Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Adams

The metals are looking nervous, the sell-offs are providing the dip-buyers with good opportunities but for a change the follow-on buying seems to be reluctant to join in.

The mining industry is big where you are, but it's very small when it comes to buying power. It's difficult to compete with manufacturers when those markets are huge.

Their rapidly growing buying power presents a massive market for American goods and services.

The interest-rate gap is stable and might actually narrow a bit, so they are buying yen now.

E. B. White

The Irish made fewer than 20 deals. But the prices of the deals are astounding. They're buying the most expensive properties.

Their first releases are always filled with bugs, so my guess is corporate users are going to take a long time to evaluate Vista before actually buying it.

There are people who would be more interested in buying a laptop that runs Linux if they could get it pre-installed. But the main reason people still aren't using Linux on the desktop is the lack of Microsoft Office.

There are some stocks that are being sold for no particular reason, even though they weren't overvalued. When the dust settles, these may pose a buying opportunity. However, it may take longer for the IT-related stocks to recover.

There are definitely signs that consumer demand has been picking up. Funds are buying heavily.

Steven Johnson

What's encouraging is that the early new platforms - Kindle and iPad - are clearly leading to people buying more books. The data is in on that.

Across-the-board buying is over and investors have to select stocks with good earnings prospects.

Jay Johnson

Some people don't know where to go to contribute to the fund. Buying a shirt when they come in for dinner makes it easy.

Southern Union is buying lines in a region that may have higher production in coming decades. The newest gas-shale play that has the industry most excited is Barnett Woodford in West Texas, just west of the Permian.

Speculation about an end to interest rate rises is strengthening more than ever. The central bank's minutes prompted buying of electronics makers today.

One guy said, 'I have a hard time buying my wife roses when it's her money.'

We went out to dinner and to see the 10 Tenors a couple of months ago with friends. It takes us buying a ticket, putting our money where our mouths are.

We count on you going inside and buying Popsicles. If you don't go inside we generally lose money on you. We're not making it on the gasoline.

We could pull back a bit, but it will be limited to about a 5 percent decline and it will be quick. This market rally has not been about buying interest, but about the total lack of selling interest.

Carly Fiorina

We do not see any meaningful improvement in IT spending, and we are not counting on a strong holiday buying season, ... We still have a lot of work to do. But the results today validate and demonstrate our progress towards our goals of meeting and exceeding all of our integration targets.

Bon-Ton has been losing market share and now it's buying more losers, who have also been losing market share,

Bob's big challenge is developing the perception within his own system that buying proprietary funds won't hurt you.

This case offers the first solid data point (in the U.S.) that buying competitors' trademarks as keywords...could constitute trademark infringement.

This (business) has created credit for people who never had it before -- and that creates buying power and jobs.

This is a financial acquisition primarily. Oracle is buying PeopleSoft for its maintenance stream.

This is a financial acquisition primarily, ... Oracle is buying PeopleSoft for its maintenance stream.

When you look at medium vs. large SUVs, I think there is already a lot of back-and-forth shopping and buying between those segments, and that will continue.

When you have an email server like Microsoft Exchange, which is the most common for small businesses, you end up buying more hardware than you need in order to process the spam you've let in.

With every minute, I was buying time for the runners.

Jeffrey Zeldman

With consumers buying two smartphones for every desktop computer they purchase, the demands, challenges and opportunities of the mobile space are reshaping our assumptions about design and user behaviour.

James Hill

With outlets competing with increasingly lower prices for DVDs, it's probable that people will be buying second-wind DVDs they've never seen instead of renting them.

Qwest was this high-flying stock with a huge multiple of cash flow, ... It's now buying two companies that have more moderate growth rates. I expect to see that price come back.

Prices are being driven up by hedge funds, which are buying platinum because its fundamentals are looking good. Platinum has been in deficit for the past six years, and it's expected it will be in deficit this year.

Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don't quite know how to put our love into words