Buying Quotes
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Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.
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More Buying Quotes
Under present conditions, people are preoccupied with consumer goods not because they are brainwashed but because buying is the one pleasurable activity not only permitted but actively encouraged by our rulers. The pleasure of eating an ice cream cone may be minor compared to the pleasure of meaningful, autonomous work, but the former is easily available and the latter is not. A poor family would undoubtedly rather have a decent apartment than a new TV, but since they are unlikely to get the apartment, what is to be gained by not getting the TV?
ellen willis— "Women and the Myth of Consumerism", Ramparts (1969)
It's no fish ye're buying it's men's lives.
walter scott— Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Chapter XI.
"If you have seen them live, they are incredibly boring. You remember what they used to look like? Then people started comparing them to us and suddenly they got a stylist," he said. "And Brandon frosted his hair and he's buying the cute pink jacket."
brandon flowers— "Lean Beef: The Killers Vs. The Bravery" (05/05/2005) from
— Bravery guitarist Michael Zakarin in response to Flowers disparaging comments.
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
fran lebowitz— "Parental Guidance"
The larger the deductible you choose, the less insurance you are buying. Insurers want to sell insurance.
andrew tobias— Chapter 9, Too Much Insurance, p. 155
Our growing affluence has allowed us to shift from being bargain shoppers buying branded (or even unbranded) commodities to becoming mini-connoisseurs, flexing our taste with a thousand little indulgences that sets us apart from others.
chris anderson— Introduction to the 2006 edition, p. 11
Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back into the company.
bill gates— Comment to reporters during the IBM PC launch (1981), interpreted as a jab at Gary Kildall
The chief obstacle to success lies in the stubborn fact that if the favorable prospects of a concern are clearly apparent they are almost always reflected already in the current price of the stock. buying such an issue is like betting on a topheavy favorite in a horse race. The chances may be on your side, but the real odds are against you.
benjamin graham— Chapter I, What the Intelligent Investor Can Accomplish, p. 14
Well, I've got a colour telly, and a fridge. I've got some pork chops in the fridge, but the chops keep going off, so I have to keep buying more.
syd barrett— In response to being asked by David Gilmour what he was up to lately during an unexpected reunion in 1975, as written in Nick Mason's Inside Out
Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.
joyce brothers— As quoted in On Being Blonde: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Most Infamous Blondes (2004) by Paula Munier, p. 69
If you want to understand financial markets, and their effects on the economy, you have to understand the trading game. Many short-term price movements are neither random nor caused by economic fundamentals. They're caused by investors buying and selling.
aaron c. brown— Chapter 1, The Art of Uncalculated Risk, p. 12
Fortunes made buying and selling securities have underwritten economic revolutions.
aaron c. brown— Chapter 4, A Brief History of Risk Denial, p. 82 (See also: Rothchilds..)
When you find that it fails to respond adequately to your buying you don't need any better tip to sell.
edwin lefèvre— Chapter XXI, p. 249
Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging.
merlin mann
Twenty years from now, when space travel is likely to become mundane like airline travel today, we don't want to be buying travel tickets on other people's space vehicles.
— Quoted in Pallava Bagla, "India's growing strides in space,", BBC News (2008-04-30)
A newspaper reported I spend $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn’t spend that much unless I wore sable underwear.
jacqueline kennedy onassis— The New York Times (15 September 1960)
It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.
john jay chapman— Chapter 1 (Practical Agitation (1900))
As long as society tells men to be the salespersons of sex, it is sexist for society to put only men in jail if they sell well. We don’t put other salespersons in jail for buying clients drinks and successfully transforming a “no” into a “maybe” into a “yes.” If the client makes a choice to drink too much and the “yes” turns out to be a bad decision, it is the client who gets fired, not the salesperson.
warren farrell— p. 321. (Part III: Government as substitute husband)
There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves.
Milton Friedman— From Who protects the consumer?, an episode of the PBS Free to Choose television series (1980, vol. 7 transcript)
The Gothick girl regarded Bobby with mild interest but no flash of human recognition whatever, as though she were seeing an ad for a product she’d heard of but had no intention of buying.
william ford gibson— Ch. 6 (Count Zero (1986))
He lacked the wisdom, and the only way for him to get it was to buy it with his youth; and when wisdom was his, youth would have been spent buying it.
jack london— "A Piece of Steak" in The Best Short Stories of Jack London (1962) ISBN 0-449-30053-6
If people keep buying poorly designed products, manufacturers and designers will think they are doing the right thing and continue as usual.
donald norman— Ch. 1, p. 8
It's no fish ye're buying, it's men's lives.
walter scott— Volume I, Ch. 11.
… I have seen books made of things neither studied nor ever understood … the author contenting himself for his own part, to have cast the plot and projected the design of it, and by his industry to have bound up the fagot of unknown provisions; at least the ink and paper his own. This may be said to be a buying or borrowing, and not a making or compiling of a book.
Michel de Montaigne— Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Book III, Chapter XII.
The major vehicle of for the transition to the capitalist mode of production was the textile industry of eighteenth - century England. In cloth production mercantile wealth was visibly transformed into capital , as it acquired the dual function of purchasing machines and raw materials, on the one hand, and buying human energy to power their operation on the other.
— Eric Wolf Europe and the People Without History (1982) Chapter 9, Industrial Revolution, p. 267
Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.
— New York American by Arthur Baer
Twenty years from now, when space travel is likely to become mundane like airline travel today, we don't want to be buying travel tickets on other people's space vehicles.
— Quoted in Pallava Bagla, "India's growing strides in space,", BBC News (2008-04-30)
