B Quotes
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“Buying a book is not enough... You must absorb the knowledge it contains. Your personalized knowledge is not what's on your shelf, but how much you put into yourself!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn't have to come in contact with it.”
“Buying a Ferrari is like buying Château Pétrus if you like fine wines. It's the safe choice.”
“Buying a home is always an impulse buy. It's an impossible thing for your brain to absorb fully: to warp your whole emotional and financial life around the shape of this absurd physical thing, this new collection of problems and regrets, ants and undiscovered mold, bad drainage, and cracked foundations that will be your burden until you sell it or it kills you. A thirty-year mortgage is hilarious when you are young and you don't even remember what day it is; it's a grim thing when you are older and see that this debt is a bright, un-ignorable line from the now of your life to its addled decline.”
Source: Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
“Buying a home wouldn't make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling knife.”
“Buying a house is a choice for Childfree and Childless people, not a requirement.”
Source: The Childfree Guide to Life and Money: Make Your Finances Simple So Your Life Without Kids Can Be Amazing
“Buying a lie is one thing, giving it away for free is quite another.”
“Buying a matching blouse and skirt from the same store is a crime. A clever mix of chic and cheap hits the jackpot. Know how to mix styles and labels.”
“Buying a mutual fund or ETF does not automatically make you a passive investor. If your mutual fund is actively managed, you are an active investor.”
“Buying a pair of shoes is one of the most optimistic acts I know, next to falling in love. I like nothing better than to see an old man wearing a brand new pair of brogues or cap-toed oxfords, preferably jaunty orange-brown, unscuffed, heels unworn. We want to be here tomorrow, but buying new shoes, like falling in love, says I plan on being here tomorrow.”
Source: Outside the Dog Museum
“Buying a product or a service is not procurement, that is purchasing. “Procurement” is more multifaceted! “Procurement” will assess needs, define requirements, comb the market and onboard vendors against set criteria. “Procurement” solicits for proposals in formal fashion and allows for a fair, competitive, and ethical environment. “Procurement” contracts based on value for money and maintains full accountability and transparency. To deliver goods and services in the right quality, from the right source, at the right price, to the right destination, at the right time, in the right quantity, and in the right way is not purchasing. The portfolio of strategies required to deliver value for money can be summed up in one word “procurement”!”
“Buying a product or a service is not procurement, that is purchasing. “Procurement” is more multifaceted! “Procurement” will assess needs, define requirements, comb the market and onboard vendors against set criteria. “Procurement” solicits for proposals in formal fashion and allows for a fair competitive ethical environment. “Procurement” contracts based on value for money and maintains full accountability and transparency. To deliver goods and services in the right quality from the right source, at the right price to the right destination at the right time in the quantity and in the right way is not purchasing. All that requires a broad range of strategies, which in one word means “procurement”!”
“Buying a share of a good business is better than buying a share of a bad business. One way to do this is to purchase a business that can invest its own money at high rates of return rather than purchasing a business that can only invest at lower ones. In other words, businesses that earn a high return on capital are better than businesses that earn a low return on capital.”
“Buying a used rental car is kind of like going to a house of ill repute looking for a wife. Anything that's been driven that hard by that many people, you really don't want to put your key in it.”
“Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company's announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring a counterfeiter.”
“Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.”
Source: Looking Backward
“Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others.”
“Buying art is not understanding art.”
“Buying books always made me feel better, even if I never read them.
- Florence Day”
Source: The Dead Romantics
“Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.”
“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them.”
Source: Essays and aphorisms
“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.”
Source: Counsels and Maxims
“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.”
Source: 101 Facts of life
“Buying cheap to save money is like stopping the clock to save time. Neither works.”
“Buying coffee on the street instead of in a Starbucks is the poor man's way to get rich. In other words, you will never get rich by scratching out ten cents from your dollar.”
“Buying experience such as going out to dinner or taking a vacation increases our own wellbeing and the wellbeing of others. Experiences last while material purchases fade.”
Source: Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements
“Buying flowers is not just a way to bring home beauty. It's an expression of confidence that better days are coming. It's a defiant finger in the face of those naysayers who would have you believe your fortunes will never improve.”
Source: Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do: A Novel
“Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used equation we should strive for in our lives.”
“Buying gold is just buying a put against the idiocy of the political cycle. It's that simple.”
“Buying hundreds or thousands of dollars' worth of stuff in order to look classy, stylish, and expensive won't work if you don't know how to wear a 20-dollar dress and look like a million bucks.”
“Buying is a profound pleasure.”
“Buying is an extremely satisfying, macho act”
Source: Seven Days In The Art World
“Buying is more American than thinking, and I'm as American as they come.”
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
“Buying is profound pleasure.”
“Buying is the foundation of most women’s definition of romantic.”
“Buying land is not like buying antique. It is not the only deal available.”
“Buying light bulbs today is really hard, as there are so many different types!”
“Buying love is an illusion. Give freely to those who already care for you, not to purchase affection.”
“Buying my wife a gun sort of like me saying, ' You know, I kinda want to kill myself, but I want it to be a surprise'.”
“Buying phosphate-free soap allows you to say, 'My detergent doesn't have the harsh chemicals others do.' The question is, how are you washing with it? The very worst thing for the Earth about detergent is that we heat water to use it.”
“Buying pollution credits is folly; it doesn't help the environment. Instead of using tax dollars to buy credits overseas, we'll use them at home.”
“Buying real estate at a bargain price can only be done thru proper research and due diligence.”
“Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy.”
“Buying, Selling or Hold in a Share are very-very personal decisions ...”
“Buying shoes is the highest form of shopping.”
“Buying something on sale is a very special feeling. In fact, the less I pay for something, the more it is worth to me.”
Source: Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature
“Buying something on sale is a very special feeling. In fact, the less I pay for something, the more it is worth to me. I have a dress that I paid so little for that I am afraid to wear it. I could spill something on it, and then how would I replace it for that amount of money?”
Source: Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature
“Buying something you do not need is a waste of money, even if it is a bargain.”
“Buying stock is exactly the same thing as going to a casino, only with no cocktail service.”
“Buying stocks when the broader overall market is trending up is a good idea, for long positions. The trend will provide a tailwind for the stock prices to move higher.”
Source: Make Money Trading Leading Stocks: A Beginner's Guide to Free Trading Tools, Technical Analysis, Money and Risk Management, Trading Log for profits in ... Stock Market, Trend and Momentum Trading)