Buying Quotes
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Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.
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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
It always seems to me that one of the saddest things about the death of a literary man is the fact that the breaking-up of his collection of books almost invariably follows; the building up of a good library, the work of a lifetime, has been so much labour lost, so far as future generations are concerned. Talent, yes, and genius too, are displayed not only in writing books but also in buying them, and it is a pity that the ruthless hammer of the auctioneer should render so much energy and skill fruitless.
stuart dodgson collingwood— The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898) p. 136
Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine. I think of it as my own personal bride's disease.
Nora Ephron— Crazy Salad Plus Nine (1984)
I'd much rather have the consumer buy a Wii, some accessories, and a ton of games, vs. buying any of my competitor's products.
reggie fils-aime— Source: USA Today: Nintendo hopes Wii spells wiiner
— In reference to a suggestion by Microsoft's Peter Moore that one could buy a Wii and an Xbox 360 for the price of a PlayStation 3
Of course, shedding the debt burden would be a happy development for our country, but it would nevertheless pose a big dilemma for the Fed. Our primary lever of monetary policy was buying and selling treasury securities-Uncle Sam's IOU's. But as the debt was paid down, those securities would grow scarce, leaving the Fed in need of a new set of assets to effect monetary policy.
Alan Greenspan— Chapter Ten, "Downturn", p. 214
for those who are interested in buying something and continuting to support the scholarship, i will have an online store open this week featuring whatever is still for sale--but remember that quantities are very limited. -m
mike shinoda— LP/FM MB 2006
For a generation of customers used to doing their buying research via search engine, a company’s brand is not what the company says it is, but what Google says it is.
chris anderson— Ch. 7, p. 99
Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that “Price is what you pay; value is what you get.” Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.
warren buffett— 2008 Chairman's Letter
The investor is neither smart not richer when he buys in an advancing market and the market continues to rise. That is true even when he cashes in a goodly profit, unless either (a) he is definitely through with buying stocks an unlikely story or (b) he is determined to reinvest only at considerably lower levels. In a continuous program no market profit is fully realized until the later reinvestment has actually taken place, and the true measure of the trading profit is the difference between the previous selling level and the new buying level.
benjamin graham— Chapter II, The Investor and Stock-Market Fluctuations, p. 24
The investor has a right to expect good results to flow from a consistent and courageous application of the principle of buying after the market has declined substantially and selling after it has had a spectacular rise. But he cannot expect to reduce this principle to a simple and foolproof formula, with profits guaranteed and no anxious periods.
benjamin graham— Chapter II, The Investor and Stock-Market Fluctuations, p. 33
The reader can test his own psychology by asking himself whether he would consider, in retrospect, the selling at 156 in 1925 and buying back at 109 in 1931 was a satisfactory operation. Some may think that an intelligent investor should have been able to sell out much closer to the high of 381 and to buy back nearer the low of 41. If that is your own view you are probably a speculator at heart and will have trouble keeping to true investment precepts while the market rushes up and down.
benjamin graham— Chapter II, The Investor and Stock-Market Fluctuations, p. 34
The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and it might not be successful.
steve jobs— As quoted in "Steve Jobs: The Rolling Stone Interview" in Rolling Stone (3 December 2003)
See here, if a simple act of kindness or generosity, such as buying a loaf of bread for some poor working women, can mean that wholesale death and destruction will be avoided why, a man would be a monster who had it in his power to alleviate all that suffering yet stood by and did nothing.
stephen r. lawhead— p. 65 (The Skin Map (2010))
The rub here is that buying when prices are low is always a very scary proposition. The low prices that produce high future returns are not possible without catastrophe and risk.
— Chapter 1, No Guts, No Glory, p. 12 (The Four Pillars of Investing (2002))
When you find that it fails to respond adequately to your buying you don't need any better tip to sell.
— Chapter XXI, p. 249 (Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923))
Somewhere in the past. organizations were quite simple, and 'doing business' consisted of buying raw material from suppliers, converting into products, and selling it to customers... For the most part owner-entrepreneurs founded such simple business and worked along with members of their families. The family-dominated business still accounts for a large portion of the business start today.
— R. Edward Freeman (2007) Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach p.5
The maxim of buying nothing without the money in our pocket to pay for it, would make of our country one of the happiest upon earth. Experience during the war proved this; as I think every man will remember that under all the privations it obliged him to submit to during that period he slept sounder, and awaked happier than he can do now. Desperate of finding relief from a free course of justice, I look forward to the abolition of all credit as the only other remedy which can take place.
— Thomas Jefferson, letter to Alexander Donald, July 28, 1787. — The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd, vol. 11, p. 633 (1955).
He's here, he's queer, I'm buying him a beer!
— Alexander, in Queer as Folk (Negative)
Women aren't embarrassed when they buy men's pajamas, but a man buying a nightgown acts as though he were dealing with a dope peddler.
— In 20,000 Quips & Quotes, p.480 (Anonymous)
Yeah... I wasn't really buying those theories either... worth a shot, tho...
— Who: The Oracle
— Source: Order of the Stick
— Note: Character had claimed that Belkar had killed Roy, Miko and Windstriker, thus validating his answering yes to Belkar's asking whether he would kill any of the three, Vaarsuvius or the Oracle. In actuality, Belkar played a very small role in the events leading up to their respective deaths, but the Oracle claimed it was the same as actually killing them. While Belkar had wanted a refund, he realizes that part of the oracle's prophecy could come true, and kills him. Character says this line before dying from being stabbed. He is resurrected mere moments later after Belkar leaves by a pre-arranged arrival of two powerful spellcasters.
"As I cannot kill, I cannot authorize others to kill. Do you see? If you are buying from a butcher you are authorizing him to kill – to kill helpless, dumb creatures which neither you nor I could kill ourselves."
— Paul Troubetzkoy, quoted in Vegetarian Food for Thought[ ]
