Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Ritholtz

Any time you speak to people about their posture, you learn about their most recent investment activity. When someone just bought stocks, they tend to be bullish; someone who just sold is bearish.

Barry Ritholtz

Any investment bought via credit always runs the risk of margin calls and, eventually, liquidation.

We came in after dark after working that last night, and the whole community showed up at that house to cook for us. They cooked us cakes and jambalaya -- the whole community kicked in and bought everything.

Kelly Scott

We picked and we chose the right moments. And when we did choose them, we totally bought into them. It worked.

When Procter & Gamble bought Gillette, the governor and other leaders were successful in urging the company to maintain research and development in Massachusetts. Mass. Business Connect is intended to connect other businesses to the state's highly trained work force and the research and development opportunities at our many colleges and universities.

When prices go up, buyers say, 'Look how much money I would have saved if I bought last year, and if I don't buy now, I won't be able a new home next year,'

Rupert Holmes

But thankfully, my first album, 'Wide Screen,' was sort of a critics' darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies; I wasn't even in the running for failure!

Roger Ascham

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

We were working on three sites when we bought it.

Paul Otellini

We have found that the same families who bought a $1,500 PC for the home are now buying a second PC for about $1,000,

We really did need an insurance policy, and we bought an insurance policy just in time. The test is going to be: Did we buy a big enough insurance policy? And we will know in the fourth quarter.

When I was eight, I bought my first puppet. It was a monkey, and I paid five cents for it. I collected some scrap wood and built myself a puppet theatre. I made 32 cents with my first show, which I thought was pretty good, and that's when I knew I would be a puppeteer when I grew up.

When people bought these funds, they bought them because they wanted me to manage the funds, not the directors.

Hamdi Ulukaya

We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.

The problem is that all those shares had already risen enough. People who bought them now keep asking: 'Why our stocks are not growing?' - and they are not rising exactly because those people already bought them. The price is high.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

We cannot consume our way into personal growth. Yet, millions of us have bought into this cynical concept of faux identity.

Marianne Faithfull

I want to see my grandchildren grow up. I want to be there for my friends. I want to be able to love the person in my life. I want to work. I want to do something I've never done, which is save money. I've never bought anything. I have nothing.

J. K. Rowling

The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

Kim Gordon

I really want to start playing basketball. I actually bought a new basketball.

Marc Andreessen

Most of the software ideas of the late '90s which people tried and failed on--customer relationship management, marketing analytics, supply chain management, B2B procurement--those ideas all made sense and had good business justifications. But the tech wasn't quite there. Many customers who bought early feel bitter. But at some point those things will hit the mainstream and work.

Jeremy Jackson

Most cornmeal producers don't tell you when their cornmeal was milled, which makes it difficult to know how long the product has been sitting in the store before you bought it.

Mike Ferguson

Why would the investment group want to move the corporate headquarters? If Kroger's bought the company, then we'd probably be looking at some major changes in the Treasure Valley.

Adam Sandler

We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big.

We just bought the Green Medical Clinic and we're now renovating it.

You can get them on $100 of expenditure, for whatever is bought with that $100.

You can do with the CD you bought what you do with it if you're within the realm of personal use,

I think they're going to get bought out by somebody, ... Could be (a company) like Deutsche Telecom.

I think they're going to get bought out by somebody,

Manuel has brought stability, he has bought long term predictability, he has brought pragmatism to the whole field of the budget and the economy.

Bobby Bowden

Well, (Ann) brought a tree and bought Christmas packages for the whole world, and what she didn't buy, she charged. I'm the only one to lose money at a bowl.

Well, it's about quarter of a million dollars. But, thankfully we bought insurance...

We had just bought all new equipment, and it was under water Friday. Thankfully, we dried it off and it all survived, except for the computer system and the credit card swipe. The showroom still isn't open.

Brittany Howard

We had a music teacher in sixth grade, and I saw her tune her guitar. I said, 'Whoa. There's a certain way to do this.' I bought a packet of strings - some of mine were broken - and had her tune it for me. For a while, I just kept it like that. But I got the Internet finally, when I was 14, and started learning.