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Confessions of the Pricing Man

Confessions of the Pricing Man: How Price Affects Everything
Author
Hermann Simon
Published
2015
Pages
236
Recommended
Once
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Why it’s on the list: Simon on pricing as the highest-leverage decision a company makes — value perception, price differentiation, and the consulting cases behind Simon-Kucher.

Where I saw it: In the reply thread to @WillManidis’s question, “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?” (June 2, 2025) — a crowd-sourced list Kyle recovered by hand and saved to his Apple Note “Books To Read”; the full set of replies lives on what is the single best book… (tweet). It was listed there as “Confessions of the Pricing Man”.

Connections

  • Pricing — The subject.
  • Competition — Where pricing decisions get made.
  • what is the single best book… (tweet) — the thread this recommendation came from.