Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hugh Johnson

If you're not a day trader, I would say don't do a thing. If you're buying for the long term, you'll be just fine.

If you're more than five or 10 years away from retirement, this is a buying opportunity.

If you're buying from e-Bay, be very, very careful. More often than not, that merchandise is a forgery.

If you're buying from a reputable rental company or corporation, then you have no need to worry. There's lots of documentation.

If you're buying for investment, it's more important to try and time the fluctuations of the market cycle. If you're buying to live there, you should buy because of the cycle of your life.

If you're buying for 20 years, you want to go for growth,

If you're buying a complete vacation for $2,000 or $3,000 dollars, it's an investment you want to protect.

James O'Shaughnessy

If you're indexing to the S&P 500, you're buying the most expensive names in the market.

If you're a current shareholder, you will not be affected. You can continue (to buy shares) just as you always have.

Tim Bajarin

If you're a consumer and you decided to wait out the Christmas season, you're going to get some great buys from a price standpoint very shortly.

If you're going to buy a used car, first buy from a reputable dealer. Second, get that car checked out by a licensed mechanic.

If you're going to buy an Xbox 360 bundle, you're going to spend $500, and that equals 10 video games.

If you're doing retirement planning you realize it's a long-term venture. If you have some extra money, now is the time to buy something for 20 years form now.

If you are trying to buy a home, you have to be careful about what you are doing.

If you look at the domestic market, people who buy the domestic vehicles tend to be older in general.

If you look at surveys about buying priorities right now, fuel economy ranks sixteenth. For Honda buyers, its fourteenth. Only 2 percent of Honda buyers even think of fuel economy at all. It's not even on the radar. A fuel hike might get it on radar, but it probably won't make it item one, two, three of four. They see the larger vehicles meeting other needs and even with $2.50 a gallon gas, they're not going to necessarily give it up.

If you could give yourself one new present in the new year, I would say buy a new set of dishes and make the salad plates your main plates. Dinner plates are so large we just fill them up. We simply eat too much of everything.

If you have two loaves of bread, sell one and buy a lily

If you've got the choice between taking the kids out, getting a babysitter, and paying $50 for a movie or paying $3 for a rental or maybe $20 to buy the movie on DVD, why would you rush out to a theater?

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.

Jeff Flake

In the end, I think this looks like nothing more than an extremely expensive way to buy votes.

Michael Porter

In the future, ... buying a single country fund will be akin to buying an Iowa fund or a Massachusetts fund.

In the current market, high techs are not exactly the target of investors' buying interest. Under these circumstances, it wouldn't help at all to post disappointing earnings.

In the initial phase the consumer will probably lose. It is a big risk for people who actually buy products for either format without knowing who the winner is.

Chris Larson

Instead of people buying and selling products and services, people are really buying and bidding on loans from other people.

Instead of bidding on offices and retail properties in Los Angeles, the leveraged buyers will consider Phoenix or Dallas, where the cap rates are higher.

Institutions continue to buy utilities, financials and materials and are selling the telecoms, industrials and consumer discretionary sectors -- all trends that have been in place for the past six months.

Institutional investors are continuing to buy into China's growth story and this explains their interest in H shares and red chips.

Intel is coming off a time when nobody got fired for buying Intel. Their hardware sold at a premium. We've been watching prices drop like falling rain over the past two years. But the company has a cost structure like the good old days.

Intel has a problem: trying to convince people to buy something other than Celeron.