Buying Quotes - Page 7

I can assure you that buying leases for x and selling them for 5x or 10x is a lot more profitable than trying to produce gas at $5 or $6 per million cubic feet.

You’re not buying news when you buy The New York Times. You’re buying judgment.

We have always said actually this isn't about money, it's not about price. This can be an experience. It doesn't have to be about buying something.

Buying is more American than thinking, and I'm as American as they come.

The Internet is the ultimate in brand-centered buying.

It is to our advantage to have securities do nothing price-wise for months, or perhaps years, while we are buying them.

If you know how to value businesses, it's crazy to own 50 stocks or 40 stocks or 30 stocks, probably because there aren't that many wonderful businesses understandable to a single human being in all likelihood. To forego buying more of some super-wonderful business and instead put your money into #30 or #35 on your list of attractiveness just strikes Charlie and me as madness.

If I see a movie star in the department store buying something, I'll kind of sidle up and see what they're saying, what they look like, how they sound. That's an invasion of privacy.

Stop buying things you don't need, to impress people you don't even like.

Less is more. I truly believe in buying a few pieces with better construction.

Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself.

Sometimes buying the ugly work is the thing that you know you should do.

A lot of our happiness is derived from experiences, not from buying products. People are twice as happy buying experiences as products. People are happy buying experiences. They don't want something that's commoditised.

Outside of London especially, I can't go anywhere without people buying me a drink. There are quite a lot of people who know me from The Vicar Of Dibley and are big Dibley fans, but they don't have things to shout at me from that show.

I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.

By buying big - going narrow and deep, as opposed to a diversifying - you maximize your successes.

Gold is not overvalued at $500, and gold will not be overvalued at $1,500 or $2,000. The real money is buying gold and putting it away.

I am not a supporter of buying a national team.

I live in New York City. I could never live anywhere else. The events of September 11 forced me to confront the fact that no matter what, I live here and always will. One of my favorite things about New York is that you can pick up the phone and order anything and someone will deliver it to you. Once I lived for a year in another city, and almost every waking hour of my life was spent going to stores, buying things, loading them into the car, bringing them home, unloading them, and carrying them into the house. How anyone gets anything done in these places is a mystery to me.

I'm not just buying a car... I'm buying a lifestyle!

Needless to say, I'll be buying my Irwin Tools at Lowe's.

We can serve our customers well only if our buying jobs are right. You cannot sell if you haven't ordered wanted goods into your store.

Why would you pour a foundation, buy machines, hire employees, if you can make as much money buying bonds?

When I'm buying car insurance I ask myself, 'Which company has the most annoying and relentless commercials?'

If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out - either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time.