“I stopped buying Sunday papers about 15 years ago, because you'd buy handfuls of them, and what you got, because the hard news comes from so many other channels, was opinion pieces. You're better off spending the money on a good novel.” YearsHardOpinionNovelPiecesPaperNewsYears AgoSpendingBuyingSundayPapersBetter OffHandful Author:Gerry Adams
“A lot of share-buying, not bargain-seeking, is designed to prop stock prices up. Thirty to 40 years ago, it was very profitable to look at companies that were aggressively buying their own shares. They were motivated simply to buy below what it was worth.” YearsLooksCompanyShareYears AgoSeekingThirtyBuyingMotivatedProfitableBargainsPropsStock Price Author:Charlie Munger
“The cost of campaigning has skyrocketed in recent years because of the falloff in TV viewership. With only one-third as many people watching TV as did 20 years ago, politicians have responded by buying three times as many ads, driving the cost of campaigning to levels which only favored candidates can afford.” PeopleYearsThreeLevelsTvsPoliticianCostYears AgoThirdsDrivingCandidatesBuyingAdsThree TimesCampaigningWatching Tv Author:Dick Morris
“Now people are worried not about the prospects of buying new things, but about how to pay for the things they bought yesterday, a year ago or years before. It is, as Americans like to say, "a wholly different kind of ball-game".” PeopleYearsKindDifferentGamesPayYears AgoBallsYesterdayWorriedBuyingDifferent KindsNew ThingsProspectsBall Games Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“100 years ago, buying something you could make was considered wasteful; now making something you could buy is considered wasteful. I am not convinced this is a step in the right direction.” YearsStepsYears AgoConvincedBuyingRight DirectionSteps In The Right DirectionBuying Something Author:Stephanie Pearl-McPhee