Quotes About Purchase

I didn't buy the Porsche for status. I hate that, and it's actually kind of goofy now because in L.A., a Porsche is like a Honda. It was just that I could pay that much money for a car and drive it off the lot.

Human nature says that you want a bargain, whether you want the goods or not. You think that something is a steal, you'll buy it.

See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.

The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.

When I received my first paycheck from my now known day job, I spent it on a period Craftsman chair and a Frank Lloyd Wright-wannabe lamp. With my second paycheck, I bought a stereo.

For long rides, I require a stimulating conversation partner with deep reservoirs of cultural references upon which my metaphors can find purchase….

When I bought 'The New York Observer,' my experience in journalism was limited to a single article I had written for a college magazine.

It's going to be so obvious when something isn't well made for VR. People are going to use the best VR content. That's the stuff that's going to get shown to people. That's the stuff that's going to get demoed. That's most of what people are going to buy.

I think you're too smart to write the kind of book that would please the kind of reader who would buy a book with that title.

But the people who had to use the software were never actually consulted in the purchase cycle, so why bother to

But the people who had to use the software were never actually consulted in the purchase cycle, so why bother to make the software any good for those people?

It's a bit o' real lace, ses the gal, twisting her 'ead round to look at the collar; it cost me one and two-three only last night. One an' wot? ses Charlie, who, not being a married man, didn't understand 'er. One shilling, ses the gal, two pennies, and three farthings. D'ye understand that?

And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.

released that year, and the following year Apple's purchase of NeXT offered him reentry into the company he had founded.

A good business is not always a good purchase - although it's a good place to look for one.

We select such investments on a long-term basis, weighing the same factors as would be involved in the purchase of 100% of an operating business: (1) favorable long-term economic characteristics; (2) competent and honest management; (3) purchase price attractive when measured against the yardstick of value to a private owner; and (4) an industry with which we are familiar and whose long-term business characteristics we feel competent to judge.

Of course, a business with terrific economics can be a bad investment if the purchase price is excessive.

Nothing can make me happy. Happiness and inspiration are what I bring to life, not what I purchase.

I should ask, in the first place, whether or not I wish to purchase a solution to a problem that I do not have.

and Mr. Klugman went to the store every day and

An REI worker had encouraged me to buy a box of Spenco 2nd Skin—gel patches meant to treat burns that also happened to be great for blisters.

Climate... is what a locality has when you are buying a home there, and weather is what it has afterwards.

Those who can hear the whisper as you heard it will have to make a decision in the struggle. Will they part with some hard earned bucks to buy the book or pass it by? See, they get to make a choice in the struggle with their own free will and they have to put some effort into the struggle to get the book, just like you did. Will they choose right or will they choose wrong? It's a fork in the path of their existence that they face and no one can give them a free ride down the right path.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.