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Quotes About Purchasing

Middle-class mothers and fathers turned out to be a very well-defined consumer group, easily gulled into buying almost anything that might remedy their parental deficiencies.
~ Jill Lepore
Let's face it, we can't shop for intelligence, creativity, or freedom.
~ Susie Bright
Establish the work-pay-purchase connection. As far as I am concerned there is no age too young to start learning that money must be earned to buy the things your family needs.
~ Suze Orman
Music is the soundtrack to your life. It's not going to go anywhere. But the way people are purchasing music has changed. It's not the same anymore. It will never be the same.
~ Jay-Z
Now, if most Americans want to go out and buy a car, they don't say, you know, 'I think I'll call the chairman of the board of Ford Motor Company and see what kind of deal we can make here.'
~ Jeb Hensarling
A woman will buy anything she thinks the store is losing money on.
~ Kin Hubbard
There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
~ Plato
High inflation rates may come along and diminish purchasing power.
~ Taylor Larimore
an increase in the supply of paper money, and hence a decrease in the purchasing power of the currencies in which most bonds were denominated. A rational investor who anticipated a major war would sell bonds in anticipation of these effects.
~ Niall Ferguson
They dug up so much silver to pay for their wars of conquest that the metal itself dramatically declined in value - that is to say, in its purchasing power with respect to other goods.
~ Niall Ferguson
and growing need for fixed income securities, and for low inflation to ensure that the interest they pay retains its purchasing power. As more and more people leave the workforce, recurrent public sector deficits ensure that the bond market will never be short of new bonds to sell.
~ Niall Ferguson
The modern-day dollar bill acquired its current design in 1957. Since then its purchasing power, relative to the consumer price index, has declined by a staggering 87 per cent. Average annual inflation in that period has been over 4 per cent
~ Niall Ferguson
Think about it. Women control 70 percent of global consumer spending . . . when women do better, economies do better.
~ Christine Lagarde
It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.
~ Adam Smith
Reklamlar insanlar? gerek duymad?klar? arabalar?n ve k?yafetlerin peÅŸinden koÅŸturuyor. Kaç kuÅŸakt?r insanlar nefret ettikleri iÅŸlerde çal???yorlar; neden? Gerçekte ihtiyaç duymad?klar? ÅŸeyleri sat?n alabilmek için.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
People are sold over this desk just like cattle in the Chicago yards, and for exactly the same reason: they've got the points the buyer wants. All right, now take a look at something that does concern you. See those greens? That means 'No Married Women.
~ James M. Cain
Most books are bought by women.
~ Gloria Steinem
The big problem that is holding back Linux is games. People don't realize how critical games are in driving consumer purchasing behavior. We want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well.
~ Gabe Newell
One should also not haggle over prices when buying livestock in order to give meat to the needy. The same principle applies to purchasing other goods that are intended for charity as well.
~ Hamza Yusuf
Most shoppers don't buy everything they need at one store.
~ Charles Duhigg
I like to shop. That's what I do. Online shopping; any kind of shopping.
~ Sloane Stephens
El dinero no vale nada; lo que te compras sí.
~ William Faulkner
Si vuestros libros costaran lo que valen, yo no podría permitirme comprarlos.
~ Helene Hanff
Ask 100 people what they want and 80 will not know. 15 will claim to know. 5 will have a preference. The 95 are the market, few of the 5 are willing to pay… Don't listen to the 5% who request the changes. Listen to the 95% who buy without making a fuss!
~ Henry Ford