Quotes About Buying

One of the Internet's highest-profile companies, Priceline once dreamed of transforming the way consumer goods are bought and sold by offering customers the chance to 'name your own price' for a variety of products, including airline tickets.

The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up.

What people really haven't thought about with real estate is, if you get tax reform, you're going to see real estate now... the velocity of selling and buying real estate will just kick.

Semiotic was the form Zipperstein`s midlife crisis had taken... Instead of buying sports car, he'd bought deconstrution.

I'm up all night, and then next thing you know, it's the morning, and I'll sleep, like, three hours. I'm a night owl. I'm usually in the studio at night working, and then I get home, I'm on my phone looking at Instagram pictures and buying stuff.

It's about really being considerate of the culture in the game studios that Activision buys. That's the biggest difference between us and any of our competitors.

You can learn the subtle language of interior style, but many people simply buy it. If you put yourself in the hands of someone who knows what they are doing, you can be confident it will look good.

There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a subway that runs through downtown.

What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

In our business, except in media buying, there are few economies of scale. Client perception of creative agencies is that the bigger they are, the worse they are.

The idea of land 'ownership' as such was an alien one. A white farmer once told me of his grandfather going to see a local chief about buying some land. 'Buy land?' said the chief. 'You must be crazy, you don't buy the wind or the water or the trees.

while most providers sell on the basis of technical competence, most buyers buy on the basis of emotion.

The churchyard. Walled in by houses and overrun with weeds, choked up with too much buying.

If finding an apartment is like falling in love, buying one is like proposing on your first date and agreeing not to see each other until the wedding.

We've made bad albums in the past, and people have bought them. I don't know. I don't care. I'm just grateful for it.

I buy a lot of art. I buy Andy Warhols.

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

There is actually quite a lot of crossover between the quacks and drug companies. They use the same tricks and tactics to bamboozle people into buying their pills, but drug firms can afford to use slightly more sophisticated versions.

A whole new generation is looking at the videos, and going to the video shop and buying the re-release of the complete trilogy, which you can buy at a reasonable price.

One question: would you have called buying pastel linen dresses for Saigon a mark of 'privilege'? Or would you have called it more a mark of bone stupidity?

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.

I don't know anything about antiques. I do buy them now, but I have a little knowledge, and great enthusiasm.

For a long time I had a vintage stall, where I sold men's vintage clothing, and my girlfriend was convinced it was just to do with a problem I had where I just couldn't stop buying senseless clothes, even if they didn't fit me.

And I also think it's a violin when you're selling it and a fiddle when you're buying it.