Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're turning away 20 percent of the buyers these days.

Billy Davis

We're trying to teach defense and discipline, and the kids are buying into it.

We're looking at a company that's going to grow, I think, at about 14 percent over the next several years with, I might add, a lot of predictability and I think a lot of visibility and a high level of confidence, ... So with Merck at 31 times earnings now and down about 20 percent from its high, I think we're getting into an opportunity where it's a lot better than trying to buy a cyclical that's selling at 27 times earnings and where the visibility is a lot more questionable.

Alex Berenson

On the New York Stock Exchange, all buy and sell orders are routed through a single 'specialist,' guaranteeing that most small trades can be matched directly. But most larger trades are delivered to the specialist on the floor of the exchange by human brokers, a system that big investors view as increasingly inefficient.

Alex Berenson

Some companies use off-balance-sheet partnerships to raise money or to buy assets without ever telling their shareholders in their financial statements.

Emma Roberts

You don't realize how hard it is to live on your own. But there's no mom to do your laundry, and make you dinner and to do things for you, and you don't think about little things like buying paper towels and salt.

There also is a lot of option-related buying because everything is in the money now.

The reality of the marketplace is that markets are made of buyers and sellers. Stocks go up and stocks go down,

There are many people buying homes as investments rather than just places to live. They're using them as an investment because they see the potential growth and value.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nigerian politics has been, since the military dictatorships, largely non-ideological. Rather than a battle of ideas, it is about who can pump in the most money and buy the most access.

Dave Ramsey

Most of the things we buy are wants. And we call them needs, but they're wants.

Franz Beckenbauer

If a Middle Eastern sheikh comes to buy Bayern Munich, he could buy 49 per cent. Fifty-one per cent must stay in Germany with the club. That law came about because of the developments of international football.

Chief Seattle

If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?

Hilary Mantel

Sometimes you buy a book, powerfully drawn to it, but then it just sits on the shelf. Maybe you flick through it, the ghost of your original purpose at your elbow, but it's not so much rereading as re-dusting. Then one day you pick it up, take notice of the contents; your inner life realigns.

Howie Mandel

You can't be the dad who takes your kid out after your wife has said, 'No ice cream,' buys the ice cream, and says, 'Don't tell your mother.' You teach the child to lie - and to disrespect the other parent.

Joseph P. Kennedy

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Derek Jeter

You hear about women buying shoes? I buy DVDs. I definitely have a problem.

Robert Kiyosaki

Many gold and silver experts will recommend you buy numismatic coins - rare and old coins. If you are not a rare coin expert, I'd encourage you to stay away from them. New investors often pay too much for rare coins that are not really rare.

Bryan Burrough

I don't know the figures, but Hollywood must buy 100 rights for every movie that actually gets made.

Carl Honore

There is so much to be gained from investing more time in what we eat. Buying fresh ingredients means knowing where your food comes from and what's in it.

Anushka Sharma

I don't want my guy to buy me cars, villas or diamonds. I can do all that. I don't want any PDA, either. But my guy should be very sensitive to my pains and sorrows and should try to make me happy because I'd do all that for him. Sadly, most of the men that I have met in the past couple of years are too self-obsessed.

We have to buy it right so we can sell it right.

We have to buy it. If we don't, in another year, we'll be out of here.

We have seen home prices in places like Florida and California. Because of that, we thought it was going to take years before we could buy one.

The party is now over for consumers and officially on for Big Oil. You can kiss your cheap gas goodbye. This is probably the cheapest gas you're going to buy for 2006. ... They (prices) are poised to scream upward.

The panic buying tends to be a blip. Once you've filled your tank you can't fill it up again.

David Robertson

This recognizes that MasterCard is a distant second to Visa. To get back in the game, MasterCard is going to have to buy some share.

Seth Godin

to click on a link or buy online.

To buy stocks just because it's the end of the year is not a good reason to do it when the fundamentals indicate otherwise. The yield curve is flattening in response to the slowing housing market. The implications can't be ignored. That's why we're trading the way we are.

To buy someone like the Weather Channel, a company is going to have to pay a high price,

Lynn Coady

To buy dinner transmits that you feel time spent in your date's company has been a pleasure and a privilege.

There are a number of parties interested in buying the unit.

There are an enormous number of tests and pieces that have to be completed before a school system can actually buy land for a school.