Top 78 Buying And Selling Quotes
#1. Buying and selling securities in an attempt to outperform the market will effectively be a game of chance rather than skill.
Kenneth Eade
#2. The big money is not in the buying and selling ... but in the waiting.
Charlie Munger
#3. [the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians ... bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm ...
Jesse Ventura
#4. Some people who don't like guns can't stand the idea of so many gun owners in one place (at gun shows) buying and selling their wicked products. It's how some communists feel when they visit the New York Stock Exchange.
Dave Kopel
#5. Isn't that a view worth looking at? Nice and far from the marketplace, ain't it? No buying and selling and getting gain. You don't have to pay anything- all that sea and sky free- 'without money and without price.
L.M. Montgomery
#6. Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit violates our inherent right to nature's gift and denies the poor of their human rights.
Vandana Shiva
#7. Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
Henry David Thoreau
#8. I don't think anybody ever makes any money buying and selling stock. They have to make money by keeping the stock.
Donald Sultan
#9. We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
Cornel West
#10. Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.
David Korten
#11. The explosion in access to mobile phones and digital services means that people everywhere are contributing vast amounts of information to the global knowledge warehouse. Moreover, they are doing so for free, just by communicating, buying and selling goods and going about their daily lives.
Ban Ki-moon
#13. I have three very simple principles. I don't like conflicts of interest; they should be eliminated or disclosed. I believe in transparency, that people have to really not just know but understand what they're buying and selling. And that you have to have enough capital to back up your promises.
Eric Schneiderman
#14. Let not to get a living be thy trade, but thy sport. Enjoy the land, but own it not. Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling, and spending their lives like serfs.
Henry David Thoreau
#15. Sisterhood is powerful. Woman can support each other as women, in their pursuit for enlightenment or anything else, without fear. But as long as she's still in the commodities exchange market, buying and selling, she must fear the competition.
Frederick Lenz
#16. The lesson: The power of your story isn't just a way to connect to your ultimate consumer but is also a means of making you attractive to potential partners who want to attach themselves to something deeper than buying and selling.
Blake Mycoskie
#17. The basic concept of value to a private owner and being motivated when you're buying and selling securities by reference to intrinsic value instead of price momentum - I don't think that will ever be outdated.
Charlie Munger
#18. Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.
Margaret Atwood
#19. The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and
money began to play an important part in determining
elections. Later on, this process of corruption spread to
the law courts. And then to the army, and finally the
Republic was subjected to the rule of emperors
Plutarch
#20. Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.
Martin Sheen
#21. Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.
Alice Walker
#22. Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.
Bill Gates
#23. The media and marketing deluge has spawned a new type of Wall Street loser: the armchair momentum player. These are novice investors who engage in short-term stock buying and selling based on media reports or an expert's enthusiasm.
Gary Weiss
#24. The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange.
William Petty
#25. When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
P. J. O'Rourke
#26. Russia and China, when they were communist-like adversaries, they didn't participate. They're participating now in the world with us. They're trading monetary instruments. We're buying and selling goods back and forth, trading oil and so forth.
Wesley Clark
#27. What do you require to exchange your ideas for mine?" "You think my convictions are for sale?" "Why not?" came the cold response. "Isn't that your business, buying and selling?" "Only at a profit," said Mallow,
Isaac Asimov
#28. Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and selling products online.
Marc Ostrofsky
#29. I don't like conflicts of interest; they should be eliminated or disclosed. I believe in transparency: that people have to really not just know but understand what they're buying and selling.
Eric Schneiderman
#30. I was working in financing. I was buying and selling stocks for a market-maker on the options floor at the Pacific Stock Exchange. He took me under his wing and was training me to take over his accounts. That's the career I had embarked on, at the time.
Tim Kang
#31. This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.
Hernan Cortes
#32. I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them.
C.S. Lewis
#33. 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 dealmaking.
Clayton Christensen
#34. Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#35. Don't forget the real business of the war is buying and selling. The murdering and the violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals.
Thomas Pynchon
#36. I'm the king of crime. I'm the criminal. I'm the juvenile delinquent, the rebel, the outcast, the unwanted. I'm everything that everybody looks down on and is standing on, spitting on, cursing and calling names, and hating, buying and selling all the different things.
Marlin Marynick
#37. 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
#38. Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets.
Maria Bartiromo
#39. Buying and selling is good and necessary; it is very necessary, and may, possibly, be very good; but it cannot be the noblest work of man; and let us hope that it may not in our time be esteemed the noblest work of an Englishman.
Anthony Trollope
#40. 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
#41. I was working at eBay, so I would just troll the vintage categories, find old amps and what have you. I was buying a fair amount of stuff and playing with it and then selling it back.
Bill Orcutt
#42. To buy when others are despondently selling and sell when others are greedily buying requires the greatest fortitude and pays the greatest reward.
John Templeton
#43. Customer conversion is dependent on the right customer conversation
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#44. Firstly, should we be selling and buying irradiated meat? I think that's up to the consumer, ultimately. But the second point is, this irradiated meat should be clearly and unmistakably labeled as irradiated meat.
Eric Schlosser
#45. I am in a constant cycle of selling my clothes at Wasteland and buying from Goodwill. Once or twice a year, I go through my closet and donate everything to Goodwill. It feels like I am recycling my fashion.
Jenny Lewis
#46. I have lots of CDs that came out at one time or another, and according to the statements I've gotten, no one's buying them.I figured there's no need making a new CD. There are plenty of mine out there, and none of them are selling.
Mose Allison
#47. I've always taken risks and bought property well. As journalism wasn't particularly well paid, buying homes and selling them for profit improved my income.
Anne Robinson
#48. It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes, and then buying an insurance policy on those cars.
Phil Angelides
#49. I blame all the craziness of people buying houses, re-doing them and selling them, on these programs on television where they are redoing your homes and kitchens.
Barbara Hulanicki
#50. It is haram [religiously forbidden] to use narcotics in any way because it results in considerable adverse effects in terms of personal health and social cost. By the same token, it is haram to deal in narcotics in any way, i.e., carrying, transporting, storing, selling, buying, etc.
Ali Khamenei
#51. Venture capitalists make money by buying shares in companies and subsequently selling those shares for more than the original investment. It's a simple game fraught with complexities.
Bill Snow
#52. Outperforming the majority of investors requires doing what they are not doing. Buying when others have despaired, and selling when they are full of hope, takes fortitude.
John Templeton
#53. Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing.
J. Paul Getty
#54. What is the focus of the new image infrastructure? Attention. It's all designed for capturing, tracking, quantifying, manipulating, holding, buying, selling and controlling attention.
Bruce Mau
#55. The process is about leadership and about taking people to places that they cannot get to on their own, while they are still feeling comfortably in control of a buying decision
Michelle Moore
#56. Basically we get confused a bit about what retail is. It is really just buying things, putting them on a floor and selling them.
Gerry Harvey
#58. People love it when you give your secrets away, and sometimes, if you're smart about it, they'll reward you by buying the things you're selling.
Austin Kleon
#59. As I saw more and more people buying the images that were happy buyers, and people selling the images that were happy with how the market was pricing them, I started to get the sense this could be the go-to place for businesses to get the images they need.
Jon Oringer
#60. American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.
Russell Simmons
#61. Selling is true fun and the pleasure of selling enjoyed only when someone buys it...
Selling and buying are like husband and wife, someone has to sell for someone to buy and vice-versa....
Even if both are interesting, sometimes it is closely associated with needs and choice
Anish Rajan
#62. When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.
Patrick Carney
#63. 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
#64. Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound.
Charles A. Dana
#65. Most people assume that a record shop's success lies in selling records. In fact, Virgin's success both in mail order and the record shops lay in skill at buying records.
Richard Branson
#66. I can assure you that buying leases for x and selling them for 5x or 10x is a lot more profitable than trying to produce gas at $5 or $6 per million cubic feet.
Aubrey McClendon
#67. I am proud that my humble attempts to predict Tuesday's prices on Monday are an indispensable component of our society. By buying low and selling high, I create harmony and freedom.
Victor Niederhoffer
#68. One market paradigm that I take exception to is: Buy low and sell high. I believe far more money is made by buying high and selling at even higher prices.
Richard Driehaus
#69. I've made money over the years by buying into good companies, run by good people, at attractive prices. And I don't try and make it out of buying into the market at one point and selling at another point.
Warren Buffett
#70. Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you're really buying into someone else's system of values, rules, and rewards.
Bill Watterson
#71. When governments are selling, you should be buying. And when governments are defaulting, we should look at that as an opportunity.
David Bonderman
#72. Money can be issued only in the act of buying, and can be backed only in the act of selling. Any buyer who is also a seller is qualified to be a money issuer. Government, because it is not and should not be a seller, is not qualified to be a money issuer.
E.C. Riegel
#73. I'm thinking of buying a church and changing it around: maybe selling crack and having a few whores in the pew.
George Carlin
#74. Whatever you do, whatever you're working with, whether it's manual work or talking to people or buying or selling, every little thing encompasses the power and simplicity of presence.
Eckhart Tolle
#75. If you're preaching, I've already got religion. And if you're selling, I ain't buying--unless you've got binoculars. I could use some new binoculars.
Laura Bradford
#76. The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the opposite. When everyone else is buying, we assume they know something we don't, so we buy. Then people start selling, panic sets in, and we sell too.
Jonathan Sacks
#77. I don't like to change things too much. I think pretty hard about things before I jump in, and once I do, I feel, 'All right, I don't want to waste the energy of buying, selling this, going on Consumer Reports, test driving, buying, selling a house.' I feel life is to be lived.
Greg Fitzsimmons
#78. The activists play the balance sheet by selling a division to buy back stock and leveraging the balance sheet and buying back more stock.
Nelson Peltz
