Famous Quotes & Sayings

I got more money in that stuff than I had in my first race car, a '56 Ford. John Page gave me a senior citizen's discount because he said you don't see many old timers buying this kind of gear anymore.

Josh Homme

I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife. You know what I mean?

If they didn't buy an animal, they gave the child add-on money. When other companies heard that, they followed suit, also pledging to give something to each child. That hasn't happened before.

If they determined that Springfield is where they want to make their home then right now, actually even before now was the time to buy with the interest rates where as low as the economy is changing and the interest rate is going back up.

If they're interested in buying something, look it over.

Edward Felten

If they are buying into this technology, they have a right to know if it actually works,

If they already have a computer system running Windows 95, there's not a lot of reason for them to go out and buy Windows 98. In fact, we expect the majority of Windows 98 upgrade sales to go to PC enthusiasts.

If they feel like they have to go through the whole political process in the United States to buy a company, they're going to say, the heck with it.

If they (the prospect) are not buying for many months, they still want to hear from you.

If they sold their house today, they would still get more money than they paid for it. But they won't be able to buy as many goods and services as they could before.

If we could string a couple of winning days together it would certainly give people a little more confidence out here and a little more conviction to buy these things.

I have heard that some of the sell programs have been buying Russell 2000 futures.

Gary Hamel

In a democracy, you don't need anyone's permission to form a new political party, publish a politically charged article, or organize a 'tea party.' And in open markets, individuals are free to buy and invest as they see fit.

Gail Simmons

If you don't use good ingredients, the outcome is never going to be excellent. But if you buy the freshest ingredients that are in season, at their peak, and you cook with them, you can't really go wrong.

Bruce Richardson

We're still waiting to see the growth story from buying all these applications, and so far we haven't seen it.

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.

Debi Mazar

My husband wrote me love letters while I was on location in Canada and pregnant. They turned into being about food, and it turned it into a cookbook. He called it 'The Tuscan Cookbook for the Pregnant Male.' It was kind of genius. When I took it a book agent, he was like, 'Men don't buy cookbooks.'

Debi Mazar

In Italy, everybody buys silver for every special occasion. Baptisms, weddings, you get silver.