Quotes About Purchases

As a result, the American Dream became extremely useful in pitches for consumer products that encourage potential purchasers to feel better about their purchases, such as a new home or a second car. In fact, ProQuest News & Newspapers shows that more than half the use of the phrase American Dream has occurred in advertisements rather than articles.

It is the turnover, not the volume of purchases, that measures success in the life of homo consumens.

According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purchased with it, bears a greater or smaller proportion to the number of those who are to consume it, the nation will be better or worse supplied with all the necessaries and conveniencies for which it has occasion.

Lauriat made his first trip in 1873 on one of Cunard's earliest steamers, the Atlas. His purchases routinely made news. One acquisition, of a Bible dating to 1599, a Geneva, or "Breeches," Bible—so named because it used the word breeches to describe what Adam and Eve wore—drew nearly a full column in the New York Times.

With more than a million Texans licensed to carry handguns, the state is actually far behind Florida, with 1.7 million. I'm EMBARRASSED, Governor Greg Abbott tweeted in 2015; Texas #2 in nation for new gun purchases, behind CALIFORNIA. Let's pick up the pace Texans. @NRA

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The fact is that roughly two-thirds of all fiction purchases are made because the consumer is already familiar with the author.

I don't shop online, but my wife buys everything at home. We buy sea crabs, fresh crabs, all kinds of things.

You get more irrationality within the family and in consumer behavior than you get, say, in the behavior of firms in their purchases.

I try to use my debit card rather than a credit card, but I will use a credit card for big purchases because I bank with Coutts and I get points.

I would support requiring an eligibility certificate for long-gun purchases because a permit gives the impression that someone could carry it loaded outside the home. That's not what we want to do.

Illiquid asset purchases are all about capital and encouraging private capital to come in.

When we make purchases on credit, they give us only an illusion of prosperity.

The framers never intended an infinitely broad Commerce Clause that would let Congress dictate individuals' purchases.

I have never had the money to make too many large purchases.

There are lots of families who - who make irresponsible purchases. There are also a lot of families who have debt on credit cards because they use those credit cards to pay for medical bills.

We women make the lion's share of household purchases in this country. We ourselves drive billions of dollars a year in sales.

Quite often the federal government purchases things at prices higher than individuals in the private marketplace.

We have invested in many of our customers in the health care business by lending or leasing money for equipment purchases or investing in some customers to help them grow business.

Much of what we buy relies on products from the EU - purchases that British importers make in euros.

So the idea of being able to shop cross-category to buy the beach bag, the summer lip gloss, and the pillows for your pool house makes it into very focused, easy life.

Average household credit card debt topped the landmark of $10,000 in 2006, a hundredfold increase over the average consumer debt in the 1960s. One consequence: Much of the material buried in landfills in recent years was bought with those same credit cards, leading to the quintessentially American practice of consumers continuing to pay, sometimes for years, for purchases after they become trash.

People will buy products for quality, and they will buy products for bargains.

I'm a very fast shopper. I'm very quick; whether it's big money or small money, it really doesn't matter to me. I just get all my things that I need together and get out as quickly as possible.