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Quotes About Buyers

Price alone had become a trigger feature for quality; and a dramatic increase in price alone had led to a dramatic increase in sales among the quality-hungry buyers. Click, whirr!
~ Robert B. Cialdini
The 'Mexican drug problem' is not the Mexican drug problem. It is the American drug problem. We are the buyers, and without buyers, there can be no sellers.
~ Don Winslow
If you've got a classic car look back in your log book and see if any of the previous owners will be happy to give you photos of the car in its heyday. You'll find that more often than not they'll be happy to share memories of it and it'll make it more appealing to potential buyers.
~ Edd China
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
A lot of times, projects happen just to influence the distributors or buyers.
~ Priyadarshan
The first four steps of selling are familiar to most people. Being a successful salesman requires: Having a product to sell that other people value. Locating a market (i.e., buyers) for your product. Implementing a sales presentation and/or marketing strategy. Closing the sale. These four steps have been discussed in many sales books, but, remarkably, I've never seen the fifth—and most important—step discussed in any book: 5. GETTING PAID!
~ Robert J. Ringer
As Keynes observed, there cannot be "liquidity" for the community as a whole.6 The mistake is in thinking that markets have a duty to stay liquid or that buyers will always be present to accommodate sellers.
~ Roger Lowenstein
He said that the first holders were not simply noble victims, nor were the current buyers simply predatory speculators. The original investors had gotten cash when they wanted it and had shown little faith in the country's future. Speculators, meanwhile, had hazarded their money and should be rewarded for the risk.
~ Ron Chernow
You know what buyers pick as the differentiator in their decisions? The sales experience* itself—what it's like working with you during the course of all your interactions. They think this experience as a whole is more important than all the other factors combined.
~ Jill Konrath
Identify stories that pique buyers' curiosity and move them to action.
~ Jill Konrath
These five forces—the intensity of rivalry among existing competitors, the bargaining power of buyers (the industry's customers), the bargaining power of suppliers, the threat of substitutes, and the threat of new entrants—determine the industry's structure
~ Joan Magretta
If you have powerful buyers (that is, customers), they will use their clout to force prices down. They may also demand that you put more value into the product or service. In either case, industry profitability will be lower because customers will capture more of the value for themselves.
~ Joan Magretta
Powerful buyers will force prices down or demand more value in the product, thus capturing more of the value for themselves.
~ Joan Magretta
Sometimes, indeed, it seemed to me that the really important exchange was the freedom, with the mushroom-and-money trophies as extensions– proofs, as it were– of the performance. After all, it was the feeling of freedom, galvanizing "mushroom fever," that energized buyers to put on their best shows and pressed pickers to get up the next dawn to search for mushrooms again.
~ Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
I was great at testing products at 20,000 feet, but talking them up to buyers? No, not really.
~ Jeff Lowe
Hamilton stole the moral high ground from opponents and established the legal and moral basis for securities trading in America: the notion that securities are freely transferable and that buyers assume all rights to profit or loss in transactions.
~ Ron Chernow
Buyers of anything are looking for value. They are looking for a way to solve problems or create opportunities. No matter what the buyer says, price is never the only consideration. Value always has and always will be the primary buying factor.
~ Joe Calloway
The PMRC pressured the music industry to establish a rating system that would warn potential record buyers of sexually explicit and violent lyrics. Their purchases may as well have carried stickers emblazoned with 'THIS RECORD CONTAINS SEX AND DRUGS AND ROCK'N'ROLL!
~ Dylan Jones
A sing-song of shouts filled the air as the merchants tried to attract buyers. Their voices had that end of the workday lift - a false brilliance composed of the hope that old dreams would be fulfilled, yet coloured by the knowledge that life would not change for them.
~ Frank Herbert
Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as a tool of state aggrandizement, in which the private parties are stand-ins for governmental interests.
~ Charles C. Mann
A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.
~ Barbara Corcoran
Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.
~ Jhonen Vasquez
Consumers today have become a cynical mob of buyers who believe the reviews and ratings of complete strangers much more readily than your brand's promises and distinctions.
~ David Brier
The marketing department uses many advanced techniques to match products and buyers in a way that mximizes profits. For example, they give away keychains.
~ Scott Adams