"Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public."
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"But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave."
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"Who was it who said, 'I hold the buying of more books than one can peradventure read, as nothing less than the soul's reaching towards infinity; which is the only thing that raises us above the beasts that perish.'? Whoever it was, I agree with him."
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"Many have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths."
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"That's like buying asparagus and then leaving it at the checkout. Why would you do that?"
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"We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property, it doesn't leave a whole lot of time for non-market values and non-market activity so that love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it."
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"I don't worry so much about whether people are buying my music or getting it for free."
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"The money thing is, the sort of Elvis Presley thing of buying you mother car is great, that's very good. My mother has learned how to spend money."
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"When you're buying a pair of TOMS, if you don't feel like you're part of a community, then I've failed."
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"Of my investments that have been realised, buying my first house turned out to be a pretty good move, which I didn't really realise at the time."
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"... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)"
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"When Berkshire buys common stock, we approach the transaction as if we were buying into a private business."
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"I can understand that an audience, buying a ticket to see a picture of mine, wants to see something funny because they feel confident that at least I have a fighting chance to make a funny film when I make a film, whereas if I make a dramatic film there's one chance in a thousand that it's really going to come out great, so I understand how they feel about that and they're completely right."
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"A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time."
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"I kind of stopped buying vinyl because I'm always on the road and you can never listen to it."
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"Buying is profound pleasure."
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"I couldn't afford [buying Marvel]. I hope I have enough money for dinner tonight!"
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"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."
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"A woman is always buying something."
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"Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power."
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