Buying Quotes

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.

Unless they're a fugitive or a felon, or adjudicated mentally ill, we're not against them buying guns at all.

I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit.

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

Look at music for what it's worth around the world and not just America. In other countries, people are still buying CDs and going to record stores. But in America, it's all about digital. The game is breaking down. But, look at me, you need to know how to play the game the right way.

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

I kept buying bigger and bigger jeans, and once the size 14s got too tight, I thought, That's it. I'm not buying the next size.

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.

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.

But the real focus should be on people who are buying today because the base is so big it will take a long time for any change materialize on an overall basis.

But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.

There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a subway that runs through downtown.

I never look at it like I'm wasting money when I'm buying gold.

I'm always buying gadgets, especially at airports.

In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally.

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

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

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

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

The women are at an advantage - we represent the buying power in this country.

Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.

I don't care what people say about my relationship; I don't care what they say about my boobs. People are buying my songs; I have a sold-out tour. I'm getting incredible feedback from my music.

Buying phosphate-free soap allows you to say, 'My detergent doesn't have the harsh chemicals others do.' The question is, how are you washing with it? The very worst thing for the Earth about detergent is that we heat water to use it.

It's all right buying all these good players but they've got to gel, and that takes time.

You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music.

So much value has been lost in the housing market that people are now buying. If there's any activity in the housing market, it's because values have plummeted to such depths that the 47% can now afford to live in a government-purchased house, or something like that.

There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.