Famous Quotes & Sayings

People who had been buying the front end and selling the back now have trades they don't like.

Michael Baker

The short-term impact is pretty clear and pretty obvious, and it's to be expected. Traffic really dropped off, ... The main effect of Sept. 11 was to exacerbate a trend that was already in place, and that is that consumers were really buying consumables and buying them in discount outlets. How quickly that will turn around? Your guess is as good as mine.

The three most important factors in buying a home are, location, location, location!

The third quarter corporate results are very good this time, which so far found very little reflection in stock prices. Stocks are cheap and people are buying in a calmer market to fill year-end portfolios.

The things we look at most closely are buying power and selling pressure. There's been no change in that stuff. We're sitting here going, 'well, whatever'.

It's a big economic impact for the town. Everybody's coming in, they're staying in hotels, a lot of people do stay on the grounds but they're buying food, fuel and supplies for the booths.

They're really crossing their fingers, because the disposable income is so low. It's going to take a lot to trigger that emotional buying habit.

Jose Lopez

They're buying pretty much anything that's on their shopping lists.

Michael Kors

There's a whole generation of women who never really heard the word investment before, when it came to fashion. They've been buying things because they were cheap.

There's a severe lack of interest in Asia. There was some physical buying on the dips down. That's started to dissipate.

There's evidence to prove that some of those folks are buying a place on our election ballot, and its it's too valuable to be bought.

There's definitely more buying in gold, obviously on inflationary fears. The funds have continued to buy.

There's definitely been a shift in psychology toward buying equities instead of selling them. People have decided that even though it's going to be a slow recovery, it's better to be in stocks than in bonds.

Jeff Davis

There's cash on the sidelines and a lack of buying commitment as people wait until they can sort out the earnings coming in this week, ... People are waiting to hear if any new trends developed at the end of the quarter, and what they can extrapolate from that about the second and third quarters. In that kind of environment, it's easy to have a little selling.

These are things you have to think about when buying groceries and planning meals, because they can have long-term effects on your child's health.

The same issues which are depressing the consumer confidence numbers are going to depress holiday sales, ... Christmas is going to show up this year as it shows up every year. The question is, how generous are people going to be? Are they going to go whole hog and return to the decadent spending levels of three or four years ago? No, clearly not. People are going to be buying toys, but how many presents they buy, how wide that circle of gift giving is really is in question.

Richard Griffiths

The scare has been there for a while now, and we have kept the consumer fully informed and we feel consumers have made an informed decision to keep on buying poultry.

It reflects that people mostly still have their jobs, still have their money and people are still buying houses.

Jerry Brown

Organic farming is about buying out of a corrupt, illegal and dishonest system.

You're getting money flowing back into some of these big stocks and the tone is good. What's powering it is optimism that at some point and time, we're going to get this final turn in earnings -- it's buying with the thought that you don't fight the Fed.

You're buying stocks on sale. There's never been a market that didn't recover.

You never know when something will go wrong which is why you should protect yourself by buying wedding insurance. Everyone has car and homeowners insurance, but wedding insurance is something most people don't even think about until it's too late.

Younger men have been raised in dual-income households, where they have always shopped for themselves, as opposed to mom buying their things like in previous generations.

Sidney Lumet

I knew I wasn't buying a pig in a poke. I knew how good he was.

Henry Kravis

It's not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we've given them the right incentive to perform.

Henry Fielding

Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.

Tom Jones

I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.

John Templeton

Outperforming the majority of investors requires doing what they are not doing. Buying when others have despaired, and selling when they are full of hope, takes fortitude.

All of these baskets go to families ... and this is part of our homelessness prevention. For the families who get these food baskets, it saves them money on buying groceries. They can put that money toward a bill, electricity or water. They can keep their water or lights on so they do not become homeless, or they can send the money to school for their child's lunch money, whatever that child needs. They can come here and get groceries. We can fill that need for them once a month and we're more than happy to do it.

All of the major players were buying a lot of places and they were going into debt.

Edward Bellamy

Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.

The market would have been down if it had not been for one big buying program towards the end of the day, which most people suspect was the government.

The market will explode if that happens. Today, if you are buying a device, you are buying into an ecosystem.