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Quotes About Buying

We discussed buying a defender. The view was the priority at that time given the way we were playing was that we needed support up front and that is why we bought Louis Saha.
~ David Gill
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
We know what the customer wants, and so we're buying in a totally different way.
~ Matthew Williamson
You don't need personal fabrication in the home to buy what you can buy because you can buy it. You need it for what makes you unique, just like personalization.
~ Neil Gershenfeld
Reach deep into your wallet and buy a decent mule.
~ Robert Fitterman
A born contrarian, Rockefeller insisted upon buying in declining markets and selling in rising ones.
~ Ron Chernow
At the time, Lawson noted, Standard Oil was considered "the greatest power in the land," and its supposed involvement had stimulated a buying mania.60
~ Ron Chernow
To complicate matters, new refiners now entered the business expressly to blackmail him into buying them out.
~ Ron Chernow
To assign to everybody his proper place in society is the task of the consumers. Their buying and abstention from buying is instrumental in determining each individual's social position.
~ Ludwig von Mises
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
~ Cornel West
Targeted advertising of this kind is often held up as the quintessence of a scientific approach. But again, at least some of those consumers, and possibly many of them, would have bought the products anyway. As a result, the ads were just as wasted on them as they were on consumers who saw the ads and weren't interested.
~ Duncan J. Watts
People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
~ Zig Ziglar
Vlad looked around. "Are we providing shelter, or are the humans actually buying books?
~ Anne Bishop
She was determined to buy whatever he was selling.
~ Anne Taintor
We buy and sell goods. We buy low and sell higher - that's what we all do to make a profit. But I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.
~ Mickey Drexler
Don't be buying out of emotion. Buy less if you love something but feel it's a risky item. We don't want overstock. And remember: No profit, no fun!
~ Mickey Drexler
My girlfriend buys stuff from Trader Joe's, and it's just subpar. When you buy a burrito, it crumbles the way a proper burrito shouldn't. Everything's just crap there.
~ Jim Jefferies
Capitalism is characterized by an entire cultural mindset, in that 'exchange relationships, that of buying and selling, have permeated most of the society.
~ Eva Illouz
Because of economics, you have to feed the demographics that are buying your product. So, as Asia becomes a much more economic influence on the products that are being made from America, I think people have to be sensitive.
~ Sung Kang
We discovered that there are actually fewer companies actually buying data.
~ Noam Bardin
Actors are sellers, and I figured out a long time ago that if you wanted to work a lot, you had to be on the buying side.
~ Jason Bateman
Let me tell you, one of the most proud aspects of my career was buying Indymac during the financial crisis.
~ Steve Mnuchin
A broad trend I'm completely obsessed with is mobile commerce. Like completely. I'm completely convinced that everybody's going to be buying from their mobile devices. Whoever can claim that space or be in that space, I'm very interested in.
~ Gary Vaynerchuk
I'm a suit guy. I like wearing them for the sense of completion they offer. I like buying them for the sense of near permanence - the knowledge that whatever I buy will be part of my life for the next ten years or so.
~ Tom Junod