Julie Chen Quotes

Consumers are increasingly feeling that they are being taken for a ride.

Fraud is fraud. And consumers of any product - whether you want to buy a car, participate in fantasy football - our laws are very strong in New York and other states that you can't commit fraud.

There's nothing more damaging than an irate moviegoer who hasn't seen what the film trailer promised.

Predation is part of the everyday life of capitalism, in sectors as mainstream as pharmaceuticals, software and oil - where people's money, their data, their time and their attention are routinely taken in fundamentally asymmetrical exchanges.

Most Americans don't think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.

I've spent a lot of time trying to understand how all the big cosmetics companies get away with the placebo science and unscientific claims.

Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.

Most of what we know about sales comes from a world of information asymmetry, where for a very long time sellers had more information than buyers. That meant sellers could hoodwink buyers, especially if buyers did not have a lot of choices or a way to talk back.

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

I think everyone should sell whatever product they want to sell for whatever price they want to sell it for, but ultimately the market will dictate what it is and people will have to charge less money for everything. Record companies have been overcharging people for way too long and now this is the trouble that they're in.

People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they're going to make you believe you have to spend your money buying these products otherwise you won't be happy. This is really wrong. Especially the implication it carries.

Very, very rarely do you find bands underpricing.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

Price gouging for drugs that treat cancer in children is simply unconscionable.

You're not allowed to lure people into spending their money or betting their money based on false representations.

Cost-plus is an inefficient way to do things.

There is no reason that a cell phone should cost double in Israel what it does abroad.

I don't think that just because people will pay a certain amount for a ticket that it's all right to charge it.

People have been upset in the past about pay-per-view fights because they got sold a lie or an illusion that was not real.

People should know that the idea of legal fakes is a complete farce. It would be sad if a new generation thinks that's actually legit.

Our country has plenty of five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them.

Everybody has something to lose. You have points to lose. You have money to lose. You have opportunity to lose.

Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it's money. I guess the world really do change.

You can't charge for anything in Brazil.

That's part of the problem, the overkill. And when they make it complicated, they make it expensive and so then you can no longer stay in business.