Famous Quotes & Sayings

Right now we only have enough for a water buffalo. My prediction is that we end up buying two cows.

Right now there are just too many cross currents out there to make people feel confident enough and start buying on this value.

SARS and the chicken flu, all this reacted together causing people to be more conscious about their health so they spend more money buying organic.

Schools could no longer buy up the player pools.

says Binn. ''We tell people where to buy things -- we celebrate each city we're in.

Qwest was this high-flying stock with a huge multiple of cash flow, ... It's now buying two companies that have more moderate growth rates. I expect to see that price come back.

Qwest had few options before and now it has fewer options, ... People aren't lining up to buy Qwest.

Quite frankly, you look at the numbers, and you realize there has to be something more for eBay to buy into. There's significant risk because the cash is not there now.

Putting music in the watch could be fun and would surely have a market, but I think that people who buy luxury watches are not interested in this sort of product.

Pulp magazines were pretty much the principal form of inexpensive literature in the first part of the 20th century. If you wanted to read something and didn't want to spend the money on a hardcover book, you would go to the news stand and buy a pulp fiction magazine.

Purchases by the public pension fund will become a stabilizer for the market. The fund will be a steady buyer of government debt with five-year and longer maturity, helping limit a rise in yields this year.

Really, I expect the light volume to probably last until the Fed stops raising interest rates, and that will kind of depend on the economic outlook that we see, in terms of how much growth we have at the end of this interest-rate cycle. It really tells me that there is a lack of conviction from the buyers and a lack of conviction from the sellers, ... And it's somewhat psychological because people have their stocks, they're down, they don't want to sell them. And that's only been going on for, what, two or three months now? The real question is, after six or seven or eight months and stocks are still down -- will people start selling at that point? And maybe the volume picks up at that point.

Does Continental want to buy United? I don't know. I don't see it.

Don Young

Does buying Earthlink pay for itself over the cost of purchasing hosting services from UUNet? I don't think so,

Laurence Leamer

Does American Media have the right to have that impact in the election? ... The big question with Gigi is: Was the National Enquirer legitimately buying her story intending to run it? Or were they essentially bribing her during the campaign?

J. J. Johnson

Consumers will buy less online when faced with fewer free shipping offers and percentage-off deals,

Consumers voted with their feet. They buy what they want, when it's offered at a fair price and close to home.

Copper prices fell because processors are reluctant to buy now, and demand on the spot market is not as strong as we'd expected.

Corporations want to purchase equipment that is environmentally sensitive, energy efficient and can be properly salvaged and disposed. This program will give companies an easy way to identify green products that ensures they are making environmentally sound and cost effective purchases when buying computer equipment.

Corporate profits are what drive the stock market. On the economic front, we have been seeing a slowdown in some industries like housing. And so that could be a positive but may be, may not be, enough for the Fed. But corporate profits are always what drive a market and why investors buy the stocks of companies.

Consistent with our goal to enable users to find information, connect with anybody, or buy anything, we continued to expand our media, communications, and commerce services during the quarter.

Do they uproot themselves? Do they sell their homes here and buy a home somewhere else?

Robert Stephens

Don't just tell me piracy's illegal, I know that already. Why don't you tell me what software you're using to prevent piracy and I may choose not to buy that CD, because I don't like that anti-piracy software. It's too restrictive.

Tom Cruise

Don't miss out on your Minority Report. Buy it now on DVD and video.

Don't make any big investments. Have lunch with a friend one day a week, but don't buy a Mercedes.

Robert Irwin

Don't underestimate the importance of the entrance to your home. It helps define the quality of your property when people enter. If your entrance exudes richness, buyers will think of your home as a rich property and be prepared to make offers accordingly.

Ray Brown

Don't try to second-guess what a new buyer would want. You'll guess wrong nine times out of 10. It's better to let the price reflect that you have an older kitchen or bathroom.

Don't even look until you've closed on the old house. You could fall in love with a house and feel like you need to buy right away.

Don't do this to your pets. Find a place for them or don't buy them in the first place.

Customers like it. The prime members that are subscribers are buying more, they're doing more cross-shopping.

Customers can try on the shoes before they buy them. The model just makes sense.

Customers are buying it, but it is very, very early. This is a test to gauge customer reaction.

Customers are being just as protective with their gift cards as they were with their own money when buying Christmas gifts. The idea of free money is all in the past. They want value or something very special.