Famous Quotes & Sayings

When you get a market where there's a lot of indiscriminate selling, you can buy some pretty good companies with yields of 3 percent or more trading at reasonable valuations. That's a good situation.

Pranab Mukherjee

There are actually three French companies, one of them in the public sector, from which we are buying the submarines and not two.

Gary Bauer

There are a couple people in the party who think you can become president by essentially buying the presidency. You've got one candidate who has raised a lot of money and the other candidate who has inherited a lot of money,

There are less buyers today, less sellers and therefore less reasons to pay big money for expensive showrooms and trade shows, ... That's why the building's occupancy has been at about 60 percent over the past few years versus a 100 percent earlier.

Marissa Mayer

There are items that you don't want to buy far away and have shipped to you.

Brian Cook

We love Kobe when he's out there, but we all can play. We don't buy into that stuff about how we don't help Kobe out. We're all competitors and we're all professionals. That's why we're here.

When you look at medium vs. large SUVs, I think there is already a lot of back-and-forth shopping and buying between those segments, and that will continue.

When you have an email server like Microsoft Exchange, which is the most common for small businesses, you end up buying more hardware than you need in order to process the spam you've let in.

This rumor has stimulated call buying by speculators yesterday and today, hoping that the price of the stock will jump.

The reason you buy insurance is to protect yourself financially. If you get really sick, it doesn't do you much good if you have a $3,000 deductible and now don't have $3,000.

The reason why an inverted yield curve need not foreshadow recession this time is that it is foreign investors and not domestic investors who are increasingly buyers of U.S. bonds.

There has not been much interest in buying the group as a whole. Price is probably the big issue.

There has been a lot of s elling that has taken place and you see so many analysts that are throwing in the towel. I think when investors wake up three or so years from today, they are going to look back on this time as a buying opportunity.

There has been a big move to sell car accessories as if they were fashion items. It's a status symbol in the same way jewelry is - people can buy in at every level.

When buying momentum starts to fall off the market starts to correct and I think we'll have a mild correction today.

Patrick Ness

Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.

We saw a lot of buying coming in this morning but it was more of a short covering rally than new money coming in. But there are nervous things going on ? the election, the Fed, and these are all issues that are weighing on the market right now,

We just happen to have everything going right now. We're playing with enthusiasm. These kids are buying into what we coach.

Steve Jobs

We think this is a real breakthrough. It's never before been done, where you can buy hit prime-time TV shows the day after they're broadcast.

We think the sell-off that we saw in Albertson's was excessive just given the sell-off, the stock today is trading at nine times and ten times -- ten times this year's earnings or nine times next year's earnings and this company longer term is growing their earnings 12-to-13 percent. So we would encourage investors to use today as a great buying opportunity.

Henry Blodget

We think the Internet is tremendously profound. It will continue to have an effect on the global economy over the next five-to-10 years. But there's no way that it is a large enough opportunity to support the 400 companies that have gone public. And I think if you look back in history at different emerging industries, we've often had this feeling that the PCs for example are going to change the world. All you have to do is buy a PC company and you're safe. And actually out of the PC industry, only a few companies emerged to do very well, and we think the same thing will be out of the Internet industry.

Daniel Boone

Why not return some cash to shareholders instead of having to always buy back shares?

Why not just walk over to Vanguard and buy the S&P 500 index fund?

Why don't you ... downgrade the quality of the carpet or whatever, raise the price 5% ... and know that the person will probably just buy up the nicer carpet anyway?

Why can't you buy the right educational experience for kids, buy that magic package that gets them into Yale? It might work in deciding what car to buy, but it doesn't work into how to raise kids. It's a long slog.

Why buy a cow when milk is so cheap?

Jenna Morasca

Why are cancer patients so hard to buy for? This question always puzzles me. When people are healthy, things are so simple, including gift buying. A jaunt to the local mall or a day in front of the TV watching QVC can be just enough for all the loved ones on your list.

Kenneth Fisher

To me 'The Big Easy' is shorthand for owning big stocks that are easy for wary investors to buy into. These stocks tend to outperform during the back half of bull markets.

We were told to take anything of a personal nature so I don't think we will be back in, unless somebody buys it and rehires. We were slow, but everybody is slow at this time of the year.

You have to continue to buy the stocks that are leading the market, and for the foreseeable future, that means technology.

You have to buy the right kind of property insurance for the type of danger you're likely to face.

You have to be very, very specific. You can't just buy a handful of tech stocks and think they'll do well. There will definitely be winners and losers.

Will Smith

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.