Buyers Quotes

• Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.

  Plautus

  Character, Decision, Consumers

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• What makes eBay successful.. the real value and the real power at eBay is the community. It's the buyers and sellers coming together and forming a marketplace.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Success, Real, Ebay

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• A 'For Sale' sign in your yard during the holidays is like a 'kick me' sign. You are telling buyers you are a distressed seller.

  Ray Brown

  Holiday, Yards, Kicks

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• Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

  Margaret Mead

  Baby, Husband, Children

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• Most of what we know about sales comes from a world of information asymmetry, where for a very long time sellers had more information than buyers. That meant sellers could hoodwink buyers, especially if buyers did not have a lot of choices or a way to talk back.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Long, Choices

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• Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers.

  Stanley Crouch

  Business, Dollars, Lobbying

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• During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts to private and public sector buyers.

  Lawrence Klein

  Support, Pennsylvania, Research

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• Now it's easy for someone to set up a storefront and reach the entire world in very modest ways. So these technologies that we thought would dis-intermediate traditional sellers gave more people the tools to be sellers. It also changed the balance of power between sellers and buyers.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Technology, People

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• The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.

  Warren Buffett

  Optimism, Enemy, Saving

  Chairman's Letter to the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. 1990.

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• Focus on your buyers and your buyers problems

  David Meerman Scott

  Focus, Problem

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• The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.

  Bill Gates

  Inspiring, Success, Business

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• Nobody who bought a drill actually wanted a drill. They wanted a hole. Therefore, if you want to sell drills, you should advertise information about making holes – NOT information about drills!

  Perry Marshall

  Business, Entrepreneur, Want

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• The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.

  David Korten

  Principles, Degrees, Cost

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• In a game there are winners and losers. But a business deal is always advantageous for both parties. If both the buyer and the seller were not to consider the transaction as the most advantageous action they could choose under the prevailing conditions, they would not enter into the deal.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Party, Business Deals, Games

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.

  Victor Papanek

  Order, People, Design

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• Everyone is a buyer, everyone's a potential purchaser and everyone's a potential vendor.

  Joe Hockey

  Vendors, Purchasers

  National Press Club address| Q & A session, jbh.ministers.treasury.gov.au. September 18, 2013 - September 21, 2015.

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• And old Dave, he'd go up to his room, y'understand, put on his green velvet slippers - I'll never forget - and pick up his phone and call the buyers, and without leaving his room, at the age of eighty-four, he made his living. And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want.

  Arthur Miller

  Men, Phones, Careers

  Arthur Miller (2015). “Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge”, p.180, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.

  Joel Salatin

  Children, Food, World

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• Exhibitionism and a nervous wish for concealment, for anonymity, thus battle inside the buyer of any piece of clothing.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Clothes, Wish, Battle

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• In general, an asset should be sold when it has greater value to a buyer. This happens when a buyer has a complimentary business or capability that would enable them to do more with that business. Many businesses we have exited were not failures, but had simply reached a point in their life cycle where they no longer provided a core capability or served as a platform for growth.

  Charles Koch

  Business, Growth, Assets

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• The marketing department uses many advanced techniques to match products and buyers in a way that mximizes profits. For example, they give away keychains.

  Scott Adams

  Giving, Marketing, Technique

  Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”

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• As she brought prospective buyers through, the realtor said it was an oil stain, but it was me, seeping out of the bag.

  Alice Sebold

  Oil, Bags, Stains

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.40, Pan Macmillan

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• I felt like a car that had only been operated by one driver… a car its new prospective buyer was determined to take to the Daytona 500.

  Charlaine Harris

  Car, Determined, Drivers

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.866, Penguin

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• Buying a home today is a complex process, but that in no way excuses home buyers from their obligation for due diligence.

  Henry Paulson

  Home, Due Diligence, Today

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• The sources of deflation are not a mystery. Deflation is in almost all cases a side effect of a collapse of aggregate demand.. a drop in spending so severe that producers must cut prices on an ongoing basis in order to find buyers.

  Ben Bernanke

  Cutting, Order, Ongoing

  "Helicopter Money" by Richard Duncan, www.businessinsider.com. July 1, 2011.

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