Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marques Houston

I started collecting baseball cards and basketball cards when I was younger. I have a CD collection that turned into a DVD collection, and I have a Jordan shoe collection. And I don't drink, but I have a wine collection. I just started a sweatshirt collection. Every city that I'm in, I buy a sweatshirt. It's just something that I do.

Steven Sater

I started buying records in the '80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk.

I see this as buying by speculative dealers, or short-term punters. It's fallen to levels low enough for dealers to toy around with. But we're keeping away from this one.

I've been saving money to buy one for school next year, but I guess I'll save $1,000.

Nastassja Kinski

I've been taking lessons for a year or so and every time I hear a piano playing, it goes through and through me, so I'm going to buy a little piano.

William Bass

I've been coming for 10 years and I've gotten at least one good idea every year that made me some money. Last year they convinced me I should buy energy stocks and I had a wonderful year.

I've been calling the buyers to come up for a preview.

Timothy Simons

I used to love going to shows and finding new bands, but the Internet takes the fun out of it. Like a band? You can buy and download every single song they have ever done within five minutes.

It would not shock me to see more fund buying as speculative traders try to cover their positions.

The zinc market is going to become as tight as copper. Every speculator is buying zinc now.

Brendan Shanahan

The worst thing is going home feeling so-so about a tie. Those highs and lows are what get you excited about the game and get you buying a newspaper the next day.

The worst reason to buy something is because you see it in the news. Don?t buy it because it?s hot, buy it because you think it?s a good investment for your portfolio. An individual investor should not be trying to speculate on the price of gold.

They are aggressively buying their way into an internet strategy from nowhere.

We weren't getting back on defense, we weren't moving on defense. And for the most part, we couldn't buy a shot.

Joyce Johnson

We were prepared to buy her clothes and make sure she had all her supplies for school, but her guardians said they didn't need anything, ... She seems to be quite happy.

Milton Friedman

When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself,he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends it.When a man spends his own money to buy something for someone else,he is still very careful about how much he spends, but somewhatless what he spends it on. When a man spends someone else's moneyto buy something for himself, he is very careful about what hebuys, but doesn't care at all how much he spends. And when a manspends someone else's money on someone else, he doesn't care howmuch he spends or what he spends it on. And that's governmentfor you.

When a guy comes in and buys a $2 million property, he probably comes in with a pretty big ego and he wants to put something on that property that reflects his own personality.

We will seek to buy the land but only from willing owners. We're not going to condemn any property.

We went down there and we couldn't buy a bucket, and they couldn't miss a bucket.

We had the tickets available, and it was a way to increase revenues for the game. It was also an opportunity ... to give people who would not ordinarily have a chance to buy a ticket that opportunity.

Gordon Bethune

The probabilities (of) United, the dominant carrier in the West, buying and merging with the third-biggest carrier in the West (America West) are closer to zero than they are to any other number,

The prize money is a bonus. You split it between eight riders and mechanics and then you have enough to buy dinner.

Richard Davis

We show them how they can invest the money in real estate and earn 12 to 15 percent, through us. We typically buy a house that is 50 to 60 percent undervalued, put some money into it and sell it for 100 percent of its real value.

We understand that grocery shopping is a local experience. People buy their groceries in the same communities where they live and work. So when it comes to giving, our customers expect us to make a difference locally, and we do.

Kevin Phillips

We typically sell it all. We'll run it through at the price we think it will sell and lower it if nobody buys it.

John Varvatos

When I started working in fashion, I didn't have money to buy photographs, so I'd Xerox pictures from magazines and put them in notebooks. When I'd start a collection, I'd sit with my old notebooks and look through them for inspiration.

When I started at Puma, you had a restaurant that was a Puma restaurant, an Adidas restaurant, a bakery. The town was literally divided. If you were working for the wrong company, you wouldn't be served any food; you couldn't buy anything. So it was kind of an odd experience.

Matt Stone

With luck, timing and knowledge, there is investment potential. But buy cars you like, and buy them because you like them..... I don't know that I'd tell the casual buyer to drop their mutual funds.

With Express Software Manager Professional, we've saved $30,000 to $40,000 just by not having to buy software we didn't need. The investment paid for itself within a year with the reduction of software costs.

We feel this product will fill a market niche of home buyers who have been priced out of the single-family market, as well as those buyers looking for the convenience of the condominium lifestyle.

We don't want them to have to go buy an expensive pageant dress they'd probably never wear again.

We expect this trend to continue during 2006 as house prices rise at a slower pace than earnings, therefore making it a little easier for first-time buyers to enter the market.

We continue to view the stock pullback as a buying opportunity, with Apple's price-to-earnings at 17 times our calendar 2007 operating earnings-per-share estimate.