Buying Quotes

• Buying is a profound pleasure.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Shopping, Profound, Pleasure

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• Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Life, Children, Humorous

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Oct 04, 2010

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• Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Thinking, Buying In

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.54, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Buying's easier, selling's hard - [it's] hard to know when to get out.

  Seth Klarman

  Selling, Easier, Knows

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• When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?

  Rene Rivkin

  Money, Investing, Wealth

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

  John Ruskin

  Reading, Book, Ifs

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.306, University of Virginia Press

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• Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

  Jean Kerr

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  Jean Kerr (1962). “The Snake Has all the Lines”

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• In writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the goods than the advertising writers because they have had experience in buying them.

  John Wanamaker

  Writing, Mind, Advertising

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• I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.

  Alexander McQueen

  Inspirational, Long, People

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• Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing Money, Talking, Quality

  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, 2008.

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• Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Time, Mistake, Book

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.51, Publishdrive

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• Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Men, Want

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• When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Witty, Funny Inspirational, Government

  P J O'Rourke (1992). “Parliament of Whores-Open Mark”, Vintage Books USA

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• Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Success, Money

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• Business is not financial science, it's about trading.. buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.

  Anita Roddick

  Business, Creativity, Ideas

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• Buy real records in real shops, or I'll come round your house and scream at your mother.

  Ian Gillan

  Funny, Mother, Real

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.

  Victor Papanek

  Order, People, Design

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• We can sell our time, but we can't buy it back.

  Paulo Coelho

  Time, Novelists, Selling

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 05, 2015

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• My idea of rich is that you can buy every book you ever want without looking at the price and you're never around assholes. That's the two things to really fight for in life.

  John Waters

  Life, Book, Fighting

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• You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

  Ross Lovegrove

  Inspirational, Creativity, Creating

  CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 24, 2008.

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• Nobody who bought a drill actually wanted a drill. They wanted a hole. Therefore, if you want to sell drills, you should advertise information about making holes – NOT information about drills!

  Perry Marshall

  Business, Entrepreneur, Want

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• Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.

  Charlaine Harris

  Book, Reading, Vacation

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• A book worth reading is worth buying.

  John Ruskin

  Book, Reading, Reader

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• Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.

  Anderson Cooper

  Children, Emotional, Firsts

  "Surviving the real estate game". Details Magazine, edition.cnn.com. August 2005.

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