When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.
You don't get rewarded for taking risk; you get rewarded for buying cheap assets. And if the assets you bought got pushed up in price simply because they were risky, then you are not going to be rewarded for taking a risk; you are going to be punished for it.
What is the focus of the new image infrastructure? Attention. It's all designed for capturing, tracking, quantifying, manipulating, holding, buying, selling and controlling attention.
We all get a little rush of excitement at the prospect of buying a brand-new outfit for a first date, but this is not the time. You're much better off wearing clothes, shoes especially, that you've already tested.
There's no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.
Every four years, I'll watch figure skating, but I'm no closer to buying tights.
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
I think buying a home is the best investment that any individual can make
Buying's easier, selling's hard - [it's] hard to know when to get out.
More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.
To all the worryworts out there who said super PACs were going to lead to a cabal of billionaires secretly buying democracy: wrong! They are publicly buying democracy.
I prefer buying things and figuring out where to put them later than regretting not buying them.
When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?
We can serve our customers well only if our buying jobs are right. You cannot sell if you haven't ordered wanted goods into your store.
Fabrics and lining make a big difference in the garment. If you're buying an expensive trench coat, and it's lined in something cheap, it doesn't feel as nice.
I don't go to McDonalds, but when I was working for Gourmet magazine in New York City, my daughter liked to go there. I was completely paranoid that someone would recognize me there and say, 'Gourmet critic spotted at McDonalds! Buying a Happy Meal!'
If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann müssen sie Deutsch sprechen.
And to all of you, what it really comes down to is: If you're buying a book with my name on it, I feel I owe it to you to have it be the best book that I can make it.
Everything kind of was leading towards that and I had so many specific ideas always about how exactly I wanted something to look. I would customize so many things in my wardrobe that were vintage or things that I was buying, and it just really all aligned and the timing was perfect.
If we didn't have the Chinese buying things, we'd be on the floor.