Quotes About Buying

#1. People go shopping, we spend on so many things, and we just don't know. We don't know the prices of things. But gasoline, even when you're not buying, it's staring you in the face. Psychologists call this 'salience.'

Sendhil Mullainathan

#2. Buying a fly rod in the average city store, that is, joining it up and safely waggling it a bit, is much like seeing a woman's arm protruding from a car window: all one can readily be sure of is that the window is open.

John D. Voelker

#3. Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.

Sandra Lee

#4. Being a parent and having two young kids, I buy Blu-rays and DVDs all the time. It's like buying a toy.

Rob Letterman

#5. I remember, my first bicycle was very much a used bike. I wasn't going to Wal-Mart, buying a flashy 10-speed bike from China. Are you kidding me?

Charles Schwab

#6. I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.

Yann Martel

#7. Most shows, buying shows, have a standard fee for the first shot of the writer and if you have a very militant agent, I suppose he might jack it up four percent or something. But in essence, you sell for what is the going rate.

Rod Serling

#8. Colour is really important to me when buying clothes. I wear a lot of fitted jackets, and because I'm small, I avoid long skirts and coats. And I hate wearing hats.

Kate Williams

#9. I think we did a great job of putting together a program that would have made good e-books available had people been buying e-books in any real numbers.

Thomas Perry

#10. I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.

Anna Kendrick

#11. The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do deserve to lose money.

Jim Cramer

#12. There's a lot of things that haven't been communicated to our communities. I didn't know these things myself. I didn't know that if you ate cheap food, it was like buying cheap gasoline, and there was a reason why after an hour you get headaches, or youhypoglycemic.

Sandra Cisneros

#13. I'm not just buying a car - I'm buying a lifestyle!

Lynn Johnston

#14. In our business, except in media buying, there are few economies of scale. Client perception of creative agencies is that the bigger they are, the worse they are.

Martin Sorrell

#15. If you live in a free market and a free society, shouldn't you have the right to know what you're buying? It's shocking that we don't and it's shocking how much is kept from us

Robert Kenner

#16. Supporting a creative artist can mean buying their books, music, art, movie, and photographs or just shouting out their name.

Chris Mentillo

#17. He was making up a story, and she was buying into his bullshit. That was a recipe for disaster

Miranda Liasson

#18. Figure 6: Sirius research shows that, of the 70% of leads who are disqualified by sales, 80% end up buying eventually, often from a competitor. DATA

Steven Woods

#19. In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.

Arthur Henderson

#20. Besides buying a mansion or something, everything I wanted I always got. I'm just ready to invest it and save it. Otherwise, life can hit you, but you can't go back to working at Home Depot. That's why I always just be stacking.

French Montana

#21. Everyone's talking about how no one is buying records any more, but to me it's quite logical. In the 1990s, music was so hardcore-marketed to a certain group of people that I think a lot of kids felt taken advantage of.

Robyn

#22. That will teach a bitch for buying the same dam shoes as mine and for opening a shop on my block...Charli

Kim Morris

#23. Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.

Henry Ford

#24. I was brand-new in San Francisco, right out of college, and I thought it was thrilling, a guy buying me a drink. I didn't think, how tacky, this creep is buying me a drink. I thought, how amazing, I put on lipstick and a short skirt and look what can happen.

Marcy Dermansky

#25. So much value has been lost in the housing market that people are now buying. If there's any activity in the housing market, it's because values have plummeted to such depths that the 47% can now afford to live in a government-purchased house, or something like that.

Rush Limbaugh

#26. I rely on myself very much. I just think that you have an instinct and you go with it. Especially when it comes to deal-making and buying things.

Donald Trump

#27. People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they're going to make you believe you have to spend your money buying these products otherwise you won't be happy. This is really wrong. Especially the implication it carries.

Michel Gondry

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

Esther Williams

#29. I hate to make this point too often, but imagine for a moment George W. Bush were on his sixth vacation, and he was asked about Iraq, and he said 'I'm buying shrimp.' You think that wouldn't be a headline everywhere?

Willie Geist

#30. The person that is buying a share of stock is convinced he knows something that the other person who's selling it to him does not know. There's no zero sum game in Wall Street.

Bernard Madoff

#31. China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day.

Bernard Arnault

#32. we were buying things we actually loved, not things to show off,

Kevin Kwan

#33. One-hundred-ten years of history, great diversity, lots of new earnings drivers and I just became a grandpa - twins. And I'm buying JJ, Pfizer and Warner for their future college funds.

David O. Sacks

#34. 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

#35. When you buy me, you are buying a Ferrari. If you drive a Ferrari, you put premium petrol in the tank, you hit the motorway, and you step on the gas.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#36. I used to be very disciplined about only buying three books ahead of what I was reading, but my husband corrupted me, and now I'm dozens ahead of myself!

Gretchen Rubin

#37. I have no one to blame for the construction for myself, of course, but I'm always surprised and slightly sulky when I realize people are buying the whole thing.

Jonathan Lethem

#38. To me, the beauty of a quilt or a dress lies within the stitches and the thought of the person who made them. When you spend time making something with your two hands, you impart love in a way that buying never can.

Natalie

#39. Now and then, living more with less means paying more money. It may mean buying better quality - leaving behind repetitive purchases of discount junk for one expensive, well-made, thoughtfully designed tool that will last.

Doris Janzen Longacre

#40. 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

#41. I can't give money away to buy listeners. I can't pay listeners off with phones or food stamps or anything. I can't come by my audience by buying it.

Rush Limbaugh

#42. Luxury to me is not about buying expensive things; it's about living in a way where you appreciate things.

Oscar De La Renta

#43. Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.

Adam Davidson

#44. Maybe instead of buying myself another Barbie, I could donate that to the Kmart Wishing Tree ...

Hamish Blake

#45. Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.

John Lubbock

#46. When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot.

Larry Lujack

#47. Remember, buying something is not the problem. The problem comes when we believe, for that moment, that the object we're buying is going to make us happy.

Celso Cukierkorn

#48. Vlad looked around. Are we providing shelter, or are the humans actually buying books?

Anne Bishop

#49. Age is just a number, and agelessness means not buying into the idea that a number determines everything from your state of health to your attractiveness to your value.

Christiane Northrup

#50. People aren't buying records like they used to, so it's nice to try to figure out a way to make them do it. I would enjoy the same thing to own an old movie house, to try to trick people to come in - like having 3-D or Smell-o-Vision or Vibra-Vision or something. Mcguffins to get people interested.

Jack White

#51. It's not only about the rap lyric. Today, people are buying you as a person.

Theophilus London

#52. Labour day is a great American holiday that people
celebrate by going out and buying products
made in China

David Letterman

#53. I sort of pride myself in my dissatisfaction with my work. I've always been concerned with buying the hype, and having that make your performances suffer.

Neil Patrick Harris

#54. Then again, if the plant is slow growing, and you are getting older, you may want to start with a larger plant. I find myself buying larger plants each year.

Billy Cannon

#55. The amazing thing is that we're part of people's daily lives, like brushing their teeth. It's just something they do throughout the day while working, buying things, deciding what to do after work and much more. Google has been accepted as part of people's lives.

Larry Page

#56. Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.

Charles Saatchi

#57. Youth hates age, age loves youth. This means we are born for unhappiness. This means we will keep buying outfits.

Kate Tempest

#58. Even as the urgency of the task ahead reemerged in thought, her body grappled with the notion, buying into the soothing sweetness - of Nate's embrace, of the darkness - with a naivety her mind would not permit.

Shona Moyce

#59. [I]t was the color of someone buying you an ice cream cone for no reason at all.

Lemony Snicket

#60. And when she told us her wedding song - of course, they've already picked their wedding song, and of course, it's "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong - I said that choosing that song is the sonic equivalent of buying picture frames and never replacing the photos of the models.

Rainbow Rowell

#61. Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.

Mackenzie Crook

#62. We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.

Peter Singer

#63. The law enforcement in this town is terrific. All through prohibition Eddie Mars' place was a night club and they had two uniformed men in the lobby every night-to see that the guests didn't bring their own liquor instead of buying it from the house.

Raymond Chandler

#64. It's like the psychiatrists themselves are buying into that stupid belief that therapy is something to hide.

Jodi Picoult

#65. I'm as embarrassed as hell about it. I purged myself of my shame by buying the Beatles 'all you need is love', one of the most evocative singles of all time.

Jon Snow

#66. 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

#67. Wherefore we be not only His by His buying, but also by the courteous gift of His Father we be His bliss, we be His meed, we be His worship, we be His crown. (And this was a singular marvel and a full delectable beholding, that we be His crown!)

Julian Of Norwich

#68. I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.

Wendy Cope

#69. I collect new books the way my friends collect designer handbags. Sometimes, I just like to know I have them and actually reading them is beside the point. Not that I don't eventually end up reading them. I do. But the mere act of buying them makes me happy.

Jennifer Kaufman

#70. I know it sounds weird, but the food that I eat, it doesn't make a big difference, and it never has. So, I've saved a ton of money not buying a lot of alcohol, not going out to restaurants too much. So, I think it's part of our culture, and it's part of a social activity more than anything else.

Aaron Patzer

#71. Basically the most fun part about the first day of anything is buying all the supplies.

Tim Federle

#72. I mean, my idea of exciting is getting an Amazon gift card and buying a whole bunch of books.

J. Daniels

#73. When Pauline Pfeiffer wrote Hadley Hemingway, "I've seen your husband E. Hemingway several times...", how could she not be blamed for breaking up the marriage. I'm not buying that Pauline was naive.

Ruth A. Hawkins

#74. There are only two reasons for buying a book, after all. Either we intend to read it, in which case most of us find a printed version preferable, or we don't intend to read it, in which case a printed version is absolutely essential.

Geoffrey Nunberg

#75. I'm afraid of buying a house or anything, 'cause if there's one paparazzi outside for one day, then they'll never leave.

Robert Pattinson

#76. In China, you've got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you've got the largest rising upper-middle class in the world.

Angela Ahrendts

#77. I think it's safe to say that 50% of the record buying metal community is people between the ages of 16 and 25 - people still in their teenage-angsty, early young-adult years.

Blake Judd

#78. I'm now wearing suits on stage, so I've kinda stepped up my game as far as image. Which I have to admit is kind of a pain the butt, but it's fun. It gives you a certain amount of confidence to walk on stage and look nice, but I can't say that I'm totally buying into the whole image factor.

Christopher Cross

#79. Unfortunately, in collective bargaining one party or the other too often tries to gain an advantage - a bargain, like buying something in a store for less than it is worth.

Charles E. Wilson

#80. I am such a music fiend. I go after so many different types of music. I'm on iTunes constantly just buying new music!

Austin Butler

#81. I was in the mood to make out in the back row of the movie theater with someone who did not know my first name. I wanted three guys to fight for the honor of buying me a drink

Jodi Picoult

#82. If you're buying animal products and can go to the farm and actually see how the animals are looked after, yes, that's an important point. That's definitely the best way of assuring yourself that the animals are being well treated.

Peter Singer

#83. I often find human behavior amusing. Like having a full refrigerator of food to eat yet buying fast food instead. If you learn to conquer the two big "N" words. Niceties vs Necessities. You might actually have some funds for the hard times that come.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#84. The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

Gore Vidal

#85. in Japan, buying a lot of stuff for your children is considered indulgent. Wastefulness was frowned upon. Shopping bags should be saved to reuse many times, not recycled after one purchase.

Christine Gross-Loh

#86. I just sometimes get the sneaking suspicion that corporations are co-opting "girl confidence" language to rally girls into buying body wash. Be careful.

Mindy Kaling

#87. You hear about women buying shoes? I buy DVDs. I definitely have a problem.

Derek Jeter

#88. When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.

Tablo

#89. I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.

Robyn Hitchcock

#90. And to all of you, what it really comes down to is: If you're buying a book with my name on it, I feel I owe it to you to have it be the best book that I can make it.

Peter David

#91. 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

#92. Eating is the purest mode of consumption. Our purchases are statements about our social class, our friends, and our beliefs. Buying something as continually necessary as food is an ongoing act of self-definition.

Evan D.G. Fraser

#93. Some people make stuff; other people have to buy it. And when we gave up making stuff, starting in the 1980s, we were left with the unique role of buying ... we shopped till we dropped, all right, face down on the floor.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#94. Over the long run, the price of gold approximates the total amount of money in circulation divided by the size of the gold stock. If the market price of gold moves a long way from this level, it may indicate a buying or selling opportunity.

Ray Dalio

#95. Think twice before you buy. Decide before you purchase anything where you are going to keep it and what you are going to use it for. If your answers to either of these questions are vague, then you are about to purchase clutter. Desist from buying.

Karen Kingston

#96. Yves Saint Laurent will never go out of business so long as I'm buying mountains of Touche Eclat.

Deirdre O'Kane

#97. I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

Harlan Coben

#98. We're on the brink of the next industrial revolution. Instead of buying things, you can make them on a printer. When you have a 3D printer, you can iterate more - what used to take months, now takes hours.

Bre Pettis

#99. I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.

Wallace Shawn

#100. Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.

Margaret Atwood