John Ruskin Quotes

I know the price of lettuce. You need to understand price and value. You buy the best lettuce you can at the best price you can.

My father told me 'Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.'

Value is what people are willing to pay for it.

Never fall in love with something when you're negotiating a price. Never decide you're going to buy something because you can't live without it. Negotiating to buy an item shouldn't be an emotional process.

You'd never look at a Rembrandt and say, 'That's just wood and canvas and paint - how much?!' It's all about how many people want it. It works on a pair of jeans as well - they're just material and stitching, and as soon as you walk out of the shop, they're worth nothing.

The buyer is entitled to a bargain. The seller is entitled to a profit. So there is a fine margin in between where the price is right. I have found this to be true to this day whether dealing in paper hats, winter underwear or hotels.

I priced my books at what I would want to spend on an electronic book.

A common price isn't the lowest price. It will most obviously be the highest price.

We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

That iPad you just bought. Do you care that it cost a few pence to manufacture? No. It's cost you several hundred pounds because somebody else was willing to pay that much for it. If they weren't... it wouldn't.

Everything is for sale if the price is right.

I don't like it when I see my books sold cheaply.

When will you learn that the time to buy a thing is when you find what you want? If you go back the next year and try to get more, they will try to sell you something else.

You have to put a market value on what you do.

The thing about the max is, you're worth whatever somebody is willing to pay you, in my mind.

Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.

PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it.

Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.

Value is not determined by those who set the price. Value is determined by those who choose to pay it.

I've argued with the senators and congressmen I've talked to. You don't want to be too little too late. If you buy them at the right price, you may be buying two trillion of face value.

The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim

Just curious how much I'm going for these days," Leo said. "I mean, I can understand not being as pricey as Percy or Jason, maybe...but am I worth, like, two Franks, or three Franks?

Money is really just an idea.

[F]or women, like tradesmen, draw in the injudicious to buy their goods by the high value they themselves set upon them.... They endeavor strongly to fix in the minds of their enamoratos their own high value, and then contrive as much as possible to make them believe that they have so many purchasers at hand that the goods--if they do not make haste--will all be gone.