Famous Quotes & Sayings

Obviously, there's been pent-up demand that has materialized since 9/11. Everyone stopped buying for a while.

Chrissie Hynde

Obviously it's not just the Gap. But until they stop using leather from India and China, we should stop buying it.

Elon Musk

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.

Nobody's going to buy these stocks on third quarter guidance and numbers.

Slim Jimmy

'No Flex Zone' is when somebody walks in and accuses you of stealing their cellphone, and you didn't, and you know in your pocket you have enough money to buy their cellphone, and you have your own.

Richard Wright

Nobody has any confidence. Nobody wants to buy anything and if they do buy anything they're wrong within about 10 minutes. It's fairly gloomy.

Given the low rating of the shares, we would hope they would be buying them and indeed they are,

Given the license revenue performance and our view that the company is moving in the right direction, we would be buying shares on weakness today.

Given that buying a home is probably the largest purchase most people in this country make, decision support is important to the seller and the buyer.

Getting rid of GMAC wouldn't get GM itself back to profitability but what it would do is buy them some time and that's critical in this business. They need some time to get some decent product to the marketplace.

Gift cards are popular because you don't have to buy a gift, ... You just have to know where they like to shop.

GE will probably talk up their numbers, but I don't know if I buy it.

GE will not go out and buy a blockbuster company.

For years, that's been the big impediment to buying AK Steel.

Ellen Goodman

Frankly, people who buy Showtime pay-per-view are supporting him and supporting the notion that you can get away with anything.

John Battelle

Founded by an ex-Apple employee, Nest devices do for thermostats and smoke alarms what the Mac did for PCs - Google Buys Nest made them relevant and far more valuable.

Four refineries may come back in the next two or three weeks. For another three or four refineries at least, we will probably have to wait for more than a month. We have seen some efforts by the U.S. government telling people not to buy gasoline if they don't need it, to conserve energy.

From a fundamental basis, which is 99.9 percent of what we care about, it makes no difference. I'm not going out to buy more stock because of a change of name.

From a consumer's point of view, if you buy a Blu-ray player, you're going to have a much easier time finding content than ever before.

From a short-term perspective, the market is expecting reasonable growth for Yahoo! so that makes it a safer stock to buy today.

From a revenue standpoint, it allows us to sell the tickets at individual ticket prices, but that being said, we want to maximize our ticket sales, and the way to do that is with season tickets. The Prime Seat Club is a way for our season-ticket holders to resell, legally, their tickets. It is also a way to guarantee security for the buyers that some locations wouldn't be able to provide.

From an economic development standpoint, most of the people who work there spend income on basics, and there's an immediate turnover into local economy. They buy groceries, pay rent and the money is quickly put back into the local economy.

From Day 1, we've stressed defense, defense, defense. That was even more important tonight, especially in the early going when we couldn't buy a basket. To hold them to 14 points in the first half was huge.

From a very simplistic point of view, consumers will probably start to see better prices and better quality of goods. When the quality and price is right, consumers shop more frequently and they buy more.

Fukui will probably reiterate prospects for steady economic recovery. Even if Fukui says the same thing as before, some investors will use it as an excuse to buy the yen as the dollar is going through a short- term decline.

Funds' selective buying helped support the index. The market extended its gains in late trade also due to some futures-related trading.

Funds are buying gold because they notice the decoupling from the euro and the decoupling from the energy market.

Funds are buying and China's demand is still healthy. The sharp rise was to catch up with gains in London in the past week.

Fundamentals are not really a worry. However, foreign investors are selling. If they start selling, other investors have a hard time buying aggressively.

I don't think his style has changed that much, but his emphasis has. The emphasis now is on him to buy time to throw rather than scramble.

Joe Johnson

If all municipalities don't buy into this and pay their share, they're pretty much done.

If a product is more expensive than another one and more sustainable in ecology, consumers will not buy it. We're in a very sharp competitive market.

If a company does get caught, it's too late to go out and buy the software, ... Otherwise there's no incentive for companies to deal with this on their own. We make it expensive for the companies that get caught.