Buying famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...
-- A. Edward Newton -
Fashion is not about buying a second skin. Fashion is about having a fantasy.
-- Alber Elbaz -
There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.
-- Alex Kapranos -
Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.
-- Alice Walker -
There's no buying a greasy breakfast in L.A. - it's all organic juices.
-- Amelia Warner -
I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.
-- Andrew Motion -
The larger the deductible you choose, the less insurance you are buying. Insurers want to sell insurance.
-- Andrew Tobias -
Buying is more American than thinking, and I'm as American as they come.
-- Andy Warhol -
I love buying things. I could be one of those crazy hoarders.
-- Anna Chancellor -
I worked in between carpools and buying food and cooking and whatever else I had to do. I lived an outside life, but really I was living an inside life.
-- Anne Truitt -
It’s always going to be easy to live like others or other’s life, because creating or innovating something of own is always difficult in comparison to buying or borrowing anything from others.
-- Anuj -
You’re not buying news when you buy The New York Times. You’re buying judgment.
-- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger -
I can assure you that buying leases for x and selling them for 5x or 10x is a lot more profitable than trying to produce gas at $5 or $6 per million cubic feet.
-- Aubrey McClendon -
I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
-- Barbara Kruger -
...She's not buying [the lie], but there's nothing else on the shelves.
-- Barry Lyga -
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .
-- Bernard Arnault -
Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes.
-- Bethany McLean -
I never look at it like I'm wasting money when I'm buying gold.
-- Big Sean -
When you're buying a pair of TOMS, if you don't feel like you're part of a community, then I've failed.
-- Blake Mycoskie -
I love being a woman. I like dressing up; I love buying shoes.
-- Carly Fiorina -
Fashion is not an investment. If you wear a dress and don't get many compliments, you won't wear it again. It's not like buying bonds.
-- Carolina Herrera -
Small wastebasket liners, $1.17 ... tall wastebasket liners, $2.29 ... garbage can liners, $3.98 ... I think I just spent $7.44 buying something I'm going to throw away.
-- Cathy Guisewite -
Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.
-- Charles Saatchi -
The big money is not in the buying and selling ... but in the waiting.
-- Charlie Munger -
You know you're a hot mess when the only person buying you drinks all night is yourself.
-- Chelsea Handler -
I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.
-- Chief Joseph -
Even buying a swimsuit is super difficult. And then making one is even harder.
-- Chloe Sevigny -
I'm not making any money, but I view it as some sort of investment, or like buying myself a great present.
-- Christopher Owens -
I don't like having debts. I don't like buying anything that I can't buy in cash.
-- CM Punk -
Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed.
-- Craig Reucassel -
As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.
-- Damien Hirst -
If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.
-- Damien Hirst -
[I]t was the color of someone buying you an ice cream cone for no reason at all.
-- Daniel Handler -
Nothing you will ever do in your lifetime is likely to make you as much money as buying a home and living in it.
-- David Bach -
If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things we do. Go into a furniture store and look at a sofa.
-- David Brooks -
If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out - either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time.
-- David Ogilvy -
You cannot bore people into buying your product - you can only interest them in buying it.
-- David Ogilvy -
I never thought that buying supplements and vitamins, it was going to hurt anybody's feelings.
-- David Ortiz -
That's like buying asparagus and then leaving it at the checkout. Why would you do that?
-- Deborah King -
Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner.
-- Dervla Murphy -
How do I stop eleven million people from buying the grape?
-- Dolores Huerta -
But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.
-- Don Nickles -
Buying a lie is one thing, giving it away for free is quite another.
-- Douglas Horton -
Money can be issued only in the act of buying, and can be backed only in the act of selling. Any buyer who is also a seller is qualified to be a money issuer. Government, because it is not and should not be a seller, is not qualified to be a money issuer.
-- E.C. Riegel -
If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling.
-- Ed Begley, Jr. -
Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.
-- Edward Bellamy -
When you find that it fails to respond adequately to your buying you don't need any better tip to sell.
-- Edwin Lefevre -
If you're buying an album because of the face on it, you're stupid.
-- Enrique Iglesias -
I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.
-- Esther Williams -
We're constantly buying airplane tickets; we travel on the Concorde.
-- Eva Herzigova -
I'm opening the doors, I'm buying dinner. Yeah, I'm romantic.
-- Evan Rachel Wood -
For present buying, I go to Harrods because there are great personal shoppers, who point me in the right direction.
-- Frank Lampard -
Why would you pour a foundation, buy machines, hire employees, if you can make as much money buying bonds?
-- Frank Stronach -
I like collecting comics, I like buying comics, I like looking at comics, but I also read comics on digital readers.
-- Geoff Johns -
Once you start buying first aid kits you start having accidents.
-- George Mikes -
But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave.
-- Gilbert Parker -
Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me.
-- Glenn Danzig -
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
-- Gore Vidal -
To understand KKR, I always like to say, don't congratulate us when we buy a company. Any fool can buy a company. Congratulate us when we sell it and when we've done something with it and created real value.
-- Henry Kravis -
It's not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we've given them the right incentive to perform.
-- Henry Kravis -
Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public.
-- James Cash Penney -
We can serve our customers well only if our buying jobs are right. You cannot sell if you haven't ordered wanted goods into your store.
-- James Cash Penney -
Needless to say, I'll be buying my Irwin Tools at Lowe's.
-- Jamie McMurray -
I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.
-- Jared Kushner -
I'm not buying a boat because of writing skits.
-- Jason Sudeikis -
In business news, chocolate maker nestle is buying Jenny Craig. Well, that says it all you need to know about the war on obesity, doesn't it? It's over! Apparently we surrendered!
-- Jay Leno -
And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film.
-- Jenna Elfman -
When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?
-- Jerry Brown -
In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally.
-- Jim Balsillie -
The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do, deserve to lose money.
-- Jim Cramer -
Cena, love him or not, connects with the ticket buying public better than any one in the biz. End of story.
-- Jim Ross -
Women aren't embarrassed when they buy men's pajamas, but a man buying a nightgown acts as though he were dealing with a dope peddler.
-- Jimmy Cannon -
Nonsmokers should be banned from buying any product a smoker created.
-- Joe Strummer -
Unwarrantable installment buying is a pit into which those who covet fall.
-- John H. Vandenberg -
It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.
-- John Jay Chapman -
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith -
Have you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give to the poor some alms which will exceed the profit you have made.
-- John Vianney -
In writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the goods than the advertising writers because they have had experience in buying them...
-- John Wanamaker -
[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.
-- Johnny Depp -
I'm as embarrassed as hell about it. I purged myself of my shame by buying the Beatles 'all you need is love', one of the most evocative singles of all time.
-- Jon Snow -
With all this talk of Going Green, Buying Green, Living Green, and Green being the new whatever, I've come to realize that, although we had no green, my grandmother was actually the 'greenest' person I've ever known.
-- Joy Bryant -
One of the commitments that I personally have now is to a diverse approach to buying businesses, and the operation of those businesses.
-- Julius Erving -
I haven't bought anything excessive. I do plan on buying an island and filling it with baby tigers, though.
-- Kesha -
Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.
-- Laura Miller -
Being stuck in airports, you always end up buying perfume and sunglasses.
-- Lexa Doig -
Buying land is not like buying antique. It is not the only deal available.
-- Li Ka-shing -
My mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying!
-- Lindsay Lohan -
I've been buying the same lambrusco from Correggio [a town between Reggio-Emilia and Modena] since 1965.
-- Luciano Pavarotti -
I'm not just buying a car - I'm buying a lifestyle!
-- Lynn Johnston -
African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler Perrys career. His films open with $25 million almost consistently.
-- Lynn Nottage -
Corporations invest in sophisticated CRM, or Customer Relationship Management, programs to effectively oversee their relationship with their customers at every point during the buying process.
-- Marc Ostrofsky -
I ended up buying business.com for $150,000 because I wanted to make it a magazine. It would have been a 'Time'-type magazine: how to do business on the Internet. And I was offered a lot of money for that domain. I played two buyers against each other.
-- Marc Ostrofsky -
Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and selling products online.
-- Marc Ostrofsky
