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• The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.

  John Berger

  Envy, Imagine, Spectators

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• In Joel's view, that reformation begins with people going o the trouble and expense of buying directly from farmers they know - "relationship marketing," as he calls it. He believes the only meaningful guarantee of integrity is when buyers and sellers can look one another in the eye, something few of us ever take the trouble to do. "Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into choosing the person who grows their food?"

  Michael Pollan

  Meaningful, Integrity, Believe

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.124, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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• Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Needs, May, Way

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• Stores don't order merchandise unless they think they can sell it right away. Manufacturers and builders don't produce unless they have buyers lined up. My business contacts describe this as a paradigm shift and they believe it's permanent.

  Janet Yellen

  Believe, Thinking, Order

  "The Outlook for the Economy and Monetary Policy". Janet Yelle's Speech to the Burnham-Moores Center at the University of San Diego in San Diego, California, www.frbsf.org. February 22, 2010.

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• A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Birthday, Age, Finals

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.105, BookBaby

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• The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.

  Paul Dirac

  People, Suffering, Wish

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• Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Home, Eight, Shoes

  "Can’t sell your home? Here are 9 tips that will help" by Barbara Corcoran, www.today.com. December 15, 2010.

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• The purpose of driving traffic to your online business is to get customers. Once a prospect lands on your site, you still have to convert that prospect into a buyer.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Land, Purpose, Driving

  Marc Ostrofsky (2013). “Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can't imagine they'll get it from these folks.

  Gail Collins

  Running, Home, Careers

  "The Value of College". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 25, 2012.

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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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• Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets felt psychologically necessary and rewarding, where respect was dependent on baroque displays. Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It is the legacy of those who have felt pressured by the disdain of others to add an extraordinary amount to their bare selves in order to signal that they too may lay a claim to love.

  Alain de Botton

  Emotional, Luxury, Self

  Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.82, Vintage

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• Whoever coined the term "Buyer Beware" was probably bleeding from the asshole.

  George Carlin

  Stupid, People, Bleeding

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• The key is, no matter what story you tell, make your buyer the hero.

  Chris Brogan

  Hero, Keys, Marketing

  Chris Brogan (2014). “The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth: Entrepreneurship for Weirdos, Misfits, and World Dominators”, p.159, John Wiley & Sons

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• Now, now, hear me out," Hamish went on. "We don't have to kidnap Garrett. Not if we kidnap the buyer." "Or distract him," Angus added. "Like the Bulgari job," Hamish said. "You mean the job that landed half the DiMarco family in a South African prison?" Kat said. Angus shrugged. "Nobody said it was perfect.

  Ally Carter

  Jobs, Mean, Perfect

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• Now may this little Book a blessing be To those that love this little Book, and me: And may its Buyer have no cause to say, His money is but lost, or thrown away.

  John Bunyan

  Book, Blessing, May

  John Bunyan (2013). “The Pilgrim’s Progress Simplified: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index”, p.411, BookCaps Study Guides

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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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• 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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• Money can be issued only in the act of buying, and can be backed only in the act of selling. Any buyer who is also a seller is qualified to be a money issuer. Government, because it is not and should not be a seller, is not qualified to be a money issuer.

  E.C. Riegel

  Government, Buying, Making Money

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• The super-salesman neither permits his subconscious mind to "broadcast" negative thoughts nor give expression to them through words, for the reason that he understands that "like attracts like" and negative suggestions attract negative action and negative decisions from prospective buyers.

  Napoleon Hill

  Expression, Giving, Decision

  Napoleon Hill (2009). “How To Sell Your Way Through Life”, p.51, John Wiley and Sons

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• Why should antitrust laws be used to block mergers that the market, by the existence of willing buyers and sellers, shows to be desirable?

  Henry Manne

  Block, Law, Competition

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• Help for first time buyers and other housing market measures will be welcome.

  Andy Sawford

  Firsts, Helping, Welcome

  "The budget: we pick the key points for local authorities" by Andy Sawford, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2011.

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• Building trust is key to discovering and understanding your buyers' motives.

  Grant Cardone

  Keys, Understanding, Building

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• More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.

  Gertrude Stein

  Marketing, Great American

  Everybody's Autobiography ch. 2 (1937)

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