Buying Quotes

I have a very big family and a lot of friends, and buying presents is one of my favorite things to do.

There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.

In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights, leasing, entertainment, intellectual property, forensic accounting, criminal offenses... the list goes on. Now, you have to have a separate lawyer for each one of those categories!

Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.

The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do deserve to lose money.

I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.

Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.

We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.

When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

The real story in housing will be a recovery in the economy that will drive a recovery in housing, When people are working, when there are more jobs, more households forming and people go back to buying cars, they're going to want their apartments and homes. And that's when you'll start to see a recovery in home prices.

The experience is fundamentally different for buying from local businesses than it is for buying consumer goods.

Here is my general approach to the energy companies. You have already charged the utilities a 50 percent credit penalty for the power they were buying from you. You're charging us a penalty. You're not going to get two bites of the apple here.

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.

I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.

I was raised in California, so this whole New York winter thing is completely new for me. I've already justified buying seven coats!

There are countries that prefer to think that they're buying comfort at the cost of others, but I don't think that's the way you can act in this world. There are no neutral groups.

I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.

Ron Paul's crazy talk about the Federal Reserve makes more sense these days. Right now, every - all this debt issued by the United States people assume the Chinese are buying, no they don't want any more American debt. Ron Paul has a point there.

You know, when I eat three peas, I'm pregnant. When I visit a city, I'm buying a house.

The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.

I don't really spend money like crazy. I buy what I need and what I really want, and if I'm buying expensive things I do think about the purchase many times before I buy it.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

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.

Many people think that buying a fake product is harmless, but counterfeiting is estimated to result in annual losses of over $20 billion dollars to American companies.

People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.