Quotes About Buying

Whether Congress decides to block GMO labeling is about more than the right to know what we're buying and eating. It's also about consumer confusion.

you gotta think it's a waste of—" "Ray!" I glanced around, but there was nobody within earshot. "Well, excuse me if I'm not used to buying condoms for aliens," he said more softly. "They're not aliens." "Well, they're not human. I mean, they could have anything under those tunics, you know?

Most people think buying is investing, but they're wrong. Buying doesn't make you an investor any more than buying groceries makes you a chef.

Paying supporters, not good governance or representing the general will, is the essence of ruling. Buying loyalty is particularly difficult

I do a lot of curiosity buying I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

Did I develop any ruses of my own in order to buy what I wanted at a reasonable price? In time, of course, anyone who has ever done real business in an oriental bazaar will learn the tricks and feints of buying and bargaining there.

Everything that works in sales has been done already. Just keep track of the crap that you buy, or the awesome stuff that you buy, and decide what was the trigger, and then just sell to people like you. It's really that easy - and that's what I do.

Since M.O.'s trunk shows will run during a brand's market week, designers can get immediate feedback from our high-end customers to help better shape their buying and production decisions. This keeps our members happy and can improve each brand's bottom line.

And where did this insane notion of buying loyalty come from? It's a contradiction in terms.

Companies are always being bought and sold. The markets are always moving; you have to be on top of your position. And in the U.S., the market is never closed for more than three days. The only time the market was ever closed was 9/11. I think it may have been closed the whole week.

People don't buy and sell art based on the personality of the artist. Or there wouldn't be much art bought and sold.

I've been into cars my whole life, I've always bought and sold a few here and there on the side, as kind of a hobby.

I have bought and sold and bought and sold things that have given me great pleasure over the years, and I find I go through phases of what I'm passionate about. And then the next thing comes along, and so the only way of being able to collect the next one is to sell a few of the other ones.

Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2, 000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.

Americans like buying American vs. buying from Chavez or buying from the Middle East.

Don't forget the real business of the war is buying and selling. The murdering and the violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals.

Don't forget the real business of the War is buying and selling. The murdering and the violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals.

Don't forget the real business of the War is buying and selling. The murdering and the violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals. The mass nature of wartime death is useful in many ways. It serves as spectacle, as diversion from the real movements of the War. It provides raw material to be recorded into History, so that children may be taught History as sequences of violence, battle after battle, and be more prepared for the adult world.

No. I'm not buying a shirt." I could buy you a shirt." I don't need you to buy me a shirt." Mercedes pulled him over to the nice GQ-dude who worked the department. "Tell him he needs a new shirt." I don't need a new shirt." Sir, you need a new shirt.

We discovered that the most important factor in successful selling has become the ability of sellers to collaborate with their buyers, at every stage of the buying process.

The next day she'd examined her red satin sandals and with a frown said, "I'm thinking about buying two snakes." His are you kidding me "Why?" had caused her to shrug. "I'd name them Leftie and Rightie and when they were big enough, they'd become Mamma's boots.

When pragmatists buy, they care about the company they are buying from, the quality of the product they are buying, the infrastructure of supporting products and system interfaces, and the reliability of the service they are going to get.

Positioning is the single largest influence on the buying decision.

Despite the hour, customers already flooded the market, men, women, and children of every color and race looking for the magic cure to their problems. They were what allowed the poachers to exist. They'd stop poaching if people stopped buying.