Buyers Quotes - Page 3

• Mr. Market does not always price stocks the way an appraiser or a private buyer would value a business. Instead, when stocks are going up, he happily pays more than their objective value; and, when they are going down, he is desperate to dump them for less than their true worth.

  Benjamin Graham

  Doe, Investing, Pay

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• The revival of consumers saving their money for retirement - rather than expecting their homes to provide the cushion - added with 'move down' buyers will depress real-estate prices.

  David I. Rozenberg

  Depressing, Retirement, Real

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• We should never lose sight of the underlying essence of a market-a place where buyers and sellers come together. Every other feature-whether crafted by tradition or technology-exists only to serve that primary purpose.

  Arthur Levitt Jr

  Business, Technology, Sight

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• I'm an impulse buyer. I don't really go out with a list.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Lists, Impulse

  "My life in shopping". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2007.

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• Animal abusers are not the only culprits - the consumers are the biggest abusers! As long as buyers, users, attendees at animal performances, etc., keep using, abusers keep abusing!!!

  Adela Popescu

  Animal, Long, Etc

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• The general systems of money management today require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't. It's a funny business because on a net basis, the whole investment management business together gives no value added to all buyers combined. That's the way it has to work. Mutual funds charge two percent per year and then brokers switch people between funds, costing another three to four percentage points. The poor guy in the general public is getting a terrible product from the professionals.

  John C. Bogle

  Years, Two, People

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• (1) Never give anything away for nothing.
  (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait).
  (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.

  William S. Burroughs

  Giving, Waiting, Hungry

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• I suppose that one of the psychological principles of advertising is to so hammer the name of your product into the mind of the timid buyer that when he is confronted with a brusk demand for an order he can't think of anything else to say, whether he wants it or not.

  Robert Benchley

  Thinking, Order, Names

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• If I were a buyer today in one of the American department stores, I would go with extremes-the most beautiful, the more expensive, the more eccentric. I would take risks. The worst thing would be to buy only the little black dress. You know why? Because everyone has it already. I would go with a purple dress, something different

  Alber Elbaz

  Beautiful, Purple, Risk

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• Economists tell us that the 'price' of an object and its 'value' have very little or nothing to do with one another. 'Value' is entirely subjective economic value, anyway while 'price' reflects whatever a buyer is willing to give up to get the object in question, and whatever the seller is willing to accept to give it up. Both are governed by the Law of Marginal Utility, which is actually a law of psychology, rather than economics. For government to attempt to dictate a 'fair price' betrays complete misunderstanding of the entire process.

  L. Neil Smith

  Giving Up, Government, Law

  "Ceres". Book by L. Neil Smith, 2009.

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• Just like writers can have a lot of different styles, so can readers. It's hard to pigeonhole book buyers.

  Kevin Sampsell

  Book, Style, Different

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The purchase of a bargain issue presupposes that the market's current appraisal is wrong, or at least that the buyer's idea of value is more likely to be right than the market's. In this process the investor sets his judgement against that of the market. To some this may seem arrogant or foolhardy.

  Benjamin Graham

  Ideas, Issues, Judgement

  "The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing". Book by Benjamin Graham. Chapter II, The Investor and Stock-Market Fluctuations, p. 38, 1949.

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• I'm asking Congress to pass my Zero Down Payment Initiative. We should remove the 3 percent down payment rule for first time home buyers with FHA-insured mortgages.

  George W. Bush

  Zero, Home, Firsts

  President's Remarks to the National Association of Home Builders, Columbus, Ohio, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 02, 2004.

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• I can get any retail buyer on the phone with you and get them to verify that not a single retail location in America where there's a PlayStation 3 on the shelf for sale. They've all been sold in a matter of minutes.

  Jack Tretton

  Phones, America, Retail

  "CE-Oh no he didn't! Part XXIV - Jack Tretton wants to give you $1,200" by Paul Miller, www.engadget.com. February 9, 2007.

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• THE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM requires that prices be under effective control. And it seeks the greatest possible influence over what buyers take at the established prices.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Influence

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.273, Princeton University Press

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• Just been talking today out here to all the Senators investigating these stock swindles and overcapitalizations. There has been hundreds of millions lost. There ought to be some form of guardianship for people that buy all this junk. Education won't do it. The buyers are the ones we have educated up till they are just smart enough to fall for everything that comes along.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Smart, Fall

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• I argue with wife over what little pieces of real estate investments we should try to pay on and hold, and which to let go back. We always said, "Put it in land, and you can always walk on it." We did, but no buyers would walk on it with us.

  Will Rogers

  Letting Go, Real, Land

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• If you expect to be a net saver during the next 5 years, should you hope for a higher or lower stock market during that period? Many investors get this one wrong. Even though they are going to be net buyers of stocks for many years to come, they are elated when stock prices rise and depressed when they fall. This reaction makes no sense. Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise. Prospective purchasers should much prefer sinking prices.

  Warren Buffett

  Fall, Years, Next

  Chairman's Letter to the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. 1997.

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• And as in other things, so in men, not the seller, but the buyer determines the Price.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Determine, Sellers

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.133

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• No dealer, curator, buyer or critic, or any existing combination of these, can be depended on to produce a reputation that is more than a momentary flurry.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Recognition, Reputation, Curator

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• A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer's judgment.

  Pliny the Elder

  Reflection, Judgment, Dear

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• In all fairness to the auction companies ? most companies are not car experts, they are marketers. I caution buyers to make sure that they have done their homework before they raise their hand and not after.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Hands, Car, Auctions

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• Experience conclusively shows that index-fund buyers are likely to obtain results exceeding those of the typical fund manager, whose large advisory fees and substantial portfolio turnover tend to reduce investment yields. Many people will find the guarantee of playing the stock-market game at par every round a very attractive one. The index fund is a sensible, serviceable method for obtaining the market's rate of return with absolutely no effort and minimal expense.

  Burton Malkiel

  Yield, Games, People

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• I studied fashion at the London College of Fashion. I get involved in it as part of my own styling, so if I wasn't a pop star maybe a fashion buyer or a stylist.

  Rachel Stevens

  Fashion, Stars, College

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• Warranty – A notice telling the buyer when the product that was just purchased will no longer function.

  Richard Turner

  Function, Products, Warranty

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