Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

To say that there a narrowing of the field or potential buyer is premature.

We had a buy on the rumor, sell on the news sort of thing.

We had a booster club meeting earlier this week, ... and a lady came up and wanted to buy three more to send to family members.

We are seeing U.S. investors consistently selling the Canadian dollar to buy the U.S. dollar as there is still uncertainty in the election.

This will put it into a tightly regulated tax and control market for people who want to buy it. It's taking it out of the schoolyards and putting it underneath the watchful eye of state government.

Try to buy those kinds of names when they're out of favor and hold on to them for long periods of time,

Judy Greer

The truth is, if I was maybe better or funnier or prettier, wouldn't I have starred in a movie? I can see it objectively as a businesswoman - if no one's buying your product, then there's not a desire for it.

Ha-Joon Chang

When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged.

Ivan Glasenberg

When the opportunities come, we may not want to buy another nickel asset, but if something comes cheap enough, we're all about return on equity.

Ivan Glasenberg

We're talking to every third-party supplier every day of the week, and our traders are talking to them and buying products from them. When we're doing that, we see opportunities which no one else sees.

Dennis Ritchie

We really didn't buy it thinking we'd have this enormous investment,

Tom Browning

We do have four or five people waiting on the sideline who want to buy it,

Greg James

We don't buy luxury or extra items but we buy necessities.

We don't buy anything with chemicals in here at all because the taste is different, ... No chemicals at all. Not even salt.

Rodney Crowell

We did a show in New York the other day, and after we played The Obscenity Prayer , a woman came up to me and said, 'I'm buying your record as soon as it comes out, because the Dixie Chicks can kiss my (expletive), too!'

When I was buying last season I was looking for the perfect dress and these have been a winner.

When I was younger I thought you had to buy and sell a lot to make money,

When pepper is ground, it oxidizes and loses its oils. It has no pungency. If you buy ground pepper always look for the sell-by date.