Famous Quotes & Sayings

The reason you buy insurance is to protect yourself financially. If you get really sick, it doesn't do you much good if you have a $3,000 deductible and now don't have $3,000.

There has been a big move to sell car accessories as if they were fashion items. It's a status symbol in the same way jewelry is - people can buy in at every level.

Patrick Ness

Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.

Steve Jobs

We think this is a real breakthrough. It's never before been done, where you can buy hit prime-time TV shows the day after they're broadcast.

Henry Blodget

We think the Internet is tremendously profound. It will continue to have an effect on the global economy over the next five-to-10 years. But there's no way that it is a large enough opportunity to support the 400 companies that have gone public. And I think if you look back in history at different emerging industries, we've often had this feeling that the PCs for example are going to change the world. All you have to do is buy a PC company and you're safe. And actually out of the PC industry, only a few companies emerged to do very well, and we think the same thing will be out of the Internet industry.

Daniel Boone

Why not return some cash to shareholders instead of having to always buy back shares?

Why not just walk over to Vanguard and buy the S&P 500 index fund?

Why don't you ... downgrade the quality of the carpet or whatever, raise the price 5% ... and know that the person will probably just buy up the nicer carpet anyway?

Why can't you buy the right educational experience for kids, buy that magic package that gets them into Yale? It might work in deciding what car to buy, but it doesn't work into how to raise kids. It's a long slog.

Why buy a cow when milk is so cheap?

Jenna Morasca

Why are cancer patients so hard to buy for? This question always puzzles me. When people are healthy, things are so simple, including gift buying. A jaunt to the local mall or a day in front of the TV watching QVC can be just enough for all the loved ones on your list.

Kenneth Fisher

To me 'The Big Easy' is shorthand for owning big stocks that are easy for wary investors to buy into. These stocks tend to outperform during the back half of bull markets.

We were told to take anything of a personal nature so I don't think we will be back in, unless somebody buys it and rehires. We were slow, but everybody is slow at this time of the year.

You have to continue to buy the stocks that are leading the market, and for the foreseeable future, that means technology.

You have to buy the right kind of property insurance for the type of danger you're likely to face.

You have to be very, very specific. You can't just buy a handful of tech stocks and think they'll do well. There will definitely be winners and losers.

Will Smith

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

To say that there a narrowing of the field or potential buyer is premature.

We know that political uncertainties will ultimately work themselves out. It's a very good opportunity to buy these stocks cheap.

We know that people need homes, but there's ... something about owning a home and buying something that increases your chances for success.

We were working as much as we could to buy Gatorade here and there.

Those who wait could face long lines at licensing outlets on the coast,. Nobody wants to be standing in line to buy a license at low tide.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who pay for what they buy upon Credit, pay their Share of this Advance.

Zach Parise

We can't seem to buy one right now.

We have former presidents of companies, CEOs and other responsible positions. They've worked very hard, and they like that we give a hand-up, not a hand-out, because our homeowners work hard to get homes and they have to buy them.

Dennis Ritchie

We really didn't buy it thinking we'd have this enormous investment,

Tom Browning

We do have four or five people waiting on the sideline who want to buy it,

Greg James

We don't buy luxury or extra items but we buy necessities.

We don't buy anything with chemicals in here at all because the taste is different, ... No chemicals at all. Not even salt.

When I was younger I thought you had to buy and sell a lot to make money,

When pepper is ground, it oxidizes and loses its oils. It has no pungency. If you buy ground pepper always look for the sell-by date.

When people sell funds from one family to another -- say, Fidelity to Janus -- they know they've triggered a taxable event. But when people sell one Fidelity fund and buy a different Fidelity fund, they don't realize that's taxable as well.

When people buy the hottest stocks or the hottest funds, they end up having less and less diversification.