Buying Quotes

• Buying is a profound pleasure.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Shopping, Profound, Pleasure

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• Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Life, Children, Humorous

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Oct 04, 2010

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• Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Thinking, Buying In

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.54, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?

  Rene Rivkin

  Money, Investing, Wealth

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

  John Ruskin

  Reading, Book, Ifs

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.306, University of Virginia Press

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• Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

  Jean Kerr

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  Jean Kerr (1962). “The Snake Has all the Lines”

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• In writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the goods than the advertising writers because they have had experience in buying them.

  John Wanamaker

  Writing, Mind, Advertising

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• I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.

  Alexander McQueen

  Inspirational, Long, People

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• Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing Money, Talking, Quality

  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, 2008.

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• Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Time, Mistake, Book

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.51, Publishdrive

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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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• 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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• Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Success, Money

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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 real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy.

  Marshall Field

  Real, Way, Estates

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• A book worth reading is worth buying.

  John Ruskin

  Book, Reading, Reader

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• Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.

  Anderson Cooper

  Children, Emotional, Firsts

  "Surviving the real estate game". Details Magazine, edition.cnn.com. August 2005.

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• 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.

  Henry Kravis

  Real, Done, Fool

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• Our industry expertise (at KKR) enables the firm not only to make better investment choices but also to win the confidence of senior management and sellers, which has enabled us to purchase many companies on an exclusive basis.

  Henry Kravis

  Senior, Winning, Choices

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• The person that is buying a share of stock is convinced he knows something that the other person who's selling it to him does not know. There's no zero sum game in Wall Street.

  Bernard Madoff

  Zero, Wall, Games

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  Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Life, Fashion, Failure

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• Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

  Richard DeVos

  Life, Relationship, Money

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• The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind, but "the true saint" goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moment.

  Abu-Sa'id Abul-Khayr

  God, Spiritual, Single Mom

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• Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

  Antonin Scalia

  Teaching, Learning, Character

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