Buying Quotes

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

Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.

But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.

Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.

I love fresh flowers for my home. I spend far too much money on them, buying them almost every day.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Federal Reserve can only buy Treasuries and agencies, and moreover quantitative easing typically involves buying longer-term Treasuries and agencies in terms of bills, for example.

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

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.

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

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

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.