Famous Quotes & Sayings

I tend not to buy into the conventional wisdom that this has so soured relations between the White House and Capitol Hill that we're not going to see things get done.

Mike Fitzpatrick

I supply some of the top restaurants on the coast, and I enjoy having the opportunity to buy seafood products from myself. It's not like I would never sell fish to them.

I just don't know why people would want to buy new furniture today.

I just don't buy the story that Zucker will walk away, because he'll trash his own holdings. There's some value there and I think someone will get it.

I just fail to see who would be interested in buying Pilkington and I wouldn't be chasing it at this level.

I realized after a while that the dogs you buy in the pet store are pets. And race dogs are race dogs.

By increasing minimum payments, people will pay off credit cards, won't pay so much in interest and will have money left over to buy things.

Circuit City's profits have struggled over the last couple of years and it's uncertain when it can recover, ... There aren't any major bidders for the company yet but any buyer for it will have some real challenges on their hands.

Joanna Lumley

Clothes that are too tight make you look bigger. If you've been trying to shed pounds, and it doesn't go, buy the next size up. I never care what size my clothes are.

I'm looking to buy very-high-quality companies that people have jettisoned from their portfolios because they're overly concerned about the short-term outlook for the economy.

Brian Greene

I'm planning to buy a house in Lake Tahoe and live there, so I can work on my music. Then I'll keep this place for when I'm in town.

I'm just, 'Hi, I'm Shamir. I'm gonna sing, hug you, then you can buy my album.'

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,

The colder weather during March has kept Spring on hold, putting the stops on people buying new clothes and venturing out of doors and into the high street.

Paul Gascoigne

The chairman wants to sack me, but I said I will never walk away from Kettering Town and I will fight all the way. I am now looking to buy the football club.

Troy Smith

The first half was our lowest scoring total this season. We had some open looks; we just could not buy a basket.

The financials bottomed out in mid-October. Now everybody and their sister is saying they've got to buy them. There's a perception that the yield on the 10-year note is not going that much higher.

Meg Whitman

  Someone who needs cash might dig up a DVD player in the closet and sell it to someone else wanting to save money by buying a used item.

And I know what the emergency was. He was buying Andover.net.

The evidence indicates that trying to time the market doesn't work. We've done studies looking at the flow of funds vs. performance, and invariably people buy at a peak and don't buy when (a fund) is low.

The entire software industry made one huge mistake in the late 1990s--it focused on buyers and not users.

James Moore

The emergence of fund/investor buying today, rather than long liquidation that was seen 12 months ago, is positive for gold's short- as well as longer-term outlook.