Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Markowitz

The chief problem with the individual investor: He or she typically buys when the market is high and thinks it's going to go up, and sells when the market is low and thinks it's going to go down.

Hank Johnson

Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.

When you slot in that new card, what you're actually buying in terms of components is primarily a laser module and some electronics.

When you send poorer people into the store for groceries, are they more likely to buy the lower-cost food that's pleasing to the child, or the healthier foods that are more expensive?

When you're buying a car it's a very different thing. It's a massive financial commitment. You expect to own it for a long time, and (bankruptcy) is something that's going to have an impact in the consumer's mind.

We are seeing more signs that inflation is well contained and that is good for Treasuries. We are recommending a buy on Treasuries at these levels.

Steve Lyons

We're not thinking we're going to take a lot of people up front who are buying Toyota Camrys and Honda Accords and Nissan Altimas and suddenly tomorrow they're going to go shopping at a Ford store.

We're not sure we can keep the lights on for our customers. We don't have the money to buy the power to deliver to the customers.

We're not seeing a lot of conviction, either by buyers or sellers, so far this week.

We're not saying, 'Don't buy hybrids,' just know what the costs are.

We are taking money so we can buy and ship in bulk,

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?

I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying it.

Pamela Adlon

I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.

Pat Mastelotto

We have a very loyal fan base, the kind tat buys the record the day it comes out, sees every show, and that's fantastic, but what about the people who would never hear about our band?

I never had a massive desire to buy clothes. I liked to customise the clothes I already had or was given when I was younger. If I didn't like them that much, I made them how I wanted them to be.

Pierre Omidyar

What makes eBay successful - the real value and the real power at eBay - is the community. It's the buyers and sellers coming together and forming a marketplace.

Pierre Omidyar

I had the notion that, OK, so now we have all of this wealth, we could buy not only one expensive car, we could buy all of them. As soon as you realize that you could buy all of them, then none of them are particularly interesting or satisfying.

Today, in 2011, if you go and buy a color laser printer from any major laser printer manufacturer and print a page, that page will end up having slight yellow dots printed on every single page in a pattern which makes the page unique to you and to your printer. This is happening to us today. And nobody seems to be making a fuss about it.

Philip Treacy

People, when they buy a hat, they can't explain why they want to buy it or why they want it, but they do. It's like chocolate.

Olly Murs

I was living at home until about 27 and decided it was time to move out and move somewhere else, so that's what I did. I wanted it to be the right thing to do. I didn't want to buy something out of my price range; I didn't want to be stupid with my money, so I decided to stay at home. Luckily, my mum and dad were amazing.

We have a negative outlook on the telecom-services sector, preferring smaller, rural providers and one in Canada that, in our view, have stable margins and are paying out dividends and buying back stock.

We have a lot of work to do to convince Japanese buyers to come back to us.

We couldn't buy a shot in the third. I feel like we outplayed them in the other quarters. I definitely look forward to seeing them down the road in the playoffs.

Clint Hurdle

We couldn't buy a hit when we needed one. We went three games where we got the hit when we needed it and we haven't been able to get one the last three games.

We couldn't buy a bucket. We weren't doing anything strong. We were playing kind of timid. We got what we wanted on defense, but the offense wasn't there.

We couldn't buy a bucket. We got some good looks, but they didn't go.

We could not make an outside shot, and they were daring us to shoot from the outside. You make a zone look really good if you can't buy an outside shot, and there was not a lot inside because they dared us to shoot from the peri- meter. We had some open shots, but they would not fall.

We can't keep them in stock. People are buying them by the handful. They are so cute and cheap.

We can't hit every piece of property right on the nose. It's mass appraisal. If you had the same home with three different buyers and three different sellers, you could conceivably come up with three different prices.

Henry Miller

We can't go into town and buy clothes, so we supply that for our people,

Leonard Peltier

We can see who was granted clemency and why, ... The big donors to the President's campaign were able to buy justice, something we just couldn't afford.

Debt vultures are really the scum at the bottom of the pond. These are guys who buy up the debts of the world's poorest countries on the secondary market. You can go buy debts of a country like Peru, for example, at a real discount. Why? Because people think that the debts won't be repaid.