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 willisIt's no fish ye're buying it's men's lives.
walter scott"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 flowersAsk your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
fran lebowitzThe larger the deductible you choose, the less insurance you are buying. Insurers want to sell insurance.
andrew tobiasInstead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back into the company.
bill gatesThe 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 grahamWell, 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 barrettCredit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.
joyce brothersIf 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. brownFortunes made buying and selling securities have underwritten economic revolutions.
aaron c. brownTwenty 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.
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 farrellThere is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves.
Milton FriedmanHe 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 londonIt's no fish ye're buying, it's men's lives.
walter scott… 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 MontaigneThe 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.
Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.
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.