Assumption Quote by William Eckhardt

The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to…

— Warren Buffett

People are always saying that prices are too high. When they turn out to be right, we anoint them. When they turn out to…

— Eugene Fama

The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to do business…

— Warren Buffett

The much-maligned price system works not only to secure supply but to conserve. [...] Profits and prices are the street signs of the economy.…

— Ilana Mercer

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

— Thomas Paine

My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it…

— Evan Davis

For many, perhaps most, Americans, markets are sacrosanct. Most people in the United States cannot even envision a society that doesn't revolve around an…

— Howard Gardner

“Prices are too high” is far from synonymous with “the next move will be downward.” Things can be overpriced and stay that way for…

— Howard Marks

Markets do very weird things because it reacts to how people behave, and sometimes people are a little screwy.

— Alan Greenspan

In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered to him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and…

— Edward Bernays

Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain.

— William Vickrey

Whatever is cheap became cheap by treating us badly in the past, but is priced to deliver superior returns.

— Robert D. Arnott