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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."
"Buying cheap to save money is like stopping the clock to save time. Neither works."
"A book worth reading is worth buying."
"If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying."
"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."
"When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke."
"You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music."
"I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant."
"I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon. At least they are mine now."
"Buying is more American than thinking, and I'm as American as they come."
"We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry."
"Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all."
"We've been trying to sell out for years, nobody's buying!"
"When I'm buying car insurance I ask myself, 'Which company has the most annoying and relentless commercials?'"
"If you know how to value businesses, it's crazy to own 50 stocks or 40 stocks or 30 stocks, probably because there aren't that many wonderful businesses understandable to a single human being in all likelihood. To forego buying more of some super-wonderful business and instead put your money into #30 or #35 on your list of attractiveness just strikes Charlie and me as madness."
"It is to our advantage to have securities do nothing price-wise for months, or perhaps years, while we are buying them."
"Less is more. I truly believe in buying a few pieces with better construction."
"I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him."
"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."
"Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like that."
