Buying Quotes

Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.

Real leaders like Lee Iacocca see vast possibilities and sell their dreams to their companies, their employees, their funding sources, their government and their buying public.

If you pay 50 million for something, you probably pay another 50 to 100 million to activate it. And the more you spend, the better you do. There is no point in just buying rights.

Avoid buying frozen dinners and processed foods, as they are often overloaded with salt.

Mr. President I am here to tell you we are not buying what you are selling in 2012.

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

Too many people are buying gifts for themselves when they pick out a gift for a friend.

Men have an easier time buying bathing suits. Women have two types: depressing and more depressing. Men have two types: nerdy and not nerdy.

After years of buying clothes I intend to diet into, I'll say this: the skeleton in my closet has some really nice outfits.

Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?

Stop buying things you don't need, to impress people you don't even like.

I love buying things. I could be one of those crazy hoarders.

Since I was 13, I've been buying things because they are ridiculously cheap.

If we didn't have the Chinese buying things, we'd be on the floor.

People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

You can't solve climate change by everybody individually buying a more efficient car and throwing out less stuff. You have to make national changes through national policy.

I love Cheetos, those hot, spicy kind. And chocolate. Every time I'm in the airport I'm buying Cheetos and eating them on the airplane.

And if you're not buying my dinnner or you think you fancy, you're not getting a date with The Miz!

The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up.

People ought to shop smart and really think about what they are buying.

For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart.

I kind of rely on my artist friends to make my physical music worth buying by having them all come together and create beautiful artwork that everyone is gonna want to own to support my record.

The larger the deductible you choose, the less insurance you are buying. Insurers want to sell insurance.

Of my investments that have been realised, buying my first house turned out to be a pretty good move, which I didn't really realise at the time.

If you're 20 years old, you've grown up without buying albums.

I've always taken risks and bought property well. As journalism wasn't particularly well paid, buying homes and selling them for profit improved my income.

No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.

I was buying old records a lot in my early teenage years and I was mostly drawn toward the artwork even more than the band itself. I loved the way the art set the scene for the music.

In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.

... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

...She's not buying [the lie], but there's nothing else on the shelves.

Many have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths.

Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company's announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring a counterfeiter.

The money thing is, the sort of Elvis Presley thing of buying you mother car is great, that's very good. My mother has learned how to spend money.

Then again, if the plant is slow growing, and you are getting older, you may want to start with a larger plant. I find myself buying larger plants each year.

I bought singles until I started working properly and then I started buying albums, so this brings back a lot of teenage memories from being in London before I got work

I think it's safe to say that 50% of the record buying metal community is people between the ages of 16 and 25 - people still in their teenage-angsty, early young-adult years.

When you're buying a pair of TOMS, if you don't feel like you're part of a community, then I've failed.

I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.

There are a lot of people, especially the younger generation who don't feel that they need to support the artists by buying their music because they grew up learning that record companies are evil.

Once you turn pro and you're making the big money and kids are buying your sneakers and your skates and your gloves and so on, you are a member of that role model club.

There's no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.

You're buying for the benefit of the cottage experience at a fraction of the price.

I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them.

I like buying iTunes. It's instant.

With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.

Fashion is not an investment. If you wear a dress and don't get many compliments, you won't wear it again. It's not like buying bonds.

I don't really spend money like crazy. I buy what I need and what I really want, and if I'm buying expensive things I do think about the purchase many times before I buy it.

It doesn't matter how good you are as a band or how good your music may be; if the fans aren't supporting it and buying your music, it's hard to make it.

I'm not making any money, but I view it as some sort of investment, or like buying myself a great present.