Buying Quotes - Page 5

Asking, "How much is it?" is THE BIGGEST buying signal. Telling me, "Your price is too high." is THE SECOND BIGGEST buying signal

It's not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we've given them the right incentive to perform.

To understand KKR, I always like to say, don't congratulate us when we buy a company. Any fool can buy a company. Congratulate us when we sell it and when we've done something with it and created real value.

We're constantly buying airplane tickets; we travel on the Concorde.

As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.

I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.

It took us months of buying all the Coke stock we could to accumulate $1 billion worth - equal to 7% of the company. It's very hard to accumulate major positions.

Wrigley is a great business, but that doesn't solve the problem. Buying great businesses at advantageous prices is very tough.

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.

Fashion is not about buying a second skin. Fashion is about having a fantasy.

I'm buying things for people I don't even know. I'm like Willy Wonka, but more manipulative. Imagine if Willy Wonka had a devious goal.

One market paradigm that I take exception to is: Buy low and sell high. I believe far more money is made by buying high and selling at even higher prices.

You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music.

When even the analysts are bored, it's time to start buying.

I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.

One of the commitments that I personally have now is to a diverse approach to buying businesses, and the operation of those businesses.

Women aren't embarrassed when they buy men's pajamas, but a man buying a nightgown acts as though he were dealing with a dope peddler.

In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally.

[the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm.

And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film.

I'm not buying a boat because of writing skits.

Going blonde is like buying yourself a light bulb!

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

You cannot bore people into buying your product - you can only interest them in buying it.

If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.