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Quotes About Purchase

The purchase and sale of slaves is also in its form a purchase and sale of commodities. Without the existence of slaves, however, money cannot fulfil this function. If there is slavery, then money can be spent on the acquisition of slaves. But money in the hand of the buyer is in no way a sufficient condition for the existence of slavery.
~ Karl Marx
Whereas in the earlier forms of the family men never lacked women, but, on the contrary, had too many rather than too few, women had now become scarce and highly sought after. Hence it is with the pairing marriage that there begins the capture and purchase of women-wide-spread symptoms, but no more than symptoms, of the much deeper change that had occurred.
~ Karl Marx
No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.
~ William Petty
Nothing that man can present to God by way of sacrifice can ever purchase the blessing of forgiveness.
~ Charles Spurgeon
A man walked into a shop and asked, "How much are your eggs?" He said "£1.40 a dozen". He then asked: "How much are your cracked ones?" He said: "35p". He said: "Crack us four dozen."
~ Frank Carson
And then the man reminded Max, with a serious but suave and practiced air, that freedom was a debt that could be repaid only by purchasing the freedom of others.
~ Michael Chabon
He's a wealthy man, a very wealthy man. If you have a half a million-dollar purchase from Tiffany's, you're not a middle-class American.
~ Mitt Romney
It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
~ Dave Barry
If money can't buy happiness, then I guess I'll have to rent it.
~ Al Yankovic
When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.
~ John Ruskin
A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
~ William Feather
It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Didn't you take economics? You could have had me for $49.95.
~ Patrick Dempsey
First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
~ Jack L. Chalker
Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
I can't give money away to buy listeners. I can't pay listeners off with phones or food stamps or anything. I can't come by my audience by buying it.
~ Rush Limbaugh
There is always going to be that luxury customer out there. I have clients who buy $10, 000 dresses and clients who buy $60 dresses. It's not so much about the money. Design is a mentality.
~ Jason Wu
So, I'm getting less chips, paying the same amount of money. Is that legal for them to do this?
~ Julie Chen
Your competition is EVERYTHING else your prospect could conceivably spend their money on.
~ Don Cooper
I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.
~ Steven Wright
Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect
~ Adam Clarke
And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.
~ Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
~ Imelda Marcos
There was a product which seemed attractive, expensive, portable, beautiful and simple. Everybody talked about its beauty but they bought it for it's simplicity.
~ Amit Kalantri