Quotes About Market

Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't often make up a writer's main body of work, and that's not because they don't see the market for it.

The lack of portability and competition has long been a problem in America's insurance market, yet Obamacare took no significant steps to open up the market between state lines.

Selling public property is the true Chicago way. Had Mr. Obama not been elected president, the nation's business journals would be falling over one another to praise his city for its daring, market-friendly innovations.

Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense.

And although they like to fancy themselves rugged individualists (better yet, the last of the rugged individualists), what they really are is a personality type that our society generates so predictably and in such great numbers that they almost constitute a viable market segment all on their own. One more thing about the backlash personality type: every single one of the bitter self-made men of my youth was a believer in the power of positive thinking.

We're not big fans of focus groups. We don't much care for traditional market research either. We go to the source. Not the "experts" inside a company, but the actual people who use the product or something similar to what we're hoping to create.

The last of us could be the very best of us who ever roamed the earth, the great exemplars of a humanity we used to dream of becoming before we got wise to the reality that we are just a mob always in the market for new recruits.

What are the present governments of Europe, but a scene of iniquity and oppression? What is that of England? Do not its own inhabitants say, It is a market where every man has his price, and where corruption is common traffic, at the expense of a deluded people? No wonder, then, that the French Revolution is traduced.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.

Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.

There is no rule for market segmentation or market targeting. Do so in a way that makes sense for your environment. Do so in a manner that gives you the best information for your decision making needs.

Many Saudis are deal-making opportunists who will invest anything to make large, quick profits with minimal effort, and get rid of their business at the first sign of a declining market.

Capitalism forces nations to compete for market shares, natural resources, and human capital. Less obvious so, they also compete for names, brands, and terminologies.

There's no question: the finance market is moving into the cloud.

There's no question that technology is extraordinarily competitive.

I'm hesitant to ascribe too much to luck because I think women have a bad habit of doing that. At the same time, there's no question that I entered the market at the right moment.

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.

It's no secret that anybody who knows the music business knows that the numbers are substantially different in Christian music than they are in country music.

When Chrome launched, it was not a high point for Firefox. There's no secret about that.

Food is a noble thing to trade.

Apple is a failure because they missed social? Nobody would say that, because they are having great success.

Imagine maintaining 70 brands in a digital world - it is a nonsense. It is better to focus on a fewer, more distinct brands.