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• My earliest memory from childhood is of fishing with my father. And I remember vividly we were in a store, and we were buying a pup tent to go on our first camping trip.

  David Suzuki

  Memories, Father, Fishing

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• If you look at the economics of Nokia roughly half of the company, half of the business, half of how we think about the business is focused on those emerging markets and on those lower-priced devices. But, of course, people who are aspirational and buying those lower-priced devices today are looking at smart phones tomorrow, and so forth.

  Stephen Elop

  Smart, Thinking, Phones

  "Quest Means Business", edition.cnn.com. October 26, 2011.

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• If you're buying tomatoes pick them up and smell them-they should have a lovely perfume. They need to be kept at fifty degrees or above, particularly during the growing season, because that's when they develop their flavor.

  Julia Child

  Smell, Should Have, Lovely

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• When governments are selling, you should be buying. And when governments are defaulting, we should look at that as an opportunity.

  David Bonderman

  Opportunity, Government, Looks

  "TPG's Bonderman Sees Mega LBO Coming - $10-15B Deal". www.businessinsider.com. March 04, 2011.

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• It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media.

  Bill Mumy

  Media, Age, Golden

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• It's still so rare for anyone to be personally acknowledged by a brand that the impact of such a simple, polite gesture on a customer's buying habits could be huge.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Simple, Impact, Gestures

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• Families buying dog food now, starvation roams the streets. Babies die before their born, infected by the grief.

  Stevie Wonder

  Dog, Baby, Grief

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• Suddenly, the world is realizing that gold is still a safe haven asset. We've seen pretty substantial losses in equity markets. I think this is genuine safe-haven buying.

  James Moore

  Loss, Thinking, Safe Haven

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• One market paradigm that I take exception to is: Buy low and sell high. I believe far more money is made by buying high and selling at even higher prices.

  Richard Driehaus

  Business, Believe, Finance

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• On the one hand, we're constantly told about recycling and cutting back, and on the other hand we have to buy the next gadget that comes along three weeks after the last one you bought. It's absolutely insane. We've been suckered into buying and buying and upgrading and upgrading. We're being given two very different mantras at the moment, I think.

  Martin Freeman

  Cutting, Thinking, Hands

  "Martin Freeman: 'I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised'". Interview with Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2010.

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• When I was older and I first started working, I was obsessed with buying my first Chanel jacket. I saved up my hard-earned money, went to Barneys, and bought a little black Chanel jacket. It saw many, many job interviews and many, many events. I'm not fitting into it lately, but I still have it.

  Nina Garcia

  Jobs, Black, Littles

  "Nina Garcia So Over ‘Angry Shoes,’ Says ‘Polished Girl Is Back’", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2010.

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• I think I learned a lot about not buying into a lot of hype. I wanted to be a kind of faceless entity; I didn't want to be Dhani Harrison and the Muppets or something like that.

  Dhani Harrison

  Thinking, Hype, Want

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

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• I feel like if I'm going to give you a book about my dad, then I really want to give you my dad, because he is interesting and he is funny and if you're buying a book about him, I don't want you to have to sit through stuff that's not him.

  Justin Halpern

  Dad, Book, Giving

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• If you're buying an album because of the face on it, you're stupid.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Stupid, Albums, Faces

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

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• I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.

  Jared Kushner

  Building, Apartment, Ran

  "An accidental proprietor" by Tom Teodorczuk, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2008.

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• Buying art is not understanding art.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Art, Understanding, Buying Art

  "Anselm Kiefer: 'Art is difficult, it's not entertainment'" by Alex Needham, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2011.

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• Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company's announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring a counterfeiter.

  Bill Keller

  Play, Calling, Cash

  "All the Aggregation That’s Fit to Aggregate". www.nytimes.com. March 10, 2011.

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• Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.

  Laura Mennell

  Animal, Support, Pet

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

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• I don't think they like the idea that the people who are buying the record get to choose what goes out, because it's their job. The fans even pre-ordered stock to make sure that I had some sort of presence.

  John Otway

  Jobs, Thinking, Ideas

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• I watched my parents go from having very basic jobs to educating themselves, to buying a house. They set a really good bar for what they wanted their kids to achieve.

  Tinie Tempah

  Jobs, Kids, Parent

  "Tinie Tempah interview: 'It's a new day, a new age, a new outlook'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2011.

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• I'm not buying a boat because of writing skits.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Writing, Boat, Skit

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

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• Athletes, coaches and parents today are increasingly aware of the danger of concussion, and this awareness influences decisions about buying new and reconditioned football helmets.

  Tom Udall

  Football, Athlete, Decision

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• I didn't want to pretend to be a conceptual artist that charges $10,000 for an experience. It's just not what I am. I'm a photographer and I make prints. And people buy a print, and I understand that. But I'm uncomfortable with buying an experience.

  Alec Soth

  Artist, People, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show - that's just how I think.

  Rachel Zoe

  Girl, Reading, Party

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