Famous Quotes & Sayings

If you've got a customer in a car dealership, you don't want them to walk out without buying something.

Mike Birbiglia

If you tried to sell Mike Birbiglia as a concept, no one would buy it.

B. F. Skinner

In the U.S., the markets that are most risky are those where there is a higher proportion of buyers using adjustable loans and interest-only loans.

In the U.S., only about 60 percent of consumers have Microsoft Office on their computers. That's a lot of opportunity for sales there. They have a pricing advantage. It offers comparable, or better functionality for less. For the consumer and small businesses, value and price will be major factors influencing buying decisions.

Peter Frampton

I didn't used to want people taping the shows but if you do, more people buy the official record.

Paul Campbell

Before we had this, our buyers were at the mercy of the vendors.

Because the market was so hot, investors were buying everything. It was like a frenzy with prices going up so fast.

Hines was working through plans for the property. When Hines got out, I thought it made sense to buy the land.

Andy Roddick

Hey - you guys with the ladder. If you come here I'll buy you pizza.

Will Smith

Hey it's Dan Marino! If I were Dan Marino I'd definitely buy this car. Well, not this car. I'm going to (mess) this car up. But something like it.

He's the ultimate team guy. There was one guy who wasn't buying into what we were doing and we felt like we needed some more help in the front line.

Housing has peaked and we're expecting some moderate weakening in 2006. It's starting to turn into a buyers' market, with fewer buyers chasing more homes at these mortgage rates.

Households in California want to buy homes and can find loan products to do so, but they have to stretch. Large numbers of households are dedicating 40 percent and in some case 50 percent of their income to housing costs ... The norm nationally is 30 percent.

Household goods have fallen 5 percent in the last two months -- we are moving house but not buying the kit to go in it.

Hotel buyers have to be much smarter now than they did a year or two ago.

Housing is still in the portfolio with NVR, ... When we started to buy NVR, the price-to-sales ratio was 0.59. Now it sells at 0.83. And I continue to think housing is going to do well into the future here.

He's on my suit game, ... He thinks they're terrible. There's nothing wrong with my suits. He said he was going to buy me some suits. I said, 'Shaq said they're all right.'

Damien Hirst

I don't really buy any, but I have a lot of friends who do, so I go out sober and say I'm not gonna take any drugs and then I end up drunk and do it. And then wake up the next day and say I'm never doing that again.

I'm saving probably to buy a laptop. Are you going to open an account?

If nobody's buying PCs then nobody is buying chips and nobody is buying equipment, ... Having a healthier demand environment gives chip makers more confidence to migrate to leading edge equipment.

Michael Griffin

If next week the guys have a eureka moment on the foam and spot why this big chunk came off and they say, 'OK now we understand it, we truly understand,' and tell us why and we buy it, and the next tank doesn't have this problem, then we'll go forward.

If Japanese investors buy U.S. Treasuries, then they have to buy the dollar as well. The market expects flows out of Japan during this week and the whole month, and that may support the dollar.

If Microsoft's security products are easier to use, we think consumers will be very happy to buy from Microsoft.

If one of those needs is for a primary vehicle to get to work, and insurance won't replace that car, and it's disaster related, it's perfectly reasonable for people to use that money to buy a car." ()

If I were moving to Florida and planning to live in this area, I would buy it.

If my youngest sees her favorite TV character on the box, she will push me to buy it, even if she has never had the product before. Whenever I shop with my kids, I end up compromising and finding some 'best of the worst' junk food to keep them happy.

If I were the homeowner in trouble, I'd make the person who wants to buy my home put everything in writing first. And I wouldn't commit to anything in writing until I had a cashier's check in my hand.

Margarita Levieva

I grew up in communist Russia where we didn't have anything, so I'm not worried that I can't buy an extra pair of shoes.

Eric Ross

In 2000 flash was a huge contributor to AMD's earnings, ... In 2003 it was a contributor as well, but if pricing continues, it will be a drag for the company, and there are no natural buyers of the AMD flash business.

I never heard of Microsoft pressuring us or any other company to not buy other vendors' software -- and we buy software from all different vendors, Microsoft included,

I'm very grateful for the program. Without the help, we couldn't buy this.

I'm tired of watching. I've watched enough. If that's the case, I might as well buy season tickets to this team. I feel like I've been watching that long anyway.

John Franklin

Individuals have become much more inclined to do their own shopping, whether it is buying things online or philanthropy, ... We found ourselves being a middleman at a time no one wanted middlemen.