Buying Quotes - Page 32

• A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit.

  Herman Kahn

  Government, Numbers, Giving

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.209, Lexington Books

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• Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That's not management, that's deal making. Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.

  Clayton Christensen

  Cutting, Opportunity, Thinking

  "layton Christensen wants to transform capitalism". Interview with Jeff Howe, www.wired.com. February 12, 2013.

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• I think that in the past, in the '50s and '60s, after the existentialists and beatniks and hippie movements, the big deal was, Don't sell out. We live in a society that by virtue of the speed we communicate and sell, everything sells. The danger is buying in; that your concern becomes success, rather than fulfillment. They're two different beasts, and my feeling is that you should seek fulfillment. You should not measure your worth in how much you have or how popular you are, but how happy you are with what you do.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Hippie, Past, Thinking

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• So what if you end up buying a size 6 instead of a 4? You can always cut out the label at home, and you’ll pretty soon forget whatever that number was because you’ll be too busy admiring how fantastic you look.

  Victoria Beckham

  Home, Cutting, Numbers

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• People, buying my stuff, can take it wherever they go and can rebuild it if they choose. If they keep it in their heads, that's fine too. They don't have to buy it to have it - they can just have it by knowing it.

  Lawrence Weiner

  Knowing, People, Stuff

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• But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.

  Don Nickles

  Looks, Bigger, Grew

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• When we contemplate buying something, we usually ask the price of it, then decide whether or not it is worth that much to us. But when we expend time and energy, we often just go ahead and pay.

  Ruth Stout

  Peace, Energy, Buying Something

  Ruth Stout (2011). “Gardening Without Work: For the Aging, the Busy & the Indolent”, p.26, Norton Creek Press

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• It is possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public or strolling alone or seated in your shop ... while buying or selling ... or even while cooking.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Cooking, Saint

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• So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!

  Nigel Dennis

  Years, Cameras, Twenties

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• I am not a supporter of buying a national team.

  Oliver Bierhoff

  Team, National Team, Supporter

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• It 's no fish ye 're buying, it 's men's lives.

  Walter Scott

  Life, Men, Fishes

  'The Antiquary' (1816) ch. 11

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• You think money can solve any problem, but all it s good for is buying the things it can, and leaving you free to pursue the things it can't.

  Ann Herendeen

  Life, Thinking, Leaving

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• In Joel's view, that reformation begins with people going o the trouble and expense of buying directly from farmers they know - "relationship marketing," as he calls it. He believes the only meaningful guarantee of integrity is when buyers and sellers can look one another in the eye, something few of us ever take the trouble to do. "Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into choosing the person who grows their food?"

  Michael Pollan

  Meaningful, Integrity, Believe

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.124, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Yes, you can get a man to do just about anything, and you know it. So, what are you going to attract him into doing? Buying you a nice house? Giving you the space to guide your own life? Or, offering his deepest gifts to you and all beings while opening his heart to God?
  Are you a selfish witch, a self-sufficient witch, or a witch for the sake of drawing your man and all beings open as a gift for all?

  David Deida

  Love, Selfish, Nice

  David Deida (2009). “Dear Lover: A Woman's Guide to Men, Sex, and Love's Deepest Bliss: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.143, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The world is filled with unfortunate souls who didn't hear opportunity knock at the door, because they were down at the convenience stor buying lottery tickets.

  Napoleon Hill

  Opportunity, Doors, Soul

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• That's like buying asparagus and then leaving it at the checkout. Why would you do that?

  Deborah King

  Leaving, Asparagus, Checkouts

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• The lesson here, and my advice for other developers, is to find a way that you can quantify for people what your product is worth. We were leery to do it ourselves, but being near Vetro when they did, the auction was a good technique for that. No one wants to be first, and the auction proved to people that others were buying and gave them that boost of confidence they needed.

  Bob Horner

  People, Advice, Technique

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• Too often when we're buying or building a house we do not consider each room. We are carried away by one charming feature and are blind to details that will give us trouble later on.

  Dorothy Draper

  Giving, House, Details

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• My depth of purse is not so great
  Nor yet my bibliophilic greed,
  That merely buying doth elate:
  The books I buy I like to read:
  Still e'en when dawdling in a mead,
  Beneath a cloudless summer sky,
  By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed,
  The books I read — I like to buy.

  A. Edward Newton

  Summer, Book, Sky

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• I was thinking recently, If the body really is the new dress, as some are saying - with women buying boobs, butts, faces - then who needs a dressmaker? So I started designing spring like a plastic surgeon - everything stretchy and nude. But after three weeks, I was so bored with myself and the world, I began adding diamond butterflies and chiffon and colors. I realized that fashion is not about second skin. It's not the perfect white shirt or camel jacket. What women need is a dream.

  Alber Elbaz

  Dream, Fashion, Spring

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• Fashion is not about buying a second skin. Fashion is about having a fantasy.

  Alber Elbaz

  Fashion, Skins, Fantasy

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• I think no more of taking another wife than I do of buying a cow.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Thinking, Wife, Cows

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• As mass production has to be accompanied by mass consumption, mass consumption, in turn, implies a distribution of wealth ... to provide men with buying power. ... Instead of achieving that kind of distribution, a giant suction pump had by 1929-30 drawn into a few hands an increasing portion of currently produced wealth. ... The other fellows could stay in the game only by borrowing. When their credit ran out, the game stopped.

  Marriner Stoddard Eccles

  Men, Hands, Games

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• There are substantial rewards for adopting a regular routine of investing and following it no matter what, and additional rewards for buying more shares when most investors are scared into selling.

  Peter Lynch

  Routine, Investing, Rewards

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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

  James Cash Penney

  Economy

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