Quotes About Buying

People rationalize buying decisions based on facts, but they make buying decisions based on feelings.

Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry — I say to myself, "What a pity I can't buy that book, for I already have a copy at home.

It is in all our interests that the government, when buying goods or services, pays the lowest price.

A lot of players try to buy penalties, and sometimes defenders can't do a lot about it.

Here is my general approach to the energy companies. You have already charged the utilities a 50 percent credit penalty for the power they were buying from you. You're charging us a penalty. You're not going to get two bites of the apple here.

But above all, buying is a profound pleasure: it is a discovery, almost an invention.

If you take away the presence of the salesman from the process of buying, you change the nature of shopping out of all recognition because you remove the element of interaction between two people.

If you take away the presence of the salesman from the process of buying, you change the nature of shopping out of all recognition because you remove the element of interaction between two people. Such

The dominant advertising advantage of Clinton, with spending of 10 to 1 over Trump, reinforced the perception that she was trying to buy, rather than earn, votes.

Cigarette companies succeeded in using these methods to cast doubt on scientific findings that smoking was bad for health; and firms of all kinds succeed in persuading individuals to buy products that they might not otherwise have bought

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Ford Prefect was indeed in a seedy bar trying to talk somebody into buying him a drink and only achieving success as a total failure in this venture. The expression 'It is far better to give than receive' referred only to physical violence in this bar.

One of the commitments that I personally have now is to a diverse approach to buying businesses, and the operation of those businesses.

I want people to buy British because it's the tastiest food and the most exciting food.

Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious - they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you.

decades, China had been quietly buying property—and loyalty—in third-world countries while the other major powers squabbled nose to nose.

We're talking to every third-party supplier every day of the week, and our traders are talking to them and buying products from them. When we're doing that, we see opportunities which no one else sees.

Eminem knows that Republicans buy songs - his songs - too. His message to them is to stop buying.

There's a lot of drama that goes into just buying a house, let alone renovating a house.

Look, dry-aged meat is amazing and certainly worth buying when you can afford it.

The first time I thought about buying my own clothes was the first time I had money to do so.

One of the challenges of buying local advertising is, how do you know if it worked? How do you know if it's got value? We're moving toward an e-commerce experience for local, an Amazon-like experience for local.

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.

Our daily habits of driving, drilling, buying and supporting all of the economic benefits a free economy demands has cost us dearly, but none more so than for the people of Shishmaref.