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
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
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
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
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)
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))
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
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).
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
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[ ]
