Famous Quotes & Sayings

He took a lot of sales away from him. Dorsey Burnette was white, so therefore they started buying Dorsey Burnette instead of Slim Harpo.

He said, 'So I heard Disney is going to buy your script,' ... How can they read it that fast?

Generally, when senior management buys stock in a company, it is an indication of confidence.

Generally speaking, consumers like the opportunity of being put face to face with newness. They know they don't have to buy now.

Malcolm Smith

Gas prices are way too high. What I make cutting grass, I turn right around and spend on gas. (Gas) shouldn't be this high. Other than quit buying gas, I don't really know how we can solve the problem.

For my family, we don't have a lot of money, so I have to earn my own keep. If I want something, I have to buy it.

Good news from the U.S. is pushing shares at home higher. What's driving foreign investors is the view deflation may soon end and foreign buying will probably continue.

Between car payments, getting married, buying property, having children, dealing with deaths, most people walk a very tight rope with debt. They make the huge mistake of only making minimum payments. Once something goes wrong in their lives and they need money fast ? they are at a major loss.

Even though it's starting to slow down, it's still at a point where a lot folks are having a difficult time buying a house.

Big banks...don't know how to underwrite these loans. New immigrants come here with nothing, for two to three years they work very hard and then they buy first home in America. It's not easy for a traditional mortgage lender to understand how they save.

Everything's slowed way down. It confirms what we've been talking about. Buyers are sitting on the fence because they don't know where the market is headed.

Everything slows. People are not going to buy as many things because it's all going into the gas tank, and (employers) are not going to be hiring as much because it's going into the gas tank.

Everything here is natural. We don't have any plastic toys or fake dolls. Our students knit their own dolls, and we're growing grass in our Easter baskets, instead of buying the plastic grass.

Thomas Davis

Everybody in my family wants to come to that game. It ain't happening. I can't do it. If I got everybody tickets that have called me these last two weeks I'd be buying 75 tickets. I can't do it.

Everybody wishes Mattel would buy Hasbro, but that probably won't happen,

Everyone was congratulating me, patting me on the back. I had several people say I should buy a lottery ticket or go to Vegas.

Anna Sui

Every season I buy a double-breasted jacket but it could be fitted, very boxy. It could be oversized. It could be forties-shaped. So I think it's my job to make it desirable and new for the customer and the customer always has to fill in that slot in their wardrobe.

Every single company that wants to survive will have to have a presence in the United States, in Europe and in Asia. It's a musical chairs game. If you don't buy a company right now, you may be left without a partner down the road.

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

Every house in these communities will have a minimum of established connectivity. So it's a given that the buyer looking at these houses will spend an extra $1,500 to live there. At very high rates, 80 to 85 percent of the buyers are spending up to $3,500. The evidence would suggest at that price point ($250,000 to $350,000), people are willing to spend $2,500 to $3,500 for a fairly robust set of (connectivity) features.

As the market starts to think about the possibility of raising rates, it should support the yen. We could see further buying of the yen.

John W. Gardner

As the market has risen, a lot of people are probably over-invested in stocks. You can sell some stocks and buy bonds, mutual funds or CDs that are less risky.

As the market has largely anticipated an end to the current monetary policy soon, buying of the yen will not last.

The most the kids seem to get is five packs for $50. They pool their money and one kid with the guts to go to Detroit buys for them all.

The most likely buyer is someone who wants to have a luxury place in the Napa Valley and a prestigious wine label to go with it.

Actually, the motorcycle industry grew after 9/11, ... People just took their money out of the stock market to buy toys.

Across-the-board buying is over and investors have to select stocks with good earnings prospects.

Storm worries got things going. That kind of put the buyers on hold.

Some short-term traders seemed to buy government debt paper, capitalizing on losses in equity prices.

Some people don't want to buy new equipment right away, because it often shows up after someone else realizes that they just grabbed the wrong stuff. But if you think you are going to buy new equipment, you should come in within a few weeks of the theft.

Jay Johnson

Some people don't know where to go to contribute to the fund. Buying a shirt when they come in for dinner makes it easy.

Tony Wilson

Some people who have been coming for years may be upset that it's not going to be there. But some would like newer facilities, and some would like to buy a condo there.

Southern Union is buying lines in a region that may have higher production in coming decades. The newest gas-shale play that has the industry most excited is Barnett Woodford in West Texas, just west of the Permian.