Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed Begley, Jr.

If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling.

David Brooks

If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things we do. Go into a furniture store and look at a sofa.

Large-caps were safe in 1996, '97, '98. Everybody was buying index funds and Nifty Fifty funds. As long as money was pouring in, it was great.

The point is to demonstrate what a day without us would be like. Without us buying clothes, without us purchasing gasoline, without us buying food. . . . We have taken many steps forward, now is not the time to take steps back.

We've all been conditioned to say, 'lower interest rates, higher stock prices, better buying opportunity,'

We are seeing a little retraction. Some people took profits by selling the Canadian dollar and buying euros.

We're in a process now of replenishing. We had coming up on a week's worth of buying in one day,

Where people make a mistake is that they think high-quality companies will translate into high quality stocks, and that often is not the case. With a popular company, you get high expectations and that can push things up so that the stock is not worth buying for awhile.

Liya Kebede

I know how much parents love buying clothes for their kids and how they want to give them something new in the closet.

There is no more obvious way to play interest rate differentials than buying dollar/yen.

When I was in France, ... people selling the cheese and buying the cheese were ordinary people, not sophisticates.

James Green

What happens with condominiums is people end up buying them as investments and renting them as apartments.

Caitlin Rose

I like buying iTunes. It's instant.

Word-of-mouth recommendation is the most common way to learn about real estate professionals. The most important criteria, whether you're buying or selling, are the individual agent's reputation and their knowledge of the local market.

We're still seeing some good volumes in selected shares and there's definitely a big contingent of foreign buying in our market.

Peter Greene

We're seeing some typical selling after a sharp run-up. People are buying the safe names, like Philip Morris (MO: Research, Estimates) and Coca-Cola (KO: Research, Estimates), and selling anything that seems suspicious.

Peter Greene

We're seeing some typical selling after a sharp run-up, ... People are buying the safe names, like Philip Morris (MO: Research, Estimates) and Coca-Cola (KO: Research, Estimates), and selling anything that seems suspicious.

We're seeing a lot of play between the telecom companies. People are shorting some and buying others.

We?re seeing a fundamental shift in consumer buying behavior. We expect this trend to continue as 2006 will give the mass market dual-core processors and 64-bit capabilities.

We've got low volume and not a whole lot of new buying interest. You're just not there yet from a technical standpoint. It's going to be choppy for the next few days.

We've got deteriorating economic fundamentals still. We're probably in a mild recession, but the question is will the consumer keep buying and will the investor keep buying stocks.

Bill Watterson

Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules, and rewards.

We are already at a critical level, ... There is not enough gas coming in for production to be at 100 percent. It's a critical situation. It's day by day. It's okay if we are buying gas from alternative sources, but getting it into the Florida pipeline, that is the issue. As long as it flows, we're okay. But if that flow ceases, we're in trouble.

We are getting a lot of rotational buying on blue-chip stocks right now. People are buying stocks when they are hurt or lagging.

Yen buying seems to be stalling after an initial round of optimism about the Sept. 11 election receded.

With the inherent value in Cabot's capital program, we recommenced buying shares in late November and early December with the market pull back. We still see a lot of merit and long-term value for the shareholders in looking at COG stock as an investment alternative.

We're going to continue to do what's right for the growth of the business. Our pricing strategy is not to maximize margin percentage growth but to maximize buying for our customers, ... As we grow, we'll be able to get better economies of scale, better prices from our suppliers and our third-party sellers. All that should help margins.

We're expecting very strong first-quarter growth, which means the Fed can keep hiking rates in the first half of the year. This is not a good time to be buying Treasuries.

We're finding consumers all over the world are being discouraged by the rising cost of games, confused by the availability of titles, the lack of information and the often complicated process of paying for and downloading games on mobile. This is slowing the growth of the industry as a whole and in many cases putting people off buying mobile games altogether.

John Thompson

We're getting contributions from 10 guys on a regular basis. Scoring is great, but you have to get some rebounds and have guys buying into defensive schemes. So many times guys who score get the press, but the reality is that the last several games have been total team efforts. It's been a lot of fun to watch.

Bob Wright

Yes, but it's pricey. The stock is very high and they keep buying things.

Steve Jobs

We're really buying into Bob's vision, not the other way around.

With volatility continuing to accelerate, the OPIS SRI provides another way marketers can limit their risk when buying and selling fuel.