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Quotes About Buying

Eve engaged her On Duty sign and stepped out of the car. Immediately her ears were assaulted with a blast of music. Christmas carols pumped, full blast, into the air. She decided that people ran inside, ready to buy anything, just to escape the noise.
~ J.D. Robb
I am such a music fiend. I go after so many different types of music. I'm on iTunes constantly just buying new music!
~ Austin Butler
'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
~ Tahl Raz
There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
~ Plato
We've become a nation of defaulters: we buy on credit, and when the bill comes in, we're so deeply outraged that we refuse even to look at it.
~ Tana French
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.
~ Bruce Springsteen
The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
~ Ludwig von Mises
This land used to yield. Rains used not to fail. What happened?' inquired Ruoro. It was Muturi who answered. 'You forget that in those days the land was not for buying. It was for use. It was also plenty, you need not have beaten one yard over and over again.
~ Ng?g? wa Thiong'o
My mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying!
~ Lindsay Lohan
For the tourist, immersed in the oblivion of vacation spending, Cypress Street provided a bonanza of curious gifts to prove to the folks back home that they had been somewhere. Somewhere where they had obviously forgotten that soon they would return home to a mortgage, dental bills, and an American Express bill that would descend at the end of the month like a financial Angel of Death. And they bought. They bought effigies of
~ Christopher Moore
But he could feel nothing but disdain for the artificial class of the merchant, who sucks up his living through buying and selling things he does not create, who collects power and wealth out of proportion to his discrimination, and who is responsible for all that is kitsch, for all that is change without progress, for all that is consumption without use.
~ Trevanian
When one comes to the ultra-modern profession of advertising, responded Schliemann—the science of persuading people to buy what they do not want—he is in the very center of the ghastly charnel house of capitalist destructiveness
~ Upton Sinclair
Traders must have noted that when they sell, the share price does not fall sharply but the day they buy it falls from that moment and very sharply.Trading Terminal provided by brokers can sense your intention
~ Lakshheish M Patel
You take sides if your smart. Offer up your loyalty cause it's all you've got to trade. Trouble is, most times, when you're looking to sell your soul, nobody's buying." - Radiance
~ Catherynne Valente
And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years.
~ Gianni Agnelli
Telling a farmer only that he is leasing twenty acres of land is about as helpful as telling a scholar that he has bought six kilograms of books.
~ James C. Scott
We see that hyperactivity and reward areas are important when the bubble's rising. People getting caught up in it. We also see areas involving mentalizing, which means thinking about other people: Who's buying? Who's selling? Do they know something? We see emotional areas before the crash that indicate a sense of uncertainty or dread.
~ Colin Camerer
One of the things which make any company successful, in particular the Home Depot, was that we understood and catered to the customer. If it didn't sell, it didn't make a difference what we thought or our research told us. They told us if it was successful by buying it or not.
~ Bernard Marcus
I'm not the kind of guy that really buys clothing. I'm lucky. Most of the time, if I want something, I can get it from my sponsors.
~ Georges St-Pierre
The truth is that if you don't buy, improving the squad becomes difficult.
~ Marco van Basten
This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.
~ Hernan Cortes
Impulse buying is not macho. Men rarely call the Home Shopping Network.
~ Rita Rudner
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The blessing that the market does not ask about birth is paid for in the exchange society by the fact that the possibilities conferred by birth are molded to fit the production of goods that can be bought on the market.
~ Theodor W. Adorno