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• Money actually becomes even more difficult than other things because it's very hard to imagine what the benefits are to saving. So, imagine that you see a new bicycle, a new pair of shoes, or something today. You know exactly what you are giving up if you are not buying it, what are you gaining in the future if you are not getting it. So, you are giving up the bicycle today, what is it in the future? What will happen if you send another $1,000 to your retirement fund? What difference will it make? It is very, very hard to figure out.

  Dan Ariely

  Retirement, Giving Up, Shoes

  The Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• To some extent the shorter the writing assignment is, the harder it is to accomplish, and a blurb is 200 words max. Blurbs are meaningless, and actual people who are buying the books don't care about them at all.

  Emily Gould

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I blame all the craziness of people buying houses, re-doing them and selling them, on these programs on television where they are redoing your homes and kitchens.

  Barbara Hulanicki

  Home, People, House

  "Biba Lives". Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 26, 2009.

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• [W]omen's magazines know that more than two thirds of women pray each day so they tend to promote "spirituality" which is warm, soft, fuzzy, and "me-centered, " rather than religion, which is definitely not. Shot with a soft-focus lens, spirituality in women's media has morphed into another method of stress reduction. Lulling and inoffensive, spirituality is more about taking long walks and buying $65 Jo Malone scented candles than making ethical decisions or moral judgments. It's another way to calm ourselves, refresh ourselves, or applaud ourselves.

  Myrna Blyth

  Stress, Two, Long Walks

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• The impact on a customer of a bad buying decision is usually greater than the impact of a salesperson of a lost deal.

  Donal Daly

  Impact, Decision, Lost

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• The Internet is the ultimate in brand-centered buying.

  Al Ries

  Internet, Brands, Ultimate

  Al Ries, Laura Ries (2009). “The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding: How to Build a Product or Service into a World-Class Brand”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Most people assume that a record shop's success lies in selling records. In fact, Virgin's success both in mail order and the record shops lay in skill at buying records.

  Richard Branson

  Lying, Order, Skills

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• I think buying a home is the best investment that any individual can make

  John Paulson

  Home, Thinking, Investment

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• Whether you are buying a car or casting a ballot, choosing a job or planning a family, follow your moral compass. Don't let others define you. Don't let advertisers mold you; don't let zealots ensnare you; don't let conventional wisdom trap you....you are part of a much larger whole.

  Denis Hayes

  Jobs, Car, Casting

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• Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Selling, Bigs, Profit

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• People are buying only one thing from you: the way the engagement (hiring you, working with you, dating you, using your product or service, learning from you) makes them feel.

  Seth Godin

  People, Dating, Engagement

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• The best way to make a sale is to ask for ask for a date of beginning, or some type of commitment to move forward after you are certain you have removed all the risks, and all the barriers, from your prospect's buying process.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Moving, Commitment, Risk

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• Asking, "How much is it?" is THE BIGGEST buying signal. Telling me, "Your price is too high." is THE SECOND BIGGEST buying signal

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Asking, Signals

  Twitter post from Feb 10, 2016

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• Buying experience such as going out to dinner or taking a vacation increases our own wellbeing and the wellbeing of others. Experiences last while material purchases fade.

  Tom Rath

  Vacation, Going Out, Dinner

  Tom Rath, James K. Harter, Jim Harter (2010). “Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• Having money and buying things with money is a good thing. But also do not forget to check occasionally to lose if you do not buy anything with money or not

  George Horace Lorimer

  Buying Things, Forget, Good Things

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• I've made money over the years by buying into good companies, run by good people, at attractive prices. And I don't try and make it out of buying into the market at one point and selling at another point.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Years, People

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• And to all of you, what it really comes down to is: If you're buying a book with my name on it, I feel I owe it to you to have it be the best book that I can make it.

  Peter David

  Book, Names, Being The Best

  Peter David (2016). “Knight Life”, p.6, Courier Dover Publications

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• There is no necessity for going to the church and hearing the same story forever. Let the minister write what he wishes to say. Let him publish it. If it is worth buying, people will read it. It is hardly fair to get them in a church in the name of duty and there inflict upon them a sermon that under no circumstances they would read...the idea of going fifty-two days in a year to hear anybody on the same subject is absurd.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Writing, Years, Names

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• If you're living hand-to-mouth, and still buying into the con that the big threats to America are socialized medicine, Mexican immigrants and tax increases, then you're not being kept down by the rich. You're being kept down by you.

  Bill Maher

  Hands, Medicine, America

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• Nobody would put as little thought and effort into buying an automobile as they put into deciding who to elect as President of the United States.

  Thomas Sowell

  Effort, President, United States

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.313, Hoover Press

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• In 1905, when you went motoring, you took your mechanic. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the automobile, but buying a Ford wouldn't have made sense if everyone still needed a mechanic on board. In 1955, when you used your computer, you took your programmer. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the computer, but buying a micro wouldn't have made sense if everyone still needed a programmer.

  Gerald Weinberg

  Years, Twenties, Boards

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• In the wake of the housing debacle in California, more people are buying less expensive homes, making bigger down payments, and staying away from 'creative' and risky financing. It is amazing how fast people learn when they are not insulated from the consequences of their decisions.

  Thomas Sowell

  Home, California, People

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.30, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• One third of the $15 trillion of mortgages in existence in 2008 are owned, or securitized by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie Mae, the Federal Housing and the Veterans Administration. Wall Street buyers of repackaged loans didn't mind buying risky paper because they assumed that they would be guaranteed by the federal government: read bailout from the taxpayers. Today's housing mess can be laid directly at the feet of Congress and the White House.

  Walter E. Williams

  Wall, White, Feet

  Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.47, Hoover Institution Press

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• You don't get married to get sex. Getting married to get sex is like buying a 747 to get free peanuts.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Sex, Married, Peanuts

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• We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end.

  John Fowles

  Rewards, Next, Pleasure

  John Fowles (1970). “The Aristos”, Signet Book

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