Buying Quotes

Never let your wife prevent you from buying equipment. A car will not buy a synthesizer, but a synthesizer can buy a car.

Having plenty of time and all the museum's funds at my disposal, I put myself on a regime to buy one picture a day.

Buying is a profound pleasure.

Never be afraid to ask for too much when selling or offer too little when buying.

We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.

I'm afraid of buying a house or anything, 'cause if there's one paparazzi outside for one day, then they'll never leave.

Buying art is not understanding art.

I never look at it like I'm wasting money when I'm buying gold.

I love being a woman. I like dressing up; I love buying shoes.

Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy.

Being stuck in airports, you always end up buying perfume and sunglasses.

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.

Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon.

The big money is not in the buying and selling ... but in the waiting.

When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom.

The irony about selling out is that they only call you a sell-out when your stuff finally sells - I've had products bearing my name since I was 14, but nobody was buying them then.

I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.

I don't like having debts. I don't like buying anything that I can't buy in cash.

The best advertising should make you nervous about what you're not buying.

Be extra careful when buying into companies and industries that are the current darlings of the financial community.

It’s always going to be easy to live like others or other’s life, because creating or innovating something of own is always difficult in comparison to buying or borrowing anything from others.

I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.

The near absence of bargains works as a reverse indicator for us. When we find there is little worth buying, there is probably much worth selling.

[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.

When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.

Everybody in America is a part of this big herd of cattle being led to the marketplace, not to be sold, which is usual with cattle, but to do the buying. And everyone is branded.

When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?

When there is blood on the street, I am buying.

Apple Stores Offer the Best Buying Experience and Customer Service On The Planet

I've been buying the same lambrusco from Correggio [a town between Reggio-Emilia and Modena] since 1965.

When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?

The basic concept of value to a private owner and being motivated when you're buying and selling securities by reference to intrinsic value instead of price momentum - I don't think that will ever be outdated.

Buying, possessing, accumulating--this is not worldliness. But doing this in the love of it, with no love of God paramount--doing it so that thoughts of eternity and God are an intrusion--doing it so that one's spirit is secularized in the process; this is worldliness.

Organic farming is about buying out of a corrupt, illegal and dishonest system.

What is the focus of the new image infrastructure? Attention. It's all designed for capturing, tracking, quantifying, manipulating, holding, buying, selling and controlling attention.

I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

Nothing you will ever do in your lifetime is likely to make you as much money as buying a home and living in it.

Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me.

Nonsmokers should be banned from buying any product a smoker created.

For present buying, I go to Harrods because there are great personal shoppers, who point me in the right direction.

China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .

Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.

Outperforming the majority of investors requires doing what they are not doing. Buying when others have despaired, and selling when they are full of hope, takes fortitude.

Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner.

I end up not buying a lot of things, because I find them ridiculous.

I think every single thing we do is political. Even if you go to the shops and buy a packet of biscuits, then you're buying into the system, willingly or not. I think we're conditioned into thinking political systems as being either communism or capitalism. I think there are a lot more options available. We just haven't explored them.

If you were buying products or going to movies based upon the politics of the people involved, well I probably couldn't go to half the movies I go to.

Until Americans feel that their core asset - their homes - are stabilized, they are not going to have the animal spirits and they will continue to have less buying power.

A lot of share-buying, not bargain-seeking, is designed to prop stock prices up. Thirty to 40 years ago, it was very profitable to look at companies that were aggressively buying their own shares. They were motivated simply to buy below what it was worth.