34 quotes found
“Money can only used to buy man-made goods.”
“And don't tell me debt is not a big deal. Debt will cut off your legs and laugh at you as you grovel in the dirt begging for mercy. If you don't need it, don't get it. If you can't afford it, don't...”
“One thing you'll learn when you're in the business of selling utter shite to the Great British Public is that there's really no bottom to where they'll go. Shit food, shit TV, shit bands, shit film...”
“We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We ...”
“The human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think the reason he buys everything he can buy is that in the back of his mind he has the crazy hope that...”
“Some are in tune with the swanky, but not in tune with themselves. Their desire has become the desire of the others ('''Buying now. Dying later''')”
“They sell crap to buy you.”
“Selling is true fun and the pleasure of selling enjoyed only when someone buys it...Selling and buying are like husband and wife, someone has to sell for someone to buy and vice-versa....Even if bo...”
“What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty.”
“If you have half a nothing - sell it for a double something, resell half at double-price, and buy another something and a half - how much nothing will you have two days from then? Like three. Becau...”
“Investing in a startup does not make you an entrepreneur any more than buying a grand piano makes you a concert pianist.”
“Piracy n: commerce without its folly-swaddles - just as God made it.”
“A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.”
“A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.”
“Who buys has need of two eyes But one's enough to sell the stuff.”
“Bargain: something you can't use at a price you can't resist.”
“Don't buy the house buy the neighborhood.”
“A fair price for oil is whatever you can get plus ten to twenty per cent.”
“A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.”
“An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.”