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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. -- Raoul Vaneigem
Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford. -- Ambrose Bierce
All's fair in love and purchasing. -- Emily Oster
Purchasing and downloading a book on to your e-reader won't necessarily protect it from disappearing. -- Jonathan Zittrain
I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass. -- Christopher Columbus
Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise. -- Michael Jordan
Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice. -- Anita Roddick
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. -- Roger Babson
Exercise your purchasing power as a consumer, volunteer and bring joy to those in need, and share your experiences, tell your stories, and inspire others along the way. -- Blake Mycoskie
The first article carrying Vonnegut's byline, 'This Business of Whistle Purchasing,' a lighthearted criticism of a school fund-raiser, was submitted at the urging of his sophomore English teacher. -- Charles J. Shields
The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes. -- Alfred Marshall
An underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Purchasing power is weakened by uncertainty or insufficiency of income. The cure of business depression is through purchasing power, and the source of purchasing power is wages. -- Henry Ford
Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing. -- Abu Bakr
Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster. -- Bernard Baruch
If you print money like in Zimbabwe... the purchasing power of money goes down, and the standards of living go down, and eventually, you have a civil war. -- Marc Faber
Together with the social responsibility of businesses, there is also the social responsibility of consumers. Every person ought to have the awareness that 'purchasing is always a moral-and not simply an economic-act. -- Pope Francis
The polling of Internet users shows that friends recommendations are the most reliable driver behind purchasing decisions. Right now that market is largely untapped. Facebook and other social networks can allow that to happen. -- Yuri Milner
No economy can continue to function when the vast middle class and everybody else don't have enough purchasing power to buy what the economy is capable of producing without going deeper and deeper into debt. -- Robert Reich
The happiest moments in our life aren't "Oh I got a new hat or a wonderful silvery object, some glistening bauble." But it's when you connect with another human being. If you can find the $18 in your pocket, you are purchasing dreams with that money. -- Russell Brand
It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels. -- Jon Corzine
Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent purchasing them. You don't even need a specific trauma, just 'general depression' is enough, or anxiety, as if sadness is as treatable as the common cold. -- Mitch Albom
If the practice persists of covering government deficits with the issue of notes, then the day will come without fail, sooner or later, when the monetary systems of those nations pursuing this course will break down completely. The purchasing power of the monetary unit will decline more and more, until finally it disappears completely. -- Ludwig von Mises
It may seem strange, but Congress has never developed a set of goals for guiding Federal Reserve policy. In founding the System, Congress spoke about the country's need for "an elastic currency." Since then, Congress has passed the Full Employment Act, declaring its general intention to promote "maximum employment, production, and purchasing power." But it has never directly counseled the Federal Reserve. -- Wright Patman
The greatest danger to an adequate old-age security plan is rising prices. A rise of 2% a year in prices would cut the purchasing power of pensions about 45% in 30 years. The greatest danger of rising prices is from wages rising faster than output per man-hour.... Whether the nation succeeds in providing adequate security for retired workers depends in large measure upon the wage policies of trade unions. -- Sumner Slichter
Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound and there is nothing in the business situation to warrant the destruction of values that has taken place on the exchanges during the past week, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks. We are continuing and will continue our purchases in substantial amounts at levels which we believe represent sound investment values. -- John D. Rockefeller
Straw purchasing is illegal. -- Jason Chaffetz
Electronics companies are purchasing the minerals that come out of the Eastern Congo, and they are illicit; they're dirty. -- Robin Wright
The greatly increased consumption of alcoholic beverages is very largely a direct result of the increased purchasing power created by wartime expenditures. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
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
An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need. -- Ezra Taft Benson
That it is logical, fair and reasonable to maintain the purchasing power of an hour's work in terms of goods and services the employee must purchase in his daily living. -- Charles E. Wilson
My mother was an enthusiastic chef but wildly disorganized, and often preferred purchasing yet another jar of mace or chili powder rather than having to hunt down its last incarnation. -- Janet Fitch
So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. They are momentum investors purchasing highly illiquid investments. That is a recipe for disaster. -- Fred Wilson
Sometimes, instead of purchasing a commodity out and out, people want to buy only the use of it, for a longer or shorter period. The price paid for such temporary use is commonly called hire. -- John Buchanan Robinson
I would recommend to someone that has the money to experience the experience of giving to another and purchasing me a Veyron. A Bugatti Veyron. That will really make you want to give to your fellow man. -- Adam Ferrara
The Gamifaction Movement is trying to help companies engage their audience and community by using game mechanics and wrapping them around shopping or achievements, so you get achievements for coming to a store or purchasing things, like rewarding activities. -- Jane McGonigal
Finding the real joy of Christmas comes not in the hurrying and the scurrying to get more done, nor is it found in the purchasing of gifts. We find real joy when we make the Savior the focus of the season. -- Thomas S. Monson
Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons? -- Sloane Crosley
Federal assistance helps millions of Americans escape poverty every year by providing the stability needed to take advantage of new opportunities. In fact, it is our safety net that allows full participation in the economy. More Americans purchasing goods means more Americans making them, which means more American jobs. -- John Yarmuth
Cash - in savings accounts, short-term CDs or money market deposits - is great for an emergency fund. But to fulfill a long-term investment goal like funding your retirement, consider buying stocks. The more distant your financial target, the longer inflation will gnaw at the purchasing power of your money. -- Suze Orman
I dedicate my store to my birthplace. People over there look very good and have got purchasing power, too, and I think since there are no fashion shops in Ghaziabad, they would want to visit my boutique all the more. And I don't play cricket for all 12 months. So when I'm not playing, I can spend my time looking after my business and develop it. -- Suresh Raina
Collectors are paying for our education by purchasing our art. -- Jack White
It is production that creates purchasing power, not the printing press! -- Peter Schiff
What is the true cost of a purchasing decision that goes wrong? -- Chris Murray
Men use care in purchasing a horse, and are neglectful in choosing friends. -- John Muir
Need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power. -- Henry Hazlitt
Word of mouth is the primary factor behind 20 percent to 50 percent of all purchasing decisions. -- Jonah Berger
Our point of view is we will sell more if we help people make purchasing decisions. -- Jeff Bezos
The Central Bank is constantly purchasing, purchasing and selling and vice versa - this is their job. -- Vladimir Putin
You could buy a company of people with your wealth, but would never succeed in purchasing their love. -- Edmond Mbiaka
Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods. -- Adam Smith
On Medicare, I would suggest ridding the system of fraud and bulk purchasing of prescription drugs, to begin with. -- Paul Tonko
The central element in the economic problem of money is the objective exchange-value of money, popularly called its purchasing power. -- Ludwig von Mises
If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit. -- Ludwig von Mises
BJP is committed to transform the agriculture sector. We want to increase farmer income and the purchasing power of villages. -- Narendra Modi
Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned. -- Alfred Hitchcock
Israel gets more than half of all the military purchasing assistance that America gives to all the nations in the world. -- John F. Kerry
We cannot pursue a classical and Christian education as a fad. We are not purchasing intellectual hula hoops for the kids. -- Douglas Wilson
The cost to Tata of purchasing Land Rover and Jaguar may have been small, but its wider symbolic significance is enormous. -- Martin Jacques
We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power. -- Alan Greenspan
Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound ... my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks -- John D. Rockefeller
A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms. -- David Dreman
Naive inflationism demands an increase in the quantity of money without suspecting that this will diminish the purchasing power of the money. -- Ludwig von Mises
Using a service such as Chegg.com, students can save on average more than $600 a year when they rent textbooks over purchasing them. -- Osman Rashid
Sproxil will help combat the multi-billion dollar counterfeit drug market, empower customers, and give them the resources to make informed pharmaceutical purchasing decisions. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power. -- Peter Schiff
The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
The reality is that nearly 80 percent of the world's purchasing power lies outside the United States, and if we don't tap those markets, others will. -- John Hoeven
Not sure how I feel about reality. I'm going to begin purchasing stuffed animals and endowing them with the qualities people in my life lack. -- Dov Davidoff
The price of imported oil in the US doubled between summer 2003 and summer 2005, reducing consumers' purchasing power by more than 1 per cent of gross domestic product. -- Martin Feldstein
Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions. So they're essentially the victims of a marketing and capitalist machine gone awry. -- Douglas Rushkoff
To the extent residency preferences prevent families and senior citizens from purchasing homes because of race, ethnicity or color, the preferences violate federal law and cannot be tolerated. -- Loretta Lynch
The biggest share of U.S. exports to the six CAFTA nations is not the traditional job-creation kind. These are products that are not consumed in the purchasing nations. -- Stephen F. Lynch
Basically, unless you're willing to write down debts and save the economy, you're going to have deflation and a steady drain in purchasing power - that is, shrinking markets. -- Michael Hudson
When a copier sales person cold calls a purchasing manager whom he has never met is it any surprise that the purchasing manager will most likely never return that call? -- Josh Turner
Advertisers realize that Gen Y is the largest purchasing cohort. Also, that you're going to have to accept some different modes of thinking if you're going to get to them. -- Shane Smith
And then the man reminded Max, with a serious but suave and practiced air, that freedom was a debt that could be repaid only by purchasing the freedom of others. -- Michael Chabon
If ever there was an area in which to do the exact opposite of that which government and the media urge you to do, that area is the purchasing of gold. -- Robert Ringer
We are all too keenly aware that those of you who supported us by purchasing the 3DS in the beginningmay feel betrayed and criticize this decision [to cut the console's price]" -- Satoru Iwata
Now, the black man here was so-called free by [Abe] Lincoln 100 years ago. The black man in America has an - has a purchasing power of 20 billion dollars. Now, and he's educated. -- Malcolm X
People fail to realize there's a difference in kinds of money. There is old money and there is new money. Old money has political power but new money has only purchasing power. (1963) -- LIFE Magazine
When you're making a purchasing decision around an appliance or a car or a home, that's when to take the environment into mind, but don't dwell so much on paper versus plastic. -- Chip Giller
People should have an escape valve for their money, their assets. If you have substantial financial assets, the government is going to confiscate the purchasing power of those assets and spend it. -- Peter Schiff
When capital owners are few, the private-property conduits of necessity create vast savings reservoirs for those few. If there were many owners, the same conduits would broadly irrigate the economy with purchasing power. -- Louis O. Kelso
On occassion, slaves in Spanish New Orleans owned slaves, whose labor they could appropriate toward purchasing their own freedom, or whose ownership they could trade as a partial payment on their own freedom. -- Ned Sublette
Energy use, transportation options, food choices, water use, purchasing choices, participating in elections, volunteering for nonprofits . . . and within each of these categories, each of us can learn to live a more conscious life. -- Jayni Chase
The market insures that any quantity of money is capable of performing all the work required of a medium of exchange by adjusting its purchasing power to the underlying conditions of supply and demand. -- Joseph Salerno
When the dollar collapses, it's not doing it in a vacuum. If the dollar loses value, it's doing so relative to some other currency. So the purchasing power that we lose, somebody else gets. -- Peter Schiff
Is it any more moral to dilute the value of the purchasing power of the money you hold in your wallet than it is for the farmer to dilute the milk supply with water? -- Ron Paul
The theory which follows is entirely based on a calculus of pleasure and pain; and the object of economics is to maximize happiness by purchasing pleasure, as it were, at the lowest cost of pain. -- William Stanley Jevons
The illusiveness of this concept of national income is to be seen in its dependence on changes in the purchasing power of the monetary unit. The more inflation progresses, the higher rises the national income. -- Ludwig von Mises
Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to forego all economic gain in order to increase the purchasing power of all the wealth accumulated in past years. -- Charles E. Wilson
The gold standard makes the money's purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence. -- Ludwig von Mises

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