the price of a gram down to thirty-five dollars by the mid-eighties.

Take the price of oil, long a graveyard topic for forecasting reputations.

The value decade is upon us. If you can't sell a top-quality product at the world's lowest price, you're going to be out of the game . . . the best way to hold your customers is to constantly figure out how to give them more for less.—Jack Welch, Chairman, General Electric

Desire, desire! I have too dearly bought, With price of mangled mind, thy worthless ware.

The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays a price for clarity.

The Kitchen was a really great concept; it just wasn't at the price point that made it accessible to people. People could visit occasionally, and some people were coming regularly. It just wasn't a novel concept for every customer.

No sane person enjoys paying tax... money, after all, is a very nice thing to have. But it's the price we all pay for so many vital things in this country - and those of us lucky enough to have a bit more should be proud to be paying a little bit more as well.

One of my most vivid memories from 1974 was the gas station at the foot of the hill below my Southern California high school - car lines snaking out into the street, heralding the failure of the government's price controls and lame ideas such as odd-even rationing.

I do believe that oil production globally has peaked at 85 million barrels. And I've been very vocal about it. And what happens? The demand continues to rise. The only way you can possibly kill demand is with price. So the price of oil, gasoline, has to go up to kill the demand. Otherwise, keep the price down, the demand rises.

I am vocal and I have had to pay a huge price for that.

In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls. As a result, gold can be very volatile - upward and downward - at the peak of a crisis.

I've talked about commodity price volatility in the past: go back to the tape... I never said it was about inflation.

When one person has the ability to make one tweet and spiral the price of a particular asset at that level - you know, 10%-20% as opposed to 1% or 2% or 3%... You know, there's volatility in everything, there's volatility in commodities, there's volatility in dollars but not that kind of volatility.