Buying Quotes - Page 33

• The buying of time or space is not the taking out of a hunting license on someone else's private preserve but is the renting of a stage on which we may perform.

  Howard Gossage

  Hunting, Space, May

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• I think the big force is going to be consumer buying power.

  Roy Romer

  Thinking, Think Big, Bigs

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• You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.

  Ron Chernow

  Opportunity, People, Risk

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• You don't change the world by hiding in the woods, wearing a hair shirt, or buying indulgences in the form of 'Save the Earth' bumper stickers. You do it by articulating a vision for the future and pursuing it with all the ingenuity humanity can muster.

  Alex Steffen

  Inspirational, Hair, Humanity

  "The Next Green Revolution" by Alex Steffen, www.wired.com. May 1, 2006.

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• People tend to look at their businesses from the inside out - that is, they get so focused on making and selling their products that they lose awareness of the needs and buying behaviors of their customers.

  Lawrence Bossidy

  Leadership, People, Needs

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• Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.

  Daniel Drew

  Men, Play, Cows

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• A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back.

  E. W. Howe

  Women, Buying Things, Doe

  "Country Town Sayings: A Collection of Paragraphs from the Atchison Globe". Book by Edgar Watson Howe, p. 16, 1911.

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• Women aren't embarrassed when they buy men's pajamas, but a man buying a nightgown acts as though he were dealing with a dope peddler.

  Jimmy Cannon

  Women, Dope, Pajamas

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• Architects are today routinely indoctrinated against the dumb box. Even advertising urges us to "think outside the box." Why? Because it is thought we all hate the box for being too dumb, too boring, and we want to escape it. If we do escape, by buying the advertised product, we usually find ourselves inside another dumb box populated by boring people just like us. It is clearly possible to live an extraordinary life inside a dumb box. Question: is it possible to lead an extraordinary life in anything other than a dumb box?

  Lebbeus Woods

  Hate, Thinking, People

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• The reason that so many of us cannot save money is because of our friends. They're always buying something we can't afford.

  Sam Ewing

  Buying Something, Saving Money, Reason

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• First of all I trust my own instinct, experience that I gained over years and feeling when the moment is right for buying shares. That is what one calls intuition.

  Alisher Usmanov

  Years, Feelings, Intuition

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• Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations.

  Jane Asher

  Running, Fun, Home

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• I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.

  Esther Williams

  Gas Stations, Plant, Restaurants

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• I buy stocks when they are battered. I am strict with my discipline. I always buy stocks with low price-earnings ratios, low price-to-book value ratios and higher-than-average yield. Academic studies have shown that a strategy of buying out-of-favor stocks with low P/E, price-to-book and price-to-cash flow ratios outperforms the market pretty consistently over long periods of time.

  David Dreman

  Book, Yield, Cash Flow

  "Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Classic Edition". Book by David Dreman, May 18, 1998.

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

  Amanda Hocking

  Book, People, Dollars

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• I don't get it: they re-package the same shitty football games every year, update a few stats, call it a new game and millions of suckers keep buying them. What's the point? Why not just go outside and play real football instead? Or even better yet, get bent. Nobody likes football.

  Maddox

  Football, Real, Years

  "Ikaruga". www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net.

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• No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily - or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play.

  Edwin Lefevre

  Intelligent, Men, Play

  Edwin Lefèvre (2004). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.35, John Wiley & Sons

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• It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight! It is no trick at all to be right on the market. You always find lots of early bulls in bull markets and early bears in bear markets. I've known many men who were right at exactly the right time, and began buying or selling stocks when prices were at the very level which should show the greatest profit. And their experience invariably matched mine--that is, they made no real money out of it. Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon.

  Edwin Lefevre

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• One the one hand, our economists treat human beings as rational actors making choices to maximize their own economic benefit. On the other hand, the same companies that hire those economists also pay for advertising campaigns that use the raw materials of myth and magic to encourage people to act against their own best interests, whether it's a matter of buying overpriced fizzy sugar water or the much more serious matter of continuing to support the unthinking pursuit of business as usual in the teeth of approaching disaster.

  John Michael Greer

  Hands, People, Water

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• Americans aren't buying the hate these anti-LGBT extremists are selling, so they've been forced to take their take their dangerous rhetoric abroad. These radicals are now travelling from country to country advocating for the persecution of LGBT people under the guise that they're saving children.

  Chad Griffin

  Country, Children, Hate

  "US conservative activists want more countries to emulate Russia's anti-gay laws", www.foxnews.com. February 21, 2014.

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• Immersing yourself in the environment of a real record store where music is celebrated and cherished adds real value to the experience of buying music. In some ways, that retail experience is as important as the music.

  John Mellencamp

  Real, Important, Retail

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• It's about time we stopped buying things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.

  Adrian Rogers

  Buying Things, People, Needs

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• Therell always be some weird thing about eating four grapes before you go to bed, or drinking a special tea, or buying this little bean from El Salvador.

  Richard Simmons

  Drinking, Tea, Special

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• If people keep buying poorly designed products, manufacturers and designers will think they are doing the right thing and continue as usual.

  Donald A. Norman

  Thinking, People, Usual

  "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Donald Norman, Ch. 1, p. 8, 2002.

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• For average working folks, America was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how was everyone paying for these BMWs? Were people shrewd or just stupefyingly irresponsible?

  Daniel Suarez

  Average, Bmw, Two

  Daniel Suarez (2009). “Daemon”, p.5, Penguin

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