Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Munger

Kellogg's and Campbell's moats have also shrunk due to the increased buying power of supermarkets and companies like Wal-Mart. The muscle power of Wal-Mart and Costco has increased dramatically.

Bill Watterson

Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules, and rewards.

Eli Broad

Collecting is more than just buying objects.

Ludwig von Mises

To assign to everybody his proper place in society is the task of the consumers. Their buying and abstention from buying is instrumental in determining each individual's social position.

There is no more obvious way to play interest rate differentials than buying dollar/yen.

When I was in France, ... people selling the cheese and buying the cheese were ordinary people, not sophisticates.

James Green

What happens with condominiums is people end up buying them as investments and renting them as apartments.

We are already at a critical level, ... There is not enough gas coming in for production to be at 100 percent. It's a critical situation. It's day by day. It's okay if we are buying gas from alternative sources, but getting it into the Florida pipeline, that is the issue. As long as it flows, we're okay. But if that flow ceases, we're in trouble.

Ed Begley, Jr.

If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling.

Shorter-term momentum traders are taking their profits right now, and longer-term investors are sitting on cash waiting for a better buying opportunity. The problem is, to get a better buying opportunity, prices have to drop lower.

Shopping online can be safe if the site you are buying from is a secure site. Consumers need to know how to evaluate the security of e-commerce Web sites before buying something online.

She has plenty of respect for money when it comes to buying one of her films!

Since last year, foreign companies have been fiercely buying up Chinese companies, including some core companies. Foreign capital is so strong, a lot of Chinese companies have just collapsed.

She hoped that they would someday find a cure for cancer. She never wanted her kids, or anyone, to go through what she had gone through. She was always there for other people. If she was in a store, and someone ran short of money buying groceries, she would pay for it. She was always trying to do something for other people.

Most truckers pay cash for their diesel, so if they're not the owner-operator of the truck, buying cheap stolen fuel means they can pocket 100 bucks, ... Sure, we used to see theft, but it's definitely increasing as fuel prices go up. Now it's all the time.

Most of this is new buying for the exchange-traded fund. That is playing a role in strengthening the market.

Most of us had known days ago that the U.S. would loan oil but some people interpreted the headline as a release of oil, possibly of products. Then the market realized and started buying it back.

Most of us had known days ago that the U.S. would loan oil, but some people interpreted the headline as a release of oil, possibly of products. Then the market realized and started buying it back,

Motorists have not seen the end of price increases. Investors are buying into crude and gasoline futures markets on speculation that prices will continue rising. Retail prices still have not caught up with wholesale price increases. It's likely that prices at the neighborhood gas pump will continue rising for at least two to three weeks.

Latch doesn't always make it a simple click-in operation to install a restraint. Before buying one, parents should be sure to try fitting it in the vehicle they plan to use it in, because not every restraint is going to fit in every vehicle.

Many householders are guilty of buying new clothes in the sales which will never get worn.

Several trends about online buying continue to develop -- especially regarding credit card security -- that could have major effects on the evolution of Internet commerce.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.