Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're seeing better earnings, and that's making people more enthusiastic. But programs have been skewed to the buy side. To be honest, this is probably not sustainable.

We're seeing a lot of play between the telecom companies. People are shorting some and buying others.

We?re seeing a fundamental shift in consumer buying behavior. We expect this trend to continue as 2006 will give the mass market dual-core processors and 64-bit capabilities.

We're looking for people who know their city upside down. We want to know what clubs they go to, where they buy things -- they need to show us that they're knowledgeable.

We're looking for people to buy cattle that will fit into our program and people to feed cattle that will fit our program.

We've got low volume and not a whole lot of new buying interest. You're just not there yet from a technical standpoint. It's going to be choppy for the next few days.

We've got deteriorating economic fundamentals still. We're probably in a mild recession, but the question is will the consumer keep buying and will the investor keep buying stocks.

Charlie Munger

Wrigley is a great business, but that doesn't solve the problem. Buying great businesses at advantageous prices is very tough.

Charlie Munger

Kellogg's and Campbell's moats have also shrunk due to the increased buying power of supermarkets and companies like Wal-Mart. The muscle power of Wal-Mart and Costco has increased dramatically.

Bill Watterson

Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules, and rewards.

Eli Broad

Collecting is more than just buying objects.

You can't go to the store and buy 'the Engagement Platform.'

Ludwig von Mises

To assign to everybody his proper place in society is the task of the consumers. Their buying and abstention from buying is instrumental in determining each individual's social position.

When I make a soup, instead of having to go to the store and buy the produce, it's already dried so I just reach my hand in the jar and throw it in. So it takes me five minutes to prepare a soup which is really healthy and is more or less a gourmet meal.

When I buy my soft drink Ill feel really good about that.

Michael Saunders

When the market was so hot, people would buy anything just to have their dream, their place in the sun.

But only 'rich' people by definition have the 'extra' money to buy things and invest to create economic growth. Do we really want to tax that 'extra' money away - and give it to the government to spend? Does that make any economic sense outside of politics and our emotional desire to make everyone suffer equally through these tough times?

Twiggy

My elder sister used to get the fashion magazines, and I would go through them and find things I liked and buy fabric and copy them. But I hated what I looked like. I mean, I was sooo skinny.

Timothy Noah

We all need to save money to send our kids to college, to buy our first house, and to retire. But the truth is that most of us don't save very much.

We might as well buy the whole package.

We met with neighbors and told them we had no plan to buy their properties.

We won't buy anything unless it's land owned.

There is no pressing need (for super funds) to go out and buy some hedge funds.

There is no on-demand if there is no demand, ... If you don't have a hit, nobody is going to buy it. Nobody is going to spend $1.99 to watch something that they don't know about or don't care about.

There is no more obvious way to play interest rate differentials than buying dollar/yen.

Edan Lepucki

I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.

Neil Gershenfeld

You don't need personal fabrication in the home to buy what you can buy because you can buy it. You need it for what makes you unique, just like personalization.

Success will be when I can have a real swimming pool instead of the fifty-dollar one I buy at Kmart every year. But I don't want to get robbed of any authenticity to try and make money.

Nicholas Haslam

You can learn the subtle language of interior style, but many people simply buy it. If you put yourself in the hands of someone who knows what they are doing, you can be confident it will look good.

I hope to buy brands and businesses globally.

Whether we're back, it's way too early to tell. It's halfway through the season. I don't buy that yet.

Steve Jobs

Whether people will buy a device just to watch video - it's not clear, ... So far the answer's been no, because there are several devices out which play video and none of them has been successful yet. So, um - so far, nobody's figured out the right formula.

Sam Altman

Whether or not money can buy happiness, it can buy freedom, and that's a big deal. Also, lack of money is very stressful.