Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gian Carlo Menotti

There are three reasons why I live in Scotland. First, I like silence, and you have to be a millionaire to buy silence in Italy. Second, I like cold weather. Third, in Italy I have too many relatives and know too many people, so I never get a quiet time.

G-Eazy

Word of mouth is the most valuable form of marketing, but you can't buy it. You can only deliver it. And you have to really deliver.

I've never worn costume jewelry in my life. It's really very self-defeating. Why should a man buy a woman real jewelry when she wears false pieces?

Frank Oz

I don't buy diamonds, I don't buy cars, but I enjoy travelling. I'm not a very possessive person as far as things go.

For the price of a couple of Happy Meals, you can buy a digital textbook and stop your child from having to carry around a six-pound book.

I know exactly what I want to buy and I spend very little time, maybe 15 hours a year, buying stuff. I'll go in and out of Dunhill in 45 minutes and pick out a few suits. Boom. And I'm gone. I get my shirts at Charvet. I go in there - woosh - and buy 12 shirts and some ties; once a year and that's it.

Evan Williams

The promoted tweet is a real tweet that a company may have sent out that they want more distribution for. They will buy key words for it. If people are looking for something related, it will show up.

Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers.

Flo Rida

If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I'm busy so they'll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that's very important.

Conor Oberst

I read the newspaper online. Mostly 'The New York Times.' I'll still buy papers if I'm getting on an airplane or the tour bus, though. I like physical things.

Andy Stanley

The church wasn't an organization in the first century. They weren't writing checks or buying property. The church has matured and developed over the years. But for some reason, the last thing to change is the structure of leadership.

Angela Ahrendts

We have always said actually this isn't about money, it's not about price. This can be an experience. It doesn't have to be about buying something.

Andrew Tobias

The larger the deductible you choose, the less insurance you are buying. Insurers want to sell insurance.

Amelia Warner

There's no buying a greasy breakfast in L.A. - it's all organic juices.

Robert Reich

Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs.

The conversion of 'I think it's unique' to 'I will buy it' is much higher for HD-DVD.

Steve Shaw

The control elements can handle a lot of calls, as all they're doing is setting them up. Then the switching elements can be optimized and placed where needed, vs. buying monolithic switches and putting them everywhere.

The fact of the matter is when you're dealing with a refrigerator or any of these other energy efficient (appliances) you don't just buy it in October. You buy a refrigerator when it breaks.

Jack Baker

What is the compelling reason to buy stocks right now? There isn't one. If you're looking out six, 12, 18 months, there are some good ideas, but right now there's no incentive to buy,

Robert Barry

What investor wants to buy a company that sells plastics to GM when plastics are going through the roof while the prices GM pays go down?

Ramsey Clark

What incredible insanity is driving us to hold this child, to glorify the grossness of our materialism as if you can buy the soul of a child,

What I'm seeing is that confidence in the Japanese economy is starting to gain. And as people get more comfortable investing in Japanese equities and other Japanese assets, they need to buy yen. And as they buy these yen, the dollar goes down.

Marc Benioff

What if there was an eBay of applications, where companies could buy and sell software, running on our platform? ... What if there was an iTunes Music Store of online applications?

Lindsay Fox

One of the nicest things about receiving the accolade of Australia is that, previously, the knighthood was historically for what was termed 'the establishment.' Now, this is an accolade for somebody who comes from a working-class background. Someone whose father was a truck driver and decided to buy a truck.

Kevin O'Leary

Until Americans feel that their core asset - their homes - are stabilized, they are not going to have the animal spirits and they will continue to have less buying power.

Lily Cole

I'm not against people buying clothes; I think clothes are wonderful, and I'm very materialistic myself - but there's a way of finding a compromise. I just think we can buy less and pay more, to make sure people aren't being exploited.

Don Nickles

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.

Cornel West

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

Know the company you're buying from, ... I would opt for purchasing directly from a Hertz or Enterprise. But I'd be careful of vehicles that come from corporations. They can generate lots of mileage.

Kevin Ford

Kids like that are just a testament to putting their time in the right environment. I always tell them, if you buy into the system it'll pay off.

Kids go by all the time to buy one. I don't think there is a kid that doesn't get one.

I would think they would have to come down over time. How fast and how far depends on how much fear stays in the consumer marketplace. Panic buying spurs some of this.

I wouldn't be surprised if the market wakes up tomorrow and buys them (stocks) back again.