Buying And Selling Quotes

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

  Charlie Munger

  Waiting, Buying, Selling

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• Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and selling products online.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Selling Products, Generations, World

  Marc Ostrofsky (2013). “Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Business is not financial science, it's about trading.. buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.

  Anita Roddick

  Business, Creativity, Ideas

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• Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.

  Edward Bellamy

  Buying, Selling, Antisocial

  Edward Bellamy (2015). “Looking Backward”, p.58, Booklassic

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• We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

  Cornel West

  Buying, Pleasure, Selling

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange.

  William Petty

  Buying, Selling, Interest

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• Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.

  Martin Sheen

  Bucks, Buying, Easy

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• When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Witty, Funny Inspirational, Government

  P J O'Rourke (1992). “Parliament of Whores-Open Mark”, Vintage Books USA

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• Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Men, Want

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• ...There is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end... Man, it occurs to me, is a joyful, buying-and-selling piece of work. I have been wrong, dead wrong, when I've decried consumerism. Consumerism is what we are. It is, in a sense, a holy impulse. A human being is someone who joyfully goes in pursuit of things, brings them home, then immediately starts planning how to get more.

  George Saunders

  Home, Men, Pieces

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• 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.

  Alice Walker

  Mean, Selling Things, Buying

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 6, 2010.

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• Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That's not management, that's deal making. Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.

  Clayton Christensen

  Cutting, Opportunity, Thinking

  "layton Christensen wants to transform capitalism". Interview with Jeff Howe, www.wired.com. February 12, 2013.

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• I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Selling Things, Wish, Important

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.46, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Powerful, Moving, Giving

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• Young people refuse the notion that financialization defines the only acceptable definition of exchange, one that is based exclusively on the reductionist notion of buying and selling.

  Henry Giroux

  People, Definitions, Buying

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• With a profession such as investing, people see the 'doing' as the buying and selling. It is difficult to come home from work, and answer your spouse's question, 'what did you do today?' with 'well, I read a lot, and I talked a little.' If you're not buying or selling, you may feel you aren't doing anything.

  Dave Abrams

  Home, People, Investing

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• [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.

  Jesse Ventura

  Political, Buying, Politician

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• The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and
  money began to play an important part in determining
  elections. Later on, this process of corruption spread to
  the law courts. And then to the army, and finally the
  Republic was subjected to the rule of emperors

  Plutarch

  Army, Play, Law Courts

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• I was working in financing. I was buying and selling stocks for a market-maker on the options floor at the Pacific Stock Exchange. He took me under his wing and was training me to take over his accounts. That's the career I had embarked on, at the time.

  Tim Kang

  Wings, Careers, Training

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Momentum, Buying

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• Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit violates our inherent right to nature's gift and denies the poor of their human rights.

  Vandana Shiva

  Rights, Giving, Water

  Vandana Shiva (2002). “Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit”, p.35, South End Press

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• Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.

  Margaret Atwood

  Love, Giving, Age

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.424, Anchor

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• We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property, it doesn't leave a whole lot of time for non-market values and non-market activity so that love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

  Cornel West

  Justice, Buying, Love And Trust

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• People nowadays interchange gifts and favors out of friendship, but buying and selling is considered absolutely inconsistent with the mutual benevolence which should prevail between citizens and the sense of community of interest which supports our social system. According to our ideas, buying and selling is essentially anti-social in all its tendencies. It is an education in self-seeking at the expense of others, and no society whose citizens are trained in such a school can possibly rise above a very low grade of civilization

  Edward Bellamy

  School, Self, Civilization

  Edward Bellamy (2000). “Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887”, p.57, Applewood Books

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• All the real money in investment will have to be made as most of it has been in the past not out of buying and selling but out of owning and holding securities, receiving interests and dividends therein, and benefiting from their long-term increases in value. Hence stockholder's major energies and wisdom as investors should be directed toward assuring themselves of the best operating results from their corporations. This in turn means assuring themselves of fully honest and competent managements.

  Benjamin Graham

  Real, Mean, Past

  "The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing". Book by Benjamin Graham. Chapter I, What the Intelligent Investor Can Accomplish, p. 17, 1949.

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