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A LOT OF PEOPLE DO NOT INVEST IN BUSINESS.. THEY INVEST IN BUSY-NESS (They Purchase A Job) -- Robert Kiyosaki
[On Hillary Rodham Clinton:] She always looks so adorable, and she's intrepid; she's the biggest bargain America ever got, bigger than that Louisiana Purchase from my French friends. -- Jackie Kennedy
Her last name was Purchase, and I was sold. I tried to buy, but as there was only one of her, she was OUT OF STOCK. Better luck tomorrow. -- Jarod Kintz
Throughout U.S. history, competent public investments have been an essential complement to private investments - from the Louisiana Purchase, to land-grant colleges, to the Interstate Highway System, to the Internet. -- Felix Rohatyn
I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are really awful songs, but I guess they saw something in them. -- Regina Spektor
Purchase items that can be made into several meals, like a whole roasted chicken, or bag of sweet potatoes, and shop the periphery of the grocery store, avoiding the middle aisles full of processed and higher-priced foods. -- Cat Cora
The rise of the presidency began with the Louisiana Purchase, which in 1803 doubled the land mass of the United States. History taught the framers that, just as Rome changed from republic to empire with conquest of new lands, territorial acquisition would lead to the centralization of political power. -- Noah Feldman
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. -- Raoul Vaneigem
My most recent purchase was a black lace corset. -- Lexa Doig
You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas. -- Ed Markey
Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. -- Adam Smith
The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money. -- Plautus
We had high and boisterous winds last night and this morning: the Indians continue to purchase repairs with grain of different kinds. -- Meriwether Lewis
When consumers purchase a Toyota, they are not simply purchasing a car, truck or van. They are placing their trust in our company. -- Akio Toyoda
I started collecting in the late 1990s. My first purchase was from an auction, a scroll by Dong Qichang, from the early 16th century, the late Ming Dynasty. -- Jerry Yang
Consumers going through foreclosure typically will see their credit scores drop, raising longer-term questions about their ability to rebound financially and perhaps pursue a more sustainable home purchase at some later point. -- Ben Bernanke
Any purchase is one for the future. If you buy a refrigerator, you are making a commitment to the future so that you have food to eat for the next ten years. -- Kenneth Arrow
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. -- Adam Smith
From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase. -- Alex Campbell
I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March. -- J Allard
What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose tuition is hidden away in the purchase price of upscale homes there, and in the corresponding property taxes. -- Robert Reich
Shopping with friends is a great way of still enjoying the thrill of the chase without having to make a purchase. It can also be a real bonding opportunity. Helping your friend find something nice is just as rewarding as helping yourself. -- Sophie Kinsella
If Obamacare is allowed to stand - and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory - there will be no meaningful limit on Washington's reach into the lives of the American people. That is certainly not what the Founders intended. -- John Cornyn
You work with people who are obsessive about shopping, obsessive about owning things and buying things, like this purchase is going to make them happy. And you want to say to them, 'You know, no amount of real estate is gonna fill that void.' -- David LaChapelle
I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy. -- Bram Cohen
Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul. -- Gilbert Murray
And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan. -- David Bowie
It was Dell who came out with their build-on-demand process, where they are able to keep a zero balance inventory. That means they don't purchase parts until an order is received. That is a way to greatly reduced overhead, since you don't need to warehouse parts or overstock parts you may not end up using. -- Jonathan Raymond
My eating habits are the only behaviour of mine that are still manic. I can't walk by a restaurant, a bakery, an ice-cream store or a candy store without making a purchase; the amount of calories I take in today are at least five times as many as I took before starting on all of this medication. -- Andy Behrman
To protect people's lives and keep our children safe, we must implement public-works spending and do so proudly. If possible, I'd like to see the Bank of Japan purchase all of the construction bonds that we need to issue to cover the cost. That would also forcefully circulate money in the market. That would be positive for the economy, too. -- Shinzo Abe
I envision a day when a businesswoman will be having lunch, and then her phone will ring. When she opens it up, she will see an image of the latest Marc Jacobs coat that just arrived in stock. With a click of a button, she can purchase it and then find it waiting for her when she gets back to her office. -- Natalie Massenet
Travel is an emotional purchase -- Bruce Poon Tip
Sell your presence and purchase bewilderment. -- Rumi
Wisdom is not the purchase of a day -- Thomas Paine
Money will not purchase character or good government. -- Calvin Coolidge
Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions. -- lecrae
Limit risk with: Deep analysis Bargain purchase Sensitivity analysis. -- Seth Klarman
Hee that learnes a trade hath a purchase made. -- George Herbert
Hanging onto a bad buy will not redeem the purchase. -- Terence Conran
You sell on emotion, but you justify a purchase with logic. -- Joseph Sugarman
The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase. -- Samuel Richardson
Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love. -- Ovid
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power. -- Benjamin Franklin
It takes me a LONG time to make a big purchase. -- Jessica Chastain
The purchase of any item which helps strengthen Zionism is not permissible. -- Ali Khamenei
It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance. -- Benjamin Franklin
The NeXT purchase is too little too late. Apple is already dead. -- Nathan Myhrvold
Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase. -- Joseph Pilates
How can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance. -- William Shakespeare
DEMAND, PURCHASE & USE LOW CARBON PRODUCTS AND SERVICES. MAKE LOW CARBON SEXY! -- Christiana Figueres
Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors. -- James Branch Cabell
Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep. -- Eugene Field
If I want to travel with my family I have to purchase 7 airline tickets. -- David Koechner
Email is 20-30 times more effective in generating a purchase than any other tool. -- Josh Kaufman
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. -- Charles Dickens
An excuse is the most expensive brand of self defeat you will ever purchase. -- Johnnie Dent Jr.
The second purchase was my ranch, Mockingbird Hill. The third purchase was Longhorn cattle. -- Janine Turner
We are occupants. No one has any lasting purchase on life or on the planet. -- Henry Rollins
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession. -- Ben Jonson
It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase. -- David Foster Wallace
Patenting and purchase of lands are absolutely vital to the health of Nevada's rural communities. -- Jim Gibbons
And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth. -- Walt Whitman
Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality. -- Henry David Thoreau
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness. -- George Bernard Shaw
Sex sells, unless you're dehydrated in which case you'd be much more likely to purchase water. -- Dov Davidoff
Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own. -- Louise Slaughter
Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes. -- Euripides
Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase. [Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.] -- Ovid
The study of economy usually shows us that the best time for purchase was last year. -- Woody Allen
The study of economy usually shows us that the best time for purchase was last year -- Woody Allen
Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants. -- Ayn Rand
Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic. -- R. Scott Bakker
A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell. -- Henry Fielding
Ben Foster dealt with the purchase of my house and service was excellent. Excellent Service all round. -- Chloe Smith
The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting. -- Benjamin Franklin
Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
I think it's very important for Arts Ministers to purchase art, to attend art, to validate art. -- Ian McLeod
We want to get to a point where Twitter highlights lead to purchase of a live game -- Adam Silver
If America wants concessions, she must fight for them. We must purchase our power with our blood. -- James Monroe
The citizen does not so much vote for a candidate as make a psychological purchase of him. -- Joe McGinniss
I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music. -- John Lennon
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin
You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live. -- Alexander Pope
Nothing that man can present to God by way of sacrifice can ever purchase the blessing of forgiveness. -- Charles Spurgeon
It costs $2,500 to purchase a song and I know from experience that I like to score with songs. -- Allan Moyle
The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions. -- Benjamin Graham
Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete. -- Dana Spiotta
It's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth. -- Andrew Solomon
Fear and greed are probably the worst emotions to have in connection with the purchase and sale of stocks. -- Walter Schloss
The public is not greatly interested in saving a little money on a purchase at the expense of service. -- James Cash Penney
Inflation has ... become the cruelest tax, destroying the value of the dollar and adding new costs to every purchase. -- Ella T. Grasso
There's a powerful sense of reality to our concepts, ... These are vehicles we think people would purchase and drive today. -- Bob Lutz
What the Ten Million Solar Roofs Act does is provide consumer rebates for the purchase and installation of solar systems. -- Bernie Sanders
Today's smart marketers don't sell products; they sell benefit packages. They don't sell purchase value only; they sell use value. -- Philip Kotler
If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase. -- Mahatma Gandhi
India has reduced its dependence on Iranian oil. I know their refineries have stopped asking for orders to purchase Iranian oil. -- Hillary Clinton
The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase. -- Gregory Maguire
It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy. -- Frank Tallis
I'm just glad to get off three-hundred ninety-nine (career home runs). It sounds like something you'd purchase at a discount store. -- Dave Winfield
Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure. -- Mortimer Collins
Most Americans think there's already universal background checks. They don't understand why there wouldn't be a background check to purchase a weapon. -- Joe Biden
American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it. -- Dave Barry
Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture. -- Benjamin Rush
The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well. -- Jorge Luis Borges
It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it. -- Adam Smith
I set out in television with one simple goal: to purchase a Russian bride. Didn't work out. Immigration stuff - it's complicated. -- Joss Whedon
I just want to repeat that there's nothing that we've proposed that would make it harder for you to purchase a firearm. -- Barack Obama
Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off. -- Thomas Paine
Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results. -- Warren Buffett
I sincerely apologize to anyone I may have inadvertently offended...The bag was a purchase I made as a tourist in China. -- Cameron Diaz
Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase -- Charles Dickens
He's a wealthy man, a very wealthy man. If you have a half a million-dollar purchase from Tiffany's, you're not a middle-class American. -- Mitt Romney
How happy a thing were a wedding, And a bedding, If a man might purchase a wife For a twelvemonth and a day -- Thomas Flatman
Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world. -- Tony Blair
We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter. From Strength to Love, 1963 -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Housing programs designed to help young families and senior citizens purchase homes should be available to people of all races, including African Americans. -- Loretta Lynch
I'm a fan of making things that I've seen but couldn't purchase, or things I bought that didn't fit the way I like. -- Andre Benjamin
BEFORE YOU JUMP OFF A BRIDGE OR HANG YOURSELF OR BE UNHAPPY PLEASE CONSIDER: LIVE FOR YOURSELF; THOSE WHO HATE YOU HAVE NO PURCHASE -- Nikki Giovanni
Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase. -- George Farquhar

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