Overpricing Quotes

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

There's always a fine line between 'What is the market going to bear?' and, 'By the way, I've got 2,000 unsold seats.'

Anybody who has doubts about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.

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

The fact is that the College Board's products - the SAT, other standardized tests, the accompanying strategy guides - are sold at far higher than the cost to make them.

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

This mug of mine is as plain as a barn door. Why should people pay 35 cents to look at it?

Whenever you see the word cuisine used instead of the word food, be prepared to pay an additional eighty percent.

Why is it good for football to take the excitement away from fans by overcharging them for tickets to see their team?

I still believe in putting something out and not asking people to buy the record, then buy a ticket to my show and then buy a t-shirt and then a, like, copy of the show they just saw on CD. That's undignified to me.

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

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.

The internet in hotels should be free - and I really resent it when they charge you five dollars for a bottle of water beside your bed.

His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.

When I see a sneaker for over $400, for me, that's kind of brainless because it doesn't cost that much to make.

There was a story that I was in a shoe shop and that I threw a pair of flip flops at the wall, shouting, 'I can't believe how overpriced these are!' I thought, 'Gosh, if I'm gonna take a big stand on something I would hope it would be for more than flip flops!'