Quotes About Pricing

#1. Seven pillars make or kill a brand,' says Goenka. 'Packaging, pricing, product, promotion, distribution, advertising, and margins to retailers. We ensure there is equal focus on all these aspects.

Nikhil Inamdar

#2. I think the main problem we have is the pricing of oil as it is now. I think it's wrong. It does not reflect the fundamentals of supply/demand.

Ahmed Zaki Yamani

#3. The sad truth is that it is precisely those who disagree most with the hypothesis of efficient market pricing of stocks, those who pooh-pooh beta analysis and all that, who are least able to understand the analysis needed to test that hypothesis.

Paul Samuelson

#4. I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.

Dan Glickman

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

Timothy Ferriss

#6. If you think safety is expensive, try pricing an accident, as the sign says.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#7. Briefly speaking, our conclusion is that stochastic volatility does not make a huge difference as far as the pricing is concerned if you get the average volatility right. It makes a big difference as far as hedging is concerned.

John Hull

#8. Value what you have today,
Rather than pricing it later ...

Adil Adam Memon

#9. The key here is not to pursue pricing against the competition within an industry but rather to pursue pricing against substitutes and alternatives across industries and nonindustries.

W.Chan Kim

#10. Meanwhile, Singapore has implemented an Electronic Road Pricing System that has virtually eliminated congestion. Americans collectively spend over one hundred billion hours stuck in traffic jams, a testament to the fact that road pricing is not yet widely adopted.

Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee

#11. FREE EXCHANGE Pricing the surge The microeconomics of Uber's attempt to revolutionise taxi markets 1014 words

Anonymous

#12. Investors covet past improvements but also always believe pricing unimaginable future creativity and efficiency gains is Pollyannaish. And they're always wrong. Bet on it.

Kenneth Fisher

#13. I'm cautious about the currency situation, oil pricing and the economies of some countries not performing as we are expecting.

Lakshmi

#14. There is no perfect mathematical formula for pricing a business.

Warren Buffett

#15. In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered to him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and chemically testing before purchasing, the dozens of soaps or fabrics or brands of bread which are for sale, economic life would become hopelessly jammed.

Edward Bernays

#16. Racing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the game.

Carroll Shelby

#17. If we look at pricing holistically, we'll create a more solid business.

Jochen Zeitz

#18. Whenever you have the kind of market that is taking shape now - a wildly volatile one with big pricing discrepancies - it plays right into the hands of managers who are very focused on research and stock picking.

James Russell Lowell

#19. A comprehensive national energy policy is critical to our nation's economy and our national security. Energy expenditures account for about 7% percent of our total economy and influence pricing in the much of the rest of the economy.

Heather Wilson

#20. You can't flood the market with every TV show, every reality show, and dump your library into the market all at one time and not have some kind of game plan in terms of pricing.

Bill Mechanic

#21. Transfer pricing is causing huge problems in Africa.

Mo Ibrahim

#22. It is one of history's great ironies that capitalists built decent and humane societies on the basis of an amoral approach to the economics of pricing, whereas socialists built exploitative and inhumane societies on the basis of a morally inflamed approach to economics.

Kevin D. Williamson

#23. Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing it. The technique of selling it.

Seth Godin

#24. Don't try to be all things to all people. Concentrate on selling something unique that you know there is a need for, offer competitive pricing and good customer service.

Lillian Vernon

#25. I'd much rather be worrying about playing that note in tune, and picking out the best way to arrange the song, rather than thinking about pricing for the download. It's not art.

Trent Reznor

#26. Pricing is actually a pretty simple and straight forward thing. Customers will not pay literally a penny more than the true value of the product.

Ron Johnson

#27. 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.

Lynne Truss

#28. If you're not worried that you're pricing it too cheap, you're not pricing it cheap enough.

Roy H. Williams

#29. Looking into it a bit, Jamie found that the model used by Wall Street to price LEAPs, the Black-Scholes option pricing model, made some strange assumptions.

Michael Lewis

#30. Avoid the Yes or No-and-Go scenario.Give more than one option for others to do business with you. Include packages or pricing options.

Lisa A. Mininni

#31. Because Genentech is a leading developer of cancer therapies, some doctors also fear that the company's pricing plans for Avastin - around $8,800 a month - may encourage other companies to charge more for their own oncology drugs.

Alex Berenson

#32. 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.

Michael Lewis

#33. If Americans could legally access prescription drugs outside the United States, then drug companies would be forced to re-evaluate their pricing strategy.

Chuck Grassley

#34. When the government gets involved in pricing, I don't think it's the right way to look at a business.

Jamie Dimon

#35. Connectivity doesn't just mean you get a lot more chances to deliver messages about customer service and pricing plans. This isn't one-sided. It enables people to talk back.

James Murdoch

#36. Employers who violate rules of fairness are punished by reduced productivity, and merchants who follow unfair pricing policies can expect to lose sales.

Daniel Kahneman

#37. One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It's a service issue,

Gabe Newell

#38. The lady across the hall tried to rob a department store ... with a pricing gun. She said, "Give me all of the money in the vault, or I'm marking down everything in the store."

Steven Wright

#39. My career in academic research has not been involved with active management of securities. I've tried to understand risk-and-return relationships; also the pricing of derivative securities.

Myron Scholes

#40. If you can buy the best companies, over time the pricing takes care of itself.

Charlie Munger

#41. Ford can't sell trucks currently, and GM is not selling as many cars as it would like to. That is a problem of product and pricing, not a systemic problem of abandonment by consumers.

Paul Taylor

#42. At the end of the day, if you have a great product and service paired with the wrong pricing strategy / business model, you don't have a business.

Richie Norton

#43. As I saw more and more people buying the images that were happy buyers, and people selling the images that were happy with how the market was pricing them, I started to get the sense this could be the go-to place for businesses to get the images they need.

Jon Oringer

#44. The natural model for music and anything else where the marginal costs of manufacturing and distribution are close to zero is variable pricing.

Chris Anderson

#45. You need to look no further than Apple's iPhone to see how fast brilliantly written software presented on a beautifully designed device with a spectacular user interface will throw all the accepted notions about pricing, billing platforms and brand loyalty right out the window.

Edgar Bronfman Jr.

#46. An awful lot of food is thrown away. This you can call a spillover. It doesn't sort of enter into our economic system because it's a consequence of running things in a highly competitive way: the free market, global pricing and so on.

John Sulston

#47. Wine pricing is an art - like painting.

Joe Bastianich

#48. Examples of selling of ideas are portrayed in consulting or paid advice, as the pricing of intellectual property is market driven.

Chuck Martin

#49. Where is the pricing system that offers the consumer a fair choice between air to breathe and motor cars to drive about in?

Joan Robinson

#50. Micropayments are great if you use them for a product or service with certain properties. It must be one where you can get away with usage-based pricing, and where there is a strong rationale for making it cheap, yet not free.

Nathan Myhrvold

#51. My principal contribution to the Black-Scholes option-pricing theory was to show that the dynamic trading strategy prescribed by Black and Scholes to offset the risk exposure of an option would provide a perfect hedge in the limit of continuous trading.

Robert C. Merton

#52. The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones.

Nouriel Roubini

#53. Product pricing is aligned to the way customers want to acquire their solutions and are delivered via different delivery models including appliances, the cloud, or as on-premise software solutions.

N. Robert Hammer

#54. Derivatives serve practically no purpose except to enrich bankers through opaque pricing and to deceive investors through off-the-balance-sheet accounting.

James Rickards

#55. Naming your packaged products helps call attention to how the deal is special. Call the product bundle a collector's set, a gift basket, or holiday set, and give each one a name; something like The Artisan's Selection or Your Name's Gift Set.

James Dillehay

#56. The quick and dirty formula is to add cost of materials plus cost of labor and then figure 25 percent of that to arrive at a number that will cover your overhead.

James Dillehay

#57. When adding descriptions to your online listings or printed materials, lead with benefits and follow with features.

James Dillehay