Top 100 Quotes About Buys
#1. Girl: The kid buys a new tie and you curse him like he was Ramsay MacDonald.
Vladimir Mayakovsky
#2. The only thing money really buys? ... Space. A bigger house, a bigger car, a larger hotel room. First-class plane tickets. But it doesn't even buy comfort. No one complains more than the rich and entitled. Comfort, security, ease. None of them come with money.
Louise Penny
#3. Teaching can be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless someone buys ... yet there are teachers who think they have done a good day's teaching irrespective of what the pupils have learned.
John Dewey
#4. When I listen to the complaints that follow just about every presidential debate, I'm reminded of the well-worn joke about the Jewish mother who buys her son two shirts. When he shows up at dinner wearing one, she says: 'What's the matter? You didn't like the other one?'
Jeff Greenfield
#5. What people in business think they know about the customer and market is likely to be more wrong than right ... the customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him.
Peter Drucker
#6. No child can repay his father unless he finds him enslaved and then buys him and sets him free.
Muhammad
#7. To sell John Brown what John Brown buys, you've got to see things through John Brown's eyes.
Anonymous
#8. I have learned about bulk shopping in my four weeks as a Mississippi River resident. Republicans go to Sam's Club, Democrats go to Costco. But everyone buys bulk because - unlike Manhattanites - they all have space to store twenty-four jars of sweet pickles.
Gillian Flynn
#9. I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys.
Bruce Willis
#11. We all play God every day. When a woman buys a new pair of expensive shoes, she could have spent that same money feeding someone who was starving. In a sense, those shoes mean more to her than a life. We all kill to make our lives more comfortable. We don't put it in those terms. But we do.
Harlan Coben
#12. In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered to him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and chemically testing before purchasing, the dozens of soaps or fabrics or brands of bread which are for sale, economic life would become hopelessly jammed.
Edward Bernays
#13. Luckily almost no one buys music anymore, so selling music doesn't really affect any of my professional decisions.
Moby
#14. Suffering "buys" something, and this something possesses a certain value for all of us, for common consciousness; by suffering we buy the right to judge.
Lev Shestov
#15. When a leader buys his own excuses, he also, unfortunately, sells them to his team.
Orrin Woodward
#16. 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
#17. There's no justice for the poor man. Money buys justice, and I have no doubt there's a great deal of money in that man's pockets to buy the finest judge on the bench.
Mercedes Lackey
#18. People like Justin Frankel and Daniel Sheldon linger on the fringe until they dream up something that has great commercial potential. Then some big company swoops in and buys them, or they give birth to the big company themselves.
Michael Lewis
#20. When German companies take over firms in India, it is seen as normal. When an Indian buys one or two firms in Germany, that is something special.
Tulsi Tanti
#21. The NSA employs more mathematicians, buys more computer hardware, and intercepts more messages than any other organization in the world.
Simon Singh
#22. I've never been naturally fashion conscious. I'm the kind of person who sees a whole outfit in a magazine, runs out and buys it but looks like a clown.
Brooke Shields
#23. I'm the kind of person who buys a new thing, wears it so much and then is totally sick of it.
Kirsten Dunst
#24. When I'm in New York my boyfriend buys me sneakers and vice versa.
Lily Allen
#25. The only way Marc Bircham will be going to Tottenham is if he buys a f****** season ticket.
Terry Venables
#26. When one buys a pair of shoes, one is buying three things, the right shoe, the left shoe and the pair.
A.J. Ayer
#27. No,"Ito said gently, "we will not be needing soldiers. Accountants will do nicely."
Mutsuhito frowned. "How does one storm a castle with accountants ?"
"One buys it, sir.
Natasha Pulley
#28. Anyone who buys a ticket can just go in there, and I don't like everyone, so I always see concerts as like, I'm going to get punched, I'm going to get elbowed, I'm going to get stepped on, get spilled on, someone's going to hit me with their body odor or something.
Baron Vaughn
#29. We all believe that, we can't buy love even if we are rich enough; but I think no one buys his own property.
M.F. Moonzajer
#30. The human animal is a beast that eventually has to die. If he's got money, he buys and he buys and he buys. The reason he buys everything he can is because of some crazy hope that one of the things he buys will be life everlasting.
Burl Ives
#31. Money can't buy you happiness but it buys you all the things you don't have, even friends.
PewDiePie
#32. We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.
Charles Caleb Colton
#33. In Los Angeles, the Police Department buys a 40-foot refrigerated trailer truck every six months just to hold DNA evidence.
Bill Dedman
#34. You deserve someone who takes you out on real dates. Someone who buys you flowers and shit. Because if there's anyone in this world who's capable of insane amounts of love and who deserves to be loved that way in return, it's you.
Kim Holden
#35. The Muses inspire art and pretend not to notice when Mammon buys it.
Mason Cooley
#36. Why ... is the hunter who shoots a deer for venison subject to more criticism than the person who buys a ham at the supermarket? Overall, it is probably the intensively reared pig who has suffered more.
Peter Singer
#37. Money buys things that people with money never even realize they've bought, like time and freedom.
Whitney Otto
Whitney Otto
#38. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy?
William Shakespeare
#39. Davis is a literargy dyspeptic who had more ink than blood in his veins, an intriguer, buys with private enmities.
Edward A. Pollard
#40. Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
Andre Malraux
#41. A modern Woman is not necessarily ... s omeone who just buys expensive stuff ...
... a modern Woman is someone who buys intelligently.
Prabal Gurung
#42. I'm not a businessperson. I have no sense of money. My mom does everything for me. She makes all my decisions for me, and even buys my clothes. She's very protective.
Coco Lee
#43. The Federal Reserve bank buys government bonds without one penny ...
John C. Danforth
#44. To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his thread. The spider gets his thread right out of his own guts, and that is where the author gets his writing.
Robertson Davies
#45. People who say that only young people voted on the Internet, those who didn't see Pele play, forget that children are not orphans. There's always a father who buys the computer and perhaps influences their vote. I won the people's vote.
Diego Maradona
#46. You can find a lot of reasonable buys at Wal-Mart. But one key to making it on a budget is by donating your time and labor to the project. Do-it-yourself projects will always help you save.
Nate Berkus
#47. Don't think that even an engineer, when he buys a motor, takes it to bits to scrutinize it. Even he as a specialist buys from the external appearance. A motor ought to look like a birthday present.
Peter Behrens
#48. Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
Henry A. Kissinger
#49. I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it ... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
S. Robson Walton
#50. Of *course* he needs to renegotiate his salary - the guy buys more snow than Seward did when he bought Alaska from the Russians.
Dennis Miller
#51. A typical guy who buys organic food doesn't really buy it in order to be healthy; he buys it to regain a kind of solidarity as the one who really cares about nature. He buys a certain ideological stance.
Slavoj Zizek
#53. Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.
Daniel Kahneman
#54. Money buys many things ... The best of which is freedom.
Mary Renault
#55. My mama was a rocker way back in fifty-three, buys them old records that they sell on TV.
Tom Petty
#56. Democracy is held captive, not just by money, but by ideas - the ideas that money buys.
William Greider
#58. Sit with a merchant or sit with a beggar, and it'll always be the beggar who buys your first drink.
R. Scott Bakker
#59. I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
Nat King Cole
#60. Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love
Ovid
#61. You know, I've made my money. If no one buys my album, cool. It's fine. I've got a house, and I've got dogs that I love. I don't need anything else.
Miley Cyrus
#62. When Berkshire buys common stock, we approach the transaction as if we were buying into a private business.
Warren Buffett
#63. My mum's amazing - every time I achieve something in my career, she buys me a diamond earring.
Katie McGrath
#64. Imagine never leaving North Idaho again. He's got his coffee and he's got his ritual, his work around the cabin, and with the new satellite dish Lydia buys him for his birthday, he's got nine hundred channels and he's got Netflix,
Jess Walter
#65. No one hangs up the phone until the customer buys or dies.
Jordan Belfort
#66. When the child is twelve, your wife buys her a splendidly silly article of clothing called a training bra. To train what? I never had a training jock. And believe me, when I played football, I could have used a training jock more than any twelve-year-old needs a training bra.
Bill Cosby
#67. I'm not a big music fan. Well, I am a big fan, but I'm not the type of person who buys stuff.
Peter Shilton
#68. Reliance on other people's knowledge ... buys us all a lot of time. It also buys us, in essence, many billions of prosthetic brains.
Kathryn Schulz
#69. Tis gold Which buys admittance
oft it doth
yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up This deer to th' stand o' th' stealer: and 'tis gold Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief, Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man.
William Shakespeare
#70. I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role and ultimately the audience buys it, then it doesn't matter whether you were really a chimpanzee in disguise! You've done it.
Alexander Siddig
#71. What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it.
Maxim Gorky
#72. Money buys you nice things but it doesn't make you happy.
Amy Childs
#73. Don't hang up until the client either buys or dies.
Jordan Belfort
#74. The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.
John F. Kennedy
#75. Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money.
Chris Martin
#76. My victory is when the audience buys a ticket to watch my film. I am extremely thrilled when they give it a thumbs-up.
Emraan Hashmi
#77. Money ... buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is; the thinner your walls, the closer your neighbors ... The first thing you notice when you step into the house or apartment of a rich person is how quiet it is.
Fran Lebowitz
#78. All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour that buys them a year. No one's gonna buy them forever, Hazel Grace, but my life bought them a minute. And that's not nothing.
John Green
#79. The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
John Berger
#80. The red kind of symbolizes a lot of things I do in Africa, along with a lot of the work, like the red laces. Everybody that buys a pair can pretty much save a life in Africa.
Serena Williams
#81. Let's get something straight; you're not a piece of shit, you're amazing. It doesn't matter who buys me drinks, or who asks me to dance, or who flirts with me. I'm going home with you. You've asked me to trust you, and you don't seem to trust me. - Abby, Beautiful Disaster
Jamie McGuire
#82. [on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.
Johnny Depp
#83. We all have our muses. My grandmother and my mother are the people I write for. I'll never have to worry about who buys my work, or who likes it, and who doesn't. The people who I want to be proud of me already are.
Nikki Giovanni
#84. When a woman buys shoes, she takes them out of the box and looks at herself in the mirror. But she isn't really looking at her shoes - she's looking at herself. If she likes herself, then she likes the shoes.
Christian Louboutin
#85. The money buys the drugs, the drugs work harder and harder to trick your blackened dopamine receptors into giving a damn about living. At some point you make a choice: fight your need the rest of your goddamned long-suffering life, or fill your need until it disappears into the grave with you.
Jeremy Robert Johnson
#87. He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy.
Alec-Tweedie
#88. In the corrupted currents of this world
Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice,
And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself
Buys out the law. . .
(Claudius, from Hamlet, Act 3, scene 3)
William Shakespeare
#89. To fight with desire is hard: whatever it wishes, it buys at the price of soul.
Heraclitus
#90. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until the day before his anniversary to buy his wife a gift.
Rita Rudner
#91. I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
Carine Roitfeld
#92. Anyway, a man who buys a woman a book this nice is looking to be more than just an acquaintance.
Charlie Lovett
#93. A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.
Zac Goldsmith
#94. If a prisoner paints his cell in the prison, does it mean that he likes the prison? Why does he do so? It is because he has no choice. Similarly, one has no choice in the worldly life, and that is why he builds a house, buys car, builds a bungalow.
Dada Bhagwan
#95. It doesn't matter if anyone reads it, buys it, sponsors it or shares it. It matters that you show up.
Seth Godin
#96. The chief problem with the individual investor: He or she typically buys when the market is high and thinks it's going to go up, and sells when the market is low and thinks it's going to go down.
Harry Markowitz
#97. The new MX-5 is like the new Ford Mondeo and the Subaru
Legacy Outback. It is one of those cars that's absolutely brilliant ... and nobody buys it. You never see one on the road.
Jeremy Clarkson
#98. It's like, on my solo stuff, every single person who buys the record, gets it. On the other stuff, the masses ... when you have a hit on the radio, not everyone's going to get it. They are going to buy it for the hit.
Kip Winger
#99. You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets frustrated. After he pees in it himself, he likes the flavor much better, so he buys it.
Robert A. Heinlein
#100. A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.
Douglas Coupland
