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• I was kind of ashamed of my bourgeois family as a teenager, I guess - I had dreadlocks, shopped in thrift stores and pretended I had no money. At that time, I would have spat on a girl who was buying Yves Saint Laurent.

  Lou Doillon

  Girl, Teenager, Saint

  "How I get dressed". Interview with Lauren Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2008.

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• I'm an advocate for buying few, but very good quality pieces of clothing, and if you do that you need to take care of them.

  Patrick Grant

  Quality, Needs, Pieces

  "Recognize Craftsmanship". Interview with Daniel Barna, www.askmen.com.

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• Our focus is on the forward end of things: the customer and what does he want to do? If you're buying underwear and household items ladders and everything else - I buy all sorts of stuff on Amazon Prime - why shouldn't I buy this? Any legal document, contract or otherwise, that prevents me from doing that, I don't want to be a part of.

  Gerry Lopez

  Focus, Ladders, Want

  Source: deadline.com

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• If you ask me what I think people should be getting next season, I’ll tell you what I’d like them to buy—nothing. I’d like people to stop buying and buying and buying.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Thinking, People, Next

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• The idea that when people see prices falling they will stop buying those cheaper goods or cheaper food does not make much sense. And aiming for 2 percent inflation every year means that after a decade prices are more than 25 percent higher and the price level doubles every generation. That is not price stability, yet they call it price stability. I just do not understand central banks wanting a little inflation.

  Paul Volcker

  Fall, Mean, Years

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• Many investors make the mistake of buying high and selling low while the exact opposite is the right strategy to outperform over the long term.

  John Paulson

  Mistake, Opposites, Long

  "Paulson Still a Bull After His Bare Year" by Gregory Zuckerman and Steve Eder, www.wsj.com. September 19, 2011.

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• Ask any real estate broker to name the three most important factors in buying a property, and he'll say: "Location, location, location." Now ask him to name the chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, and he'll say: "Location, location, location." This tells us that we should not necessarily be paying a whole lot of attention to real estate brokers.

  Dave Barry

  Real, Names, Justice

  Dave Barry (2010). “Homes and Other Black Holes”, p.11, Ballantine Books

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• Democracy is buying a big house you can't afford with money you don't have to impress people you wish were dead. And, unlike communism, democracy does not mean having just one ineffective political party; it means having two ineffective political parties.

  Johnny Carson

  Party, Mean, Two

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• I think it's a terrible mistake to only think in terms of a degree "buying" you something.

  Rebecca Mead

  Mistake, Thinking, Degrees

  "Ask the Author Live: Rebecca Mead". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2010.

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• Even if you're starting from scratch and buying a new wardrobe, preppy clothes are very fairly priced compared to high fashion. They're very easy to absorb into your wardrobe. You probably already have stuff you can wear and there's a safety factor. You're dressed for success, in a way, if you look like you grew up with success.

  Lisa Birnbach

  Fashion, Clothes, Safety

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• I have been interested in the 12th century since my 20s when it was very fashionable to say of anybody with whom you disagreed, which was basically anybody over the age of 30, "One of the great minds of the 12th century", and one day I thought, "I don't know anything about the 12 century." So I started buying books, reading about it, and I discovered it was a period of great flowering, it was a Renaissance before what we think is the Renaissance, the Italian Renaissance of the 16th century.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Book, Reading, Italian

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• If you really want to make a difference for the customer, so what you have got to do is to make sure the products that you're bringing down in price are ones that they are buying every day.

  Ian McLeod

  Differences, Making A Difference, Want

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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

  Andy Summers

  Years, Albums, Old You

  Source: collider.com

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

  Ryan Gander

  Ugly, Sometimes, Should

  "Art-Advising in 3 Acts". Interview with Alexandra Pechman, www.vulture.com. December 19, 2014.

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• They know not how many things are signified by the words stealing, sowing, buying, keeping quiet, seeing what ought to be done; for this is not effected by the eyes, but by another kind of vision.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Eye, Vision, Sowing

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.36, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Truth is the pearl without price. One cannot obtain truth by buying it-all you can do is to strive for spiritual truth and when one is ready, it will be given freely. Nor should spiritual truth be sold, lest the seller be injured spiritually. You lose any spiritual contact the moment you commercialize it. Those who have the truth would not be packaging and selling it, so anyone who is selling it, really does not possess it.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Doe, Packaging

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.30, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• If you don't have a plan for what you want, then you will probably find yourself buying into someone else's plan and later find out that was not the direction you wanted to go. You've got to be the architect of your life.

  Jim Rohn

  Finding Yourself, Want, Architect

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• We've been trying to sell out for years, nobody's buying!

  Jerry Garcia

  Years, Trying, Sells

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• During the offseason, I go to the movies almost every day. You hear about women buying shoes? I buy DVDs. I definitely have a problem.

  Derek Jeter

  Shoes, Dvds, Problem

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• The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be. Before people making a buying decision, they have many questions. For example, why they should buy from you, why your product is better than other similar products, why they should trust you, and why they should buy it now, etc.

  David Ogilvy

  People, Decision, Example

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• Democracy is buying a big house you can't afford with money you don't have to impress people you wish were dead.

  Johnny Carson

  People, House, Democracy

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• I believe we may lessen the danger of buying and selling votes, by making the number of voters too great for any means of purchase. I may further say that I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Honesty, Believe, Mean

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.171, Cambridge University Press

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• If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Nice, Black, Would Be

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• One of the keys to success is an unflinching belief that there are no rules. Anyone who's ever succeeded has gone on that premise; not buying established procedures, business or otherwise. The naysayers are inevitably left behind amid shouts of 'it cannot be done' and "should not be done'."

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Keys, Gone, Done

  Anton Szandor LaVey (1998). “Satan Speaks!”, p.61, Feral House

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• Sadly, as with so much about history's heroes, it's the spotting of potential fame that's the difficulty, whether it's publishing their poems, hanging their paintings, or buying their old underwear. Think of the great men whose lives passed in penury and hacking coughs due to public unawareness that their littlest possession would end up at Sothebys or the basement at Fort Knox.

  Alan Coren

  Hero, Men, Thinking

  Alan Coren (2008). “Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren”, p.118, Canongate Books

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