Buying Quotes

When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.

Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes.

Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back to the company.

I was working at eBay, so I would just troll the vintage categories, find old amps and what have you. I was buying a fair amount of stuff and playing with it and then selling it back.

I very much believe in rescuing animals, not buying them.

Making love to a woman is like buying real estate: location, location, location.

Small wastebasket liners, $1.17 ... tall wastebasket liners, $2.29 ... garbage can liners, $3.98 ... I think I just spent $7.44 buying something I'm going to throw away.

If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out - either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time.

When I'm buying car insurance I ask myself, 'Which company has the most annoying and relentless commercials?'

A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back.

Why would you pour a foundation, buy machines, hire employees, if you can make as much money buying bonds?

It's still so rare for anyone to be personally acknowledged by a brand that the impact of such a simple, polite gesture on a customer's buying habits could be huge.

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

I spend far too much time on eBay buying lamps and upholstery remnants.

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.

Buying coffee on the street instead of in a Starbucks is the poor man's way to get rich. In other words, you will never get rich by scratching out ten cents from your dollar.

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.

Needless to say, I'll be buying my Irwin Tools at Lowe's.

Have you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give to the poor some alms which will exceed the profit you have made.

Gold is not overvalued at $500, and gold will not be overvalued at $1,500 or $2,000. The real money is buying gold and putting it away.

I am not a supporter of buying a national team.

By buying big - going narrow and deep, as opposed to a diversifying - you maximize your successes.

Being a parent and having two young kids, I buy Blu-rays and DVDs all the time. It's like buying a toy.

I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.

Sometimes buying the ugly work is the thing that you know you should do.

Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself.

Less is more. I truly believe in buying a few pieces with better construction.

Debt is not caused by spending, it is caused by buying things that you don't pay for. Or, it's caused by cutting revenues that you don't offset ... by cuts in spending.

If I see a movie star in the department store buying something, I'll kind of sidle up and see what they're saying, what they look like, how they sound. That's an invasion of privacy.

It is to our advantage to have securities do nothing price-wise for months, or perhaps years, while we are buying them.

I'm not just buying a car... I'm buying a lifestyle!

There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.

I'm not impulsive at all - except about buying clothes. That's my biggest weakness.

Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like that.

I blame all the craziness of people buying houses, re-doing them and selling them, on these programs on television where they are redoing your homes and kitchens.

One-hundred-ten years of history, great diversity, lots of new earnings drivers and I just became a grandpa - twins. And I'm buying JJ, Pfizer and Warner for their future college funds.

The impact on a customer of a bad buying decision is usually greater than the impact of a salesperson of a lost deal.

Buying a lie is one thing, giving it away for free is quite another.

If you have a choice between buying something and paying down your credit card, pay down your credit card.

I'm opening the doors, I'm buying dinner. Yeah, I'm romantic.

I have many creative outlets. I sing, I like music, I like art, I paint, I draw. I like buying art. I read a lot, too. I love books. And I'm working on a clothing line, too.

But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave.

Young people refuse the notion that financialization defines the only acceptable definition of exchange, one that is based exclusively on the reductionist notion of buying and selling.

Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public.

The more a prospective customer clicks on you and your stuff, the easier it is for them to make a buying decision in your favor.

Peace might sell, but who's buying?

Wealth is walking into any bookshop and buying any book you want without looking at the price tag.

Buying wine is a political act.

People think about, when you sell a million records, "Oh. You must be buying Ferrari's and living in mansions." It was never really like that.

I have a very big family and a lot of friends, and buying presents is one of my favorite things to do.