Buying Quotes

Before the Apocalypse, the closest I'd gotten to death was buying steaks at the supermarket.

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

John Ruskin

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods.

Thomas Fuller

When you buy use your eyes and your mind not your ears.

Czechoslovakian proverb

People will buy anything that's one to a customer.

Sinclair Lewis

Everyone lives by selling something.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It is naught it is naught saith the buyer. But when he is gone his way then he boasteth.

Bible

Piracy n: commerce without its folly-swaddles - just as God made it.

Ambrose Bierce

A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.

Marty Allen

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Harold Coffin

Who buys has need of two eyes But one's enough to sell the stuff.

Anonymous

Bargain: something you can't use at a price you can't resist.

Franklin P. Jones

Don't buy the house buy the neighborhood.

Russian proverb

A fair price for oil is whatever you can get plus ten to twenty per cent.

Anonymous

A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.

Arthur William Radford

An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.

Franklin P. Jones

What costs nothing is worth nothing.

Anonymous

Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

Ben Jonson

Investing in a startup does not make you an entrepreneur any more than buying a grand piano makes you a concert pianist.

Jeffrey Fry

If you have half a nothing - sell it for a double something, resell half at double-price, and buy another something and a half - how much nothing will you have two days from then? Like three. Because three is the short version of π, and π is involved in virtually anything, in some form, if you believe what the internet tells you.

Will Advise

Selling is true fun and the pleasure of selling enjoyed only when someone buys it...Selling and buying are like husband and wife, someone has to sell for someone to buy and vice-versa....Even if both are interesting, sometimes it is closely associated with needs and choice

Anish Rajan

They sell crap to buy you.

Toba Beta

I wonder how Japan's futuristic robot doctors will treat the worst and most widespread disease humanity already has - artificially lowered IQ. Making people stupider makes them buy more stuff – so “How many robots can you afford?” will be the big question of one of the following decades, unless we go back to Communism and produce everything for the sake of it, for free.

Will Advise

These mods made significant improvements to the cars – enough so that I changed my mind (another procedure altogether) every time I thought of selling the damn thing and buying a Toyota. I hope you benefit from this and preserve your ailing finances!Good luck!

Christina Engela

What America is, to me, is a guy doesn't want to buy, you let him not buy, you respect his not buying. A guy has a crazy notion different from your crazy notion, you pat him on the back and say, Hey pal, nice crazy notion, let's go have a beer. America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not just one droning glamorous reasonable voice.

George Saunders

The human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think the reason he buys everything he can buy is that in the back of his mind he has the crazy hope that one of his purchases will be life everlasting!--Which it never can be....

Tennessee Williams

THE ORGANIC FOODS MYTHA few decades ago, a woman tried to sue a butter company that had printed the word 'LITE' on its product's packaging. She claimed to have gained so much weight from eating the butter, even though it was labeled as being 'LITE'. In court, the lawyer representing the butter company simply held up the container of butter and said to the judge, "My client did not lie. The container is indeed 'light in weight'. The woman lost the case.In a marketing class in college, we were assigned this case study to show us that 'puffery' is legal. This means that you can deceptively use words with double meanings to sell a product, even though they could mislead customers into thinking your words mean something different. I am using this example to touch upon the myth of organic foods. If I was a lawyer representing a company that had labeled its oranges as being organic, and a man was suing my client because he found out that the oranges were being sprayed with toxins, my defense opening statement would be very simple: "If it's not plastic or metallic, it's organic."Most products labeled as being organic are not really organic. This is the truth. You pay premium prices for products you think are grown without chemicals, but most products are. If an apple is labeled as being organic, it could mean two things. Either the apple tree itself is free from chemicals, or just the soil. One or the other, but rarely both. The truth is, the word 'organic' can mean many things, and taking a farmer to court would be difficult if you found out his fruits were indeed sprayed with pesticides. After all, all organisms on earth are scientifically labeled as being organic, unless they are made of plastic or metal. The word 'organic' comes from the word 'organism', meaning something that is, or once was, living and breathing air, water and sunlight.So, the next time you stroll through your local supermarket and see brown pears that are labeled as being organic, know that they could have been third-rate fare sourced from the last day of a weekend market, and have been re-labeled to be sold to a gullible crowd for a premium price. I have a friend who thinks that organic foods have to look beat up and deformed because the use of chemicals is what makes them look perfect and flawless. This is not true. Chemical-free foods can look perfect if grown in your backyard. If you go to jungles or forests untouched by man, you will see fruit and vegetables that look like they sprouted from trees from Heaven. So be cautious the next time you buy anything labeled as 'organic'. Unless you personally know the farmer or the company selling the products, don't trust what you read. You, me, and everything on land and sea are organic.Suzy Kassem,Truth Is Crying

Suzy Kassem

One thing you'll learn when you're in the business of selling utter shite to the Great British Public is that there's really no bottom to where they'll go. Shit food, shit TV, shit bands, shit films, shit houses. There is absolutely no fucking bottom with this stuff. The shittier you can make it - a bad photocopy of a bad photocopy of what was a shit idea in the first place - the more they'll eat it up with a big fucking spoon, from dawn till dusk, from now until the end of time. It's too good.

John Niven

Sense will buy you more than dollars.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Sometimes we can't see the relevance of Jesus Christ until we become dissatisfied with the world and realise that there must be more to life than working 9 to 5, buying and accumulating expensive 'things'and being attractive to members of the opposite sex.

Tim Crawshaw

Consumption can be a remedy against boredom and may convey a sense of fictitious power and supremacy, by standing out from the crowd through the extravagance of the expenditure. As it becomes an addiction, however, it might be cured, if the right medication is administered : humbleness and mindful discovery of the others. (“Buying now, dying later”)

Erik Pevernagie

For all salespeople - Driving around and talking to people for a living, with no recognisable return for the time or money spent by your employer - is a job description that belongs in the past.

Chris Murray

If you sound like a contestant from The Apprentice or if the customer believes that they are being sold AT, you have already failed.

Chris Murray

In this wonderful modern age, if you know what you want, you can just reach out and, with the click of a mouse, take complete control of your entire buying and shopping experience.

Chris Murray

22% of current business-to-business salespeople will be replaced by search engines within the next five years.

Chris Murray

We all desperately need brilliant sales professionals far more than ever before – to help us, guide us, keep us informed and stop us from making diabolically stupid buying decisions.

Chris Murray

Salespeople need to “Earn the right” to become suppliers more than they ever did before.

Chris Murray

We all need salespeople who understand the problem and can deliver a solution that works brilliantly for both sides.

Chris Murray

We all need salespeople who deliver value that wasn’t there before they arrived.

Chris Murray

I can’t and won’t promise you magic sales fairy dust or the Jedi Mind Trick for salespeople – they simply don’t exist.

Chris Murray

Remember: when you walk into a DIY store to buy a drill, you don’t want the drill. Your end goal is to make a hole and, in order to achieve this, you have to buy the drill.

Chris Murray

Your target market are more bothered about whether what you sell will get them promoted, sacked, recognised, accepted, praised or laid.

Chris Murray

Don’t tell me you’re passionate about your job – show me that you’re passionate about helping people like me.

Chris Murray

If what you sell doesn’t help me then why are you knocking on my door?

Chris Murray

We all need salespeople with humility, honesty, integrity, empathy and an old-fashioned work ethic that ensures the job gets done.

Chris Murray

Ignore the people who say that the sales industry needs to become professionalised: it already has.

Chris Murray

We all need salespeople who help people with the same enthusiasm shown by a small child describing the best Christmas present EVER

Chris Murray

Get up in the morning on a mission to save prospective clients from the shabby, ill-fitting, overpriced and worthless alternatives that those charlatans - who are your competition - are trying to get away with flogging them.

Chris Murray

The salesperson you’d ideally like to be and the salesperson you’d like to encounter as a customer should roughly be the same, shouldn’t they?

Chris Murray

Salespeople who think that it’s all about price aren’t required: If it can be sold on the internet at the lowest price, you can take the huge cost of a sales team out of the equation.

Chris Murray

When your pipeline is full – with business coming out of your ears – the notion of people asking for a discount will sound hilarious, because you’ll already be at capacity

Chris Murray

And don't tell me debt is not a big deal. Debt will cut off your legs and laugh at you as you grovel in the dirt begging for mercy. If you don't need it, don't get it. If you can't afford it, don't get it. If you're already in debt, get out quickly. If you think you'll never get out, you're right, you won't.

Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

There was a product which seemed attractive, expensive, portable, beautiful and simple. Everybody talked about its beauty but they bought it for it's simplicity.

Amit Kalantri

Money can only used to buy man-made goods.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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.

A. Edward Newton

There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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