Quotes and Sayings about Buying
"I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery."
- Gianni Agnelli
(Related: Buying, Credit)
"Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist."
- Robert G. Allen
(Related: Buying)
"My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy."
- Pamela Anderson
(Related: Work, Buying, Relaxation, Shops, Therapy)
"People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me."
- Adam Ant
(Related: Time, People, Buying, Company, Want, Wrong)
"Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations."
- Jane Asher
(Related: Business, Home, People, Buying, Fun, Now)
"If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice."
- Norman Ralph Augustine
(Related: Selling, Advice, Buying, Experts)
"Some people really trip on success or popularity. My friends would talk to me about that, about tripping on all this stuff, but you know what I tripped on? I started buying property."
- Roy Ayers
(Related: Success, People, Buying, Friends, Popularity, Property, Talk)
"You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music."
- Randy Bachman
(Related: Change, Music, People, Buying)
"Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse."
- Arthur Baer
(Related: Buying)
"In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally."
- Jim Balsillie
(Related: America, Buying)
"Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets."
- Maria Bartiromo
(Related: Power, Selling, Americans, Buying, Credit, Today)
"Buying is a profound pleasure."
- Simone de Beauvoir
(Related: Buying, Pleasure)
"Unless they're a fugitive or a felon, or adjudicated mentally ill, we're not against them buying guns at all."
- Sarah Brady
(Related: Buying)
"It's all right buying all these good players but they've got to gel, and that takes time."
- Eric Bristow
(Related: Time, Buying, Right)
"Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after."
- Joyce Brothers
(Related: Being, Buying, Credit, Day)
"When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?"
- Jerry Brown
(Related: Food, Selling, Buying, Name)
"Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture."
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
(Related: Buying, Old)
"Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed."
- Craig Bruce
(Related: Money, Work, People, Buying)
"I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect."
- Sandra Bullock
(Related: Building, Buying, Want)
"I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing."
- Jim Carrey
(Related: Buying, Colors, Running, Therapy)
"You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk."
- Ron Chernow
(Related: People, Fear, Buying, Risk, Want, Will)
"Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another."
- John Clayton
(Related: Time, God, Christian, Appreciation, Being, Buying, Giving, Thanksgiving, World)
"I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them."
- Kent Conrad
(Related: Strategy, Buying, Gain, Leaders, Old, Support, Trade, World)
"After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world."
- Calvin Coolidge
(Related: Business, People, Selling, American, Buying, World)
"This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling."
- Hernando Cortes
(Related: Selling, Buying, Public)
"The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do deserve to lose money."
- Jim Cramer
(Related: Money, People, Buying)
"Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money."
- Mackenzie Crook
(Related: Money, Buying, Now, Worth)
"I told my mom, 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said, "Miley, you are the girl on the cover,' and I was, like, 'I know, but I don't feel like that girl every day.' You can't always feel perfect."
- Miley Cyrus
(Related: Mom, Thought, Buying, Day, Past)
"Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial."
- Frank Dane
(Related: Time, Money, Buying, Talking)
"Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me."
- Glenn Danzig
(Related: Music, Buying, Friends, Walking)
"Here is my general approach to the energy companies. You have already charged the utilities a 50 percent credit penalty for the power they were buying from you. You're charging us a penalty. You're not going to get two bites of the apple here."
- Gray Davis
(Related: Power, Buying, Credit, Energy)
"So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!"
- Nigel Dennis
(Related: Buying, Debt, Painting, Years)
"Being stuck in airports, you always end up buying perfume and sunglasses."
- Lexa Doig
(Related: Being, Buying, End)
"Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight."
- Daniel Drew
(Related: Buying, Cows, Man)
"And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film."
- Jenna Elfman
(Related: Buying, Film, Television)
"Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine."
- Nora Ephron
(Related: Buying)
"One of the commitments that I personally have now is to a diverse approach to buying businesses, and the operation of those businesses."
- Julius Erving
(Related: Buying, Now)
"A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it."
- William Feather
(Related: Buying)
"The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step."
- Calista Flockhart
(Related: Buying, Pretty)
"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Selling, Buying, Man, Pleasure)
"George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that?"
- Brendan Fraser
(Related: Buying, Day, Jungle)
"A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions."
- John Kenneth Galbraith
(Related: Buying, Emotions)
"We discussed buying a defender. The view was the priority at that time given the way we were playing was that we needed support up front and that is why we bought Louis Saha."
- David Gill
(Related: Time, Buying, Support)
"The buying of time or space is not the taking out of a hunting license on someone else's private preserve but is the renting of a stage on which we may perform."
- Howard Luck Gossage
(Related: Time, Buying, Hunting, May, Space)
"The problem with the auto industry is layered upon the lack of consumer confidence. People are not buying cars. I don't care whether they're or American cars, or international cars."
- Jennifer M. Granholm
(Related: People, American, Buying, Care, Confidence)
"Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious - they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you."
- Richard Hatch
(Related: People, Buying, Colors, Marketing)
"Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student."
- Patricia Heaton
(Related: Buying, College, Friends, Kids, Living, Sales)
"In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations."
- Arthur Henderson
(Related: War, Buying, Nations, State, Wage, World)
"We're constantly buying airplane tickets; we travel on the Concorde."
- Eva Herzigova
(Related: Travel, Buying)
"I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him."
- Robyn Hitchcock
(Related: Buying)
"Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad."
- George Jones
(Related: Music, Artists, Buying, Country, Country music, Fans, Support, Will)
"I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition."
- Chief Joseph
(Related: Men, War, Buying)
"A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit."
- Herman Kahn
(Related: Government, Attention, Buying, Decisions, Will)
"Whenever you're successful you owe that success to the people in the community, because they are the ones buying your product."
- Carl Karcher
(Related: Success, People, Successful, Buying, Community)
"Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house."
- Jean Kerr
(Related: Love, Time, Home, Buying, Man, May)
"Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way."
- David Korten
(Related: Power, People, Selling, Buying, Capitalism, Choices)
"It's not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we've given them the right incentive to perform."
- Henry Kravis
(Related: Management, Buying, Company, Right)
"I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle."
- Barbara Kruger
(Related: Life, Buying, Living)
"But the real focus should be on people who are buying today because the base is so big it will take a long time for any change materialize on an overall basis."
- Sanjay Kumar
(Related: Change, Time, People, Buying, Focus, Today, Will)
"It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office."
- Alan Ladd
(Related: Money, Time, People, Buying, Office, Personality, Right)
"In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings."
- Norman Lear
(Related: Leadership, People, Buying, Will)
"Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying."
- Fran Lebowitz
(Related: Buying)
"Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little."
- Sol LeWitt
(Related: Art, Work, Books, Buying)
"I was raised in California, so this whole New York winter thing is completely new for me. I've already justified buying seven coats!"
- Blake Lively
(Related: Buying, Winter)
"My mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying!"
- Lindsay Lohan
(Related: First, Instinct)
"For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there."
- Miriam Makeba
(Related: Buying, Fighting)
"Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse."
- Groucho Marx
(Related: Buying)
"A whole new generation is looking at the videos, and going to the video shop and buying the re-release of the complete trilogy, which you can buy at a reasonable price."
- Peter Mayhew
(Related: Buying)
"Basically what they're saying is, if you want to be on TV, if you want to be a credible candidate, you've got to buy ads. And if you're not buying ads, you're not a credible candidate, we don't cover you."
- Robert McChesney
(Related: Buying, Saying, Want)
"I was in Tower Records in San Francisco a few weeks ago, buying some cassettes, and a couple of people recognized me and ran up with albums, and I just wanted to cover my face and have a seizure or something. I want people to just go away."
- Christine McVie
(Related: People, Buying, Want)
"When you're buying real growth and want real performance, you buy excellent management and good products and you diversify across industry sectors."
- Robert Morse
(Related: Growth, Management, Performance, Buying, Want)
"Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it."
- Frank Muir
(Related: Strategy, Buying, Lady, Wine)
"It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media."
- Bill Mumy
(Related: Age, Money, Work, Buying, Media)
"Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection."
- Bill Mumy
(Related: Age, Books, Buying, Country, Fortune, Old)
"Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money?"
- Ogden Nash
(Related: Funny, Life, Money, Buying)
"But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock."
- Don Nickles
(Related: Failure, Buying)
"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."
- P. J. O'Rourke
(Related: Selling, Buying, First, Legislation, Legislators)
"But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave."
- Gilbert Parker
(Related: Buying, Joy)
"I'm afraid of buying a house or anything, 'cause if there's one paparazzi outside for one day, then they'll never leave."
- Robert Pattinson
(Related: Buying, Day)
"The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up."
- Alexandra Paul
(Related: Car, Change, Government, People, Buying, Habits, Will)
"We can serve our customers well only if our buying jobs are right. You cannot sell if you haven't ordered wanted goods into your store."
- James Cash Penney
(Related: Buying, Jobs, Right)
"Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public."
- James Cash Penney
(Related: Success, Buying, Public, Will)
"I think we did a great job of putting together a program that would have made good e-books available had people been buying e-books in any real numbers."
- Thomas Perry
(Related: People, Buying, Job, Numbers)
"The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange."
- William Petty
(Related: Selling, Banks, Buying, Interest, Trade)
"There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a subway that runs through downtown."
- Michael Ritchie
(Related: Business, Development, Buying, Restaurants)
"When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?"
- Rene Rivkin
(Related: Buying, Company)
"But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them."
- Oscar Robertson
(Related: People, Buying)
"Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record."
- Nile Rodgers
(Related: Business, Music, Buying, Entertainment, Fool)
"The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt."
- Jim Rogers
(Related: Buying, Company, Will)
"I think the big force is going to be consumer buying power."
- Roy Romer
(Related: Power, Buying, Force)
"A book worth reading is worth buying."
- John Ruskin
(Related: Buying, Reading, Worth)
"Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
(Related: Time, Books, Buying)
"I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write."
- Sam Shepard
(Related: Time, Work, Act, Buying, Horses, Writer)
"I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention."
- Bruce Springsteen
(Related: Imagination, Attention, Buying, Curiosity, Name)
"I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters."
- Sylvester Stallone
(Related: Art, Buying, Want)
"Whether you've done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it's just a matter of not reading it, not buying into it, and hopefully the people that do read it realise that it's just fictional stories for entertainment."
- Holly Valance
(Related: People, Buying, Entertainment, Reading, Want, Will, Wrong)
"What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty."
- Bob Verdi
(Related: Buying)
"The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible."
- Gore Vidal
(Related: Money, Buying, Pleasure)
"Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable."
- Tony Visconti
(Related: Death, Music, Buying, Culture, Public, Responsibility)
"A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not."
- Len Wein
(Related: Work, Buying, Writer)
"I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant."
- Esther Williams
(Related: Buying)
"Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?"
- Roy H. Williams
(Related: Money, Buying)
"Unfortunately, in collective bargaining one party or the other too often tries to gain an advantage - a bargain, like buying something in a store for less than it is worth."
- Charles E. Wilson
(Related: Bargain, Buying, Party, Worth)
"I just want to thank all my fans for their loyalty and support-for coming out to the shows and buying the CDs."
- Edgar Winter
(Related: Buying, Fans, Loyalty, Support, Want)
"I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator."
- Steven Wright
(Related: Buying, Clothes)
"There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans."
- Angus Young
(Related: People, Buying, Cute, Dogs)