Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sending people a check is a totally deceptive way to sell a product. If you want to sell a product, send a nice brochure explaining why it's a good deal. You shouldn't have to trick people into buying it.

Sentiment is very good. We're seeing a last run as investors buy up shares that have done well during the year.

Sensenbrenner has been tough and stuck to his guns on past occasions. Maybe buying time will help.

Selling Old Japan (stocks) to buy New Japan (stocks) is necessary for the economy to put forward ongoing structural reforms, and the change in the Nikkei will encourage this.

So far, the perceived gas price increases have not had any discernible impact on new-vehicle buying patterns, as least with regard to the size of the engine.

So if I was buying into tobacco, I would acknowledge the sector is high risk. It is high risk and there's a lot of uncertainty but Philip Morris is the only one I'd be buying.

Cleo Moore

So I end up using about ten tubes of lipstick a day. I've even had to buy a darker kind than I prefer to wear in order to make a better print.

So many people throw out old shoes. After I sent out the emails, the whole thing snowballed. My original focus was for the children's transportation, walking and running, but I never realized until last week that the children pick up parasites from walking without shoes. There is also no place to buy shoes there.

So many people that wait until the last minute buy all these things with money they don't have.

She used to be a race horse but she'd been abused. I had no intention of buying a horse that old, but when we saw her, we just fell in love with her.

She's used the money they gave her to buy crack cocaine. When she is under the influence, she is not reliable and is easily swayed.

Shes a very nice filly; very correct and well balanced. I love her sire, and she just looks the part of a racehorse. I buy horses who I think can win Grade 1 races.

Brad Bird

You're buying for the benefit of the cottage experience at a fraction of the price.

Benjamin Franklin

Many have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths.

We are getting a lot of rotational buying on blue-chip stocks right now. People are buying stocks when they are hurt or lagging.

What's really worrisome is what Mr. Spitzer is going to do next, ... I don't know what wrongdoing AIG might have done. I would be very inclined to buy more of AIG but I don't know what Spitzer has up his sleeve.

We're going to have to buy machines for 335 precincts. But before we do, our goal was to get as many people (with disabilities) here as possible.

We're going to have another disaster that will require multiple people to be displaced, ... This calls into question if we have an effective contracting process if you're rushing out to buy 100,000 trailers.

Unless money is no object, I'd rather buy five $1,000 mattresses and change them every few years than buy one $5,000 mattress.

Usually, if we're going to use something long term, we buy it with Software Assurance, ... So the fact that they're doing a new product release isn't a significant concern to me.

We're doing everything we can to keep our costs as low as we can, but the largest percentage of our cost is the cost of purchasing the power that we deliver to our customers. We could fire everyone and not do anything, but we still can't control the cost of energy that we have to buy to provide our customers.

Yen buying seems to be stalling after an initial round of optimism about the Sept. 11 election receded.

Years ago, Fidelity told you not to buy because of a manager, but because Fidelity as a whole always turned to gold. Now you have to look at a manager's performance.

Carine Roitfeld

Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.

With the inherent value in Cabot's capital program, we recommenced buying shares in late November and early December with the market pull back. We still see a lot of merit and long-term value for the shareholders in looking at COG stock as an investment alternative.

With much stronger competition worldwide, especially from China, garment buyers are now demanding more and better services from producers.

Kevin McCarthy

We're going to do tax reform to let people keep more of what they earn, grow an economy, and be able to save for your children's future and buy a new house.

We're going to continue to do what's right for the growth of the business. Our pricing strategy is not to maximize margin percentage growth but to maximize buying for our customers, ... As we grow, we'll be able to get better economies of scale, better prices from our suppliers and our third-party sellers. All that should help margins.

We're expecting very strong first-quarter growth, which means the Fed can keep hiking rates in the first half of the year. This is not a good time to be buying Treasuries.

We're finding consumers all over the world are being discouraged by the rising cost of games, confused by the availability of titles, the lack of information and the often complicated process of paying for and downloading games on mobile. This is slowing the growth of the industry as a whole and in many cases putting people off buying mobile games altogether.

We reiterate our buy rating with a $55 price target.

John Thompson

We're getting contributions from 10 guys on a regular basis. Scoring is great, but you have to get some rebounds and have guys buying into defensive schemes. So many times guys who score get the press, but the reality is that the last several games have been total team efforts. It's been a lot of fun to watch.

We're forecasting revenue contributions of $600 million from about 7 million upgrade (Windows 98) units where a consumer goes to (a store) and buys it.