Quotes About Raising Prices

#1. Contrary to a popular impression, profits are achieved not by raising prices, but by introducing economies and efficiencies that cut costs of production.

Henry Hazlitt

#2. You could raise the price of, say, a bottle of ketchup to $1.03 instead of $1, and no one would know. Raising prices just 3% per product would add 50% to your pretax income. Why not do it? It's like heroin: You do a little and you want a little bit more. Raising prices is the easy way.

James Sinegal

#3. We ask from the heart that supermarkets, which are now more profitable and selling more, help us to take care of the pocketbook of the people by not raising prices.

Nestor Kirchner

#4. People were desperately trying to fill their seats for the summer. And so prices are really low right now. And so they are kept from raising prices to make up for that difference.

David Neeleman

#5. Eli: [whispering to Solara, after seeing the graves George and Martha made] We gotta go now.
Solara: They killed all these people.
Eli: Not just killed them, they ate them.
Solara: Her hands, her hands were shaking.
Eli: Too much human meat. Let's go.

Book Of Eli Movie

#6. If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.

Michael Moore

#7. This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs.

Paul Ryan

#8. I believe 100% when your heart & mind are in the right place and there is no pretense, great things will come. It's that simple!

Jimmy Wayne

#9. You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.

George Bernard Shaw

#10. As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier.

Rafael Nadal

#11. When you have competing companies that are engaging in the raising of prices in lock step with each other, you have to question whether or not this in coincidence or price fixing. With the merger of Exxon and Mobil and Chevron and Texaco, we have very little competition among the energy companies.

Jeanine Pirro

#12. The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent.

Joseph Hume

#13. ... still when I lost her, I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier, to some more populated or congenial life ...

Donna Tartt

#14. If all you needed to do is to figure out what company is better than others, everyone would make a lot of money. But that is not the case. They keep raising the prices to the point when the odds change.

Charlie Munger

#15. Living together aklone is hell between consenting adults.

Michel Houellebecq

#16. I was a black singer with a white voice, a perfect pop voice.

Brenda Holloway

#17. Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.

Michael Badnarik

#18. The present is swollen with self-regard for itself, but soon enough the present becomes the past. This present, this day, this very moment we inhabit--it all will be held accountable for the things it didn't know, didn't understand.

Laura Lippman

#19. Ten years ago he would have followed her, but middle-age is the period of sad caution.

Graham Greene

#20. With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and for months or sometimes years I'll exhaust all of my emotional reaction to this issue by making it enormous on the page.

Chuck Palahniuk

#21. My New Year's resolution is to cut my diet sodas down to two cans a day!

Eric Ripert

#22. The battle is fought and decided by the quartermasters, long before the shooting begins.

Erwin Rommel

#23. I trust that McDonald's can find a way to sell all-natural chicken without raising their prices; we did that at Shake Shack. It is more expensive, and we took a slight margin hit, but we did it. And if we can do it, I know that much bigger companies can.

Danny Meyer

#24. Before doing my first open mic, I was sitting in the back watching all these comedians banter back and forth and fire jokes and up each other, and I thought, 'This is where I wanna be.'

Patton Oswalt