Simone de Beauvoir
Philosopher, Writer
"Buying is a profound pleasure."
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Buying
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Warren Buffett
Investor, Businessman
"Never be afraid to ask for too much when selling or offer too little when buying."
Laura Miller
Author
"Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal."
Charlie Munger
Investor, Businessman
"The big money is not in the buying and selling ... but in the waiting."
Mary Wells Lawrence
Businesswoman, Author
"The best advertising should make you nervous about what you're not buying."
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"[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it."
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"Everybody in America is a part of this big herd of cattle being led to the marketplace, not to be sold, which is usual with cattle, but to do the buying. And everyone is branded."
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"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?"
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"The basic concept of value to a private owner and being motivated when you're buying and selling securities by reference to intrinsic value instead of price momentum - I don't think that will ever be outdated."
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"Organic farming is about buying out of a corrupt, illegal and dishonest system."
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"Nothing you will ever do in your lifetime is likely to make you as much money as buying a home and living in it."
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"I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters."
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"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."
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"I end up not buying a lot of things, because I find them ridiculous."
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"We can sell our time, but we can't buy it back."
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"We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property."
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"Kellogg's and Campbell's moats have also shrunk due to the increased buying power of supermarkets and companies like Wal-Mart. The muscle power of Wal-Mart and Costco has increased dramatically."
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"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."
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"Wrigley is a great business, but that doesn't solve the problem. Buying great businesses at advantageous prices is very tough."
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"It took us months of buying all the Coke stock we could to accumulate $1 billion worth - equal to 7% of the company. It's very hard to accumulate major positions."
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"Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet."
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"Buying cheap to save money is like stopping the clock to save time. Neither works."
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"A book worth reading is worth buying."
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"If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying."
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"The investor has a right to expect good results to flow from a consistent and courageous application of the principle of buying after the market has declined substantially and selling after it has had a spectacular rise. But he cannot expect to reduce this principle to a simple and foolproof formula, with profits guaranteed and no anxious periods."
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