Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Campbell

When she retired, the new buyers had to start from scratch.

Firms that you can hold on to without worrying are seeing some buying ... Sony, Toyota and Canon are worry-free, and a lot of investment trusts are designed to include those kind of stocks.

Fiji is a hot, hot market, but you can't expect to come here to get rich quick. Most of the people interested in First Landing see buying a home in Fiji as an investment and a lifestyle move. But maybe a third see it as money.

Alan Arkin

Filmmakers, they tell me they want to make movies. I say, 'Good, go out, buy a $500 camera, get some friends and make a movie. Don't go to Hollywood. Stay wherever you are.'

External factors are supportive and those who didn't buy yesterday are expected to enter the market today.

Exporters are likely to buy the Taiwan dollar before the year ends.

Falling stocks can prompt some buying of bonds.

But more generally, we're seeing a follow through on a lot of the value buying that lifted us in the summer and it's creating some psychological support.

But I wouldn't be in a rush to buy these stocks right now. Maybe buy a little bit. Keep your powder dry, and wait a couple of months, see what happens. I'm very worried about May. What is going to happen in the summer doldrums? Perhaps the market will correct again. You've got to be very careful here. So remember, buy stocks with earnings -- that's my opinion.

Amy Sedaris

Whenever I do your show, sometimes I get a little check in the mail and then I take that check and buy a new pair of shoes, and then I wear those shoes the next time I do your show.

Amy Chua

There's a lot of rudeness and sullen behavior and kids that are very entitled and spoiled, just buy me more stuff. I didn't want to raise kids like that.

Alice Waters

I think you have to plan ahead. When I go to the market on a Saturday, and I'm buying for family and friends, I'm thinking about what I'm going to eat on the weekend but also about what I'm going to make for the following week.

Alice Waters

You do need some dispensation for local farmers, because the fast food industry will promote the unsanitary conditions of farming. With vegetables, you have to be careful where they come from; you have to know the farmers and trust them. If you buy from the farmers' market, it's already been investigated.

Alice Waters

When I first went to Paris in 1965, I fell in love with the small, family-owned restaurants that existed everywhere then, as well as the markets and the French obsession with buying fresh food, often twice a day.

Alice Waters

I think if you buy from people who are taking care of the land, you're supporting the future of this country.

Alex Berenson

Institutions like mutual funds often worry that if they disclose their plans to buy a stock, copycats will move quickly and drive up the stock before the purchase is completed.

Alex Berenson

The lower spreads mean lower costs for investors, because Nasdaq investors generally do not trade directly with one another. Instead, they usually buy and sell from market-makers, brokerage firms that flip shares between buyers and sellers and keep the spread for themselves.

Alex Berenson

Bigger spreads mean bigger gaps between what buyers pay and sellers receive. For example, a spread of 10 cents a share means that the buyer pays $100 more for 1,000 shares than the seller receives.

Pedro Pascal

I just went to your typical public schools, and my dad would take us to the movies every week, or he'd buy scalped tickets to San Antonio Spurs games. I remember I was four or five years old and my parents, who were very young, took us to see The Police in Austin, and Iggy Pop opened.

Peter Beard

I'm for conservation, but it's mostly a con. That's the trouble. It's sentimental. Buy an elephant a drink, a lion an acre.

Peter Mayle

I don't have a boss. Well, I have a boss: the public. If the public doesn't buy my books, I would be out of a job.

Mayer Hawthorne

I've always loved records, even when I was a kid, my parents would buy me records instead of a lot of the other toys kids got. That's what I wanted. I've been collecting records and DJing my whole life, and I thank my parents for that. They had a big record collection and really imparted the magic of it on me.

Charles Spurgeon

Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and day. They have not yet discovered the pearl of great price, or they would have sold their all to buy the field wherein it lies.

The government would rather buy time and not put itself in a position to move forward on a criminal case but tie up the funds and continue to sift through the evidence.

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.

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.