Mary Wilson Little Quotes

It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce.

Value is what people are willing to pay for it.

If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.

Value-first is a perception. If your customer does not perceive it as value, then it's not very valuable.

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

The value of an item - in the mind of a consumer - is simply the difference between the anticipated price and the price on the tag.

Customers often value a good more when its price goes up. One reason may be its signaling value. An expensive handcrafted mechanical watch may tell time no more accurately than a cheap quartz model; but, because few people can afford one, buying it signals that the owner is rich.

We're going to make the product as good as we can, and we're going to try to put it out as reasonably priced as we can. We don't want a $600 shirt. We want a shirt which is around $100.

I never confuse the cost of something with its value

Understand the acute difference between the cost of something and the value of something.

Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase.

What is aught but as 'tis valued?

I'd like to start off this show by asking you all a question, cause I don't know the answer. Uh, I lost my sunglasses and yesterday I went to the Sunglass Hut. Here's the question: Why does a pair of sunglasses cost more than a 25-inch color television set? I go to the Sunglass Hut. I see a pair that I like. I don't love them. I don't. I like 'em. $309.

Value is not intrinsic, it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment. Neither is value in words and doctrines, it is reflected in human conduct. It is not what a man or groups of men say about value that counts, but how they act.

There are sneakers that cost more than an iPod.

Many priceless things can be bought.

Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.

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

In the domain of pharmaceuticals, we need a metric for health impact, and with this metric we can then assess the value of the introduction of a new product and pay its innovator accordingly, say on the basis of the product's measured health impact during its first ten years on the market. In exchange, innovators must of course renounce the usual rewards they are otherwise entitled to, namely the patent-protected markup on the price of their product.

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

Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.

People will pay for great services. They said they wouldn't pay 99 cents for a song but they did. We've always believed that. When you go to work, you don't work for free; nobody works for free. Nobody can say, "I want to work for free." Nobody says that.

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'

A conventional valuation which is established as the outcome of the mass psychology of a large number of ignorant individuals is liable to change violently as the result of a sudden fluctuation of opinion due to factors which do not really make much difference to the prospective yield; since there will be no strong roots of conviction to hold it steady.

The man that put that hurt look in your eyes, could be worth everything, or nothing at all.