Top 1200 Buying And Selling Quotes & Sayings

Many investors make the mistake of buying high and selling low while the exact opposite is the right strategy.

Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon.

I've made money over the years by buying into good companies, run by good people, at attractive prices. And I don't try and make it out of buying into the market at one point and selling at another point.

Truth is the pearl without price. One cannot obtain truth by buying it-all you can do is to strive for spiritual truth and when one is ready, it will be given freely. Nor should spiritual truth be sold, lest the seller be injured spiritually. You lose any spiritual contact the moment you commercialize it. Those who have the truth would not be packaging and selling it, so anyone who is selling it, really does not possess it.

I was happy buying and selling gold in bars, as it is easier and profitable.

I don't like to change things too much. I think pretty hard about things before I jump in, and once I do, I feel, 'All right, I don't want to waste the energy of buying, selling this, going on Consumer Reports, test driving, buying, selling a house.' I feel life is to be lived.

We have been successful in buying and selling companies because we have a reputation of fulfilling deal terms in letter and spirit.

People nowadays interchange gifts and favors out of friendship, but buying and selling is considered absolutely inconsistent with the mutual benevolence which should prevail between citizens and the sense of community of interest which supports our social system. According to our ideas, buying and selling is essentially anti-social in all its tendencies. It is an education in self-seeking at the expense of others, and no society whose citizens are trained in such a school can possibly rise above a very low grade of civilization

Buying's easier, selling's hard - [it's] hard to know when to get out.

I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them.

If you go to a venture firm, what you're doing is you're buying money from them in exchange for equity. They have a commodity that they're selling and they have to differentiate themselves.

American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.

I do voiceovers, but being on-camera and selling something? I wasn't really interested. And then I thought, well, wait a minute. Everybody's selling something. When you turn on the tube... And then if you go to Europe or Asia, everyone is selling something. All the guys that don't want to be seen selling something here are selling something there. So I thought what the hell?

If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann müssen sie Deutsch sprechen.

Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.

The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange.

Americans like buying American vs. buying from Chavez or buying from the Middle East.

Government buffer-stock schemes are rife with politics, and instead of generating profits from buying low and selling high, they tend to generate losses.

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.

The buying and selling of women, girls and boys is a frightening modern day form of slavery that must be stopped.

The near absence of bargains works as a reverse indicator for us. When we find there is little worth buying, there is probably much worth selling.

I saw that Donald Trump is selling his penthouse suite at the Trump Park Avenue building here in New York City for $21 million. When asked why he's selling it now, Trump said 'Hey, Americans seem to be buying everything else I'm selling, so why not strike while the iron's hot.'

Network marketing is based purely on relationship selling, which is the state of the art in selling today. Small and large companies throughout the country and the world are realizing that individuals selling to their friends and associates is the future of sales, because the critical element in buying is trust.

Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules and rewards.

Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and selling products online.

Brand loyalty starts in the cradle and ends in the grave, as I wrote in my first book, 'Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers.'

And I also think it's a violin when you're selling it and a fiddle when you're buying it.

The big money is not in the buying and selling ... but in the waiting.

[the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm.

When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.

It's very difficult to run a business when you're buying something for $5 and selling it for $10.

Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

I was working at eBay, so I would just troll the vintage categories, find old amps and what have you. I was buying a fair amount of stuff and playing with it and then selling it back.

It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes, and then buying an insurance policy on those cars.

Shorts wager on price declines by selling shares that they have borrowed in the hope of buying them back at far lower prices.

Never be afraid to ask for too much when selling or offer too little when buying.

Whether it's buying products or researching what you're buying, or just becoming aware of what you're buying, you're saying so much with the money that you're spending.

I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.

Outperforming the majority of investors requires doing what they are not doing. Buying when others have despaired, and selling when they are full of hope, takes fortitude.

I can assure you that buying leases for x and selling them for 5x or 10x is a lot more profitable than trying to produce gas at $5 or $6 per million cubic feet.

The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the opposite. When everyone else is buying, we assume they know something we don't, so we buy. Then people start selling, panic sets in, and we sell too.

There's only one thing that all of the central banks control and that is the base, their own liability, and they can control that in various ways. They can control it directly by open market operations, buying and selling government securities or other assets, for example, buying and selling gold, or they can control it indirectly by altering the rate at which banks lend to one another.

We think of prices as simply the notation of how much we must pay for things. But the price system accomplishes far more than that. Hundreds of millions of people buying and selling, and abstaining from buying and selling, generate a system of signals - prices to producers and consumers about relative scarcities and demand. Through this system, consumers can convey to producers their subjective priorities and entrepreneurs can invest accordingly.

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.

Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

...There is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end... Man, it occurs to me, is a joyful, buying-and-selling piece of work. I have been wrong, dead wrong, when I've decried consumerism. Consumerism is what we are. It is, in a sense, a holy impulse. A human being is someone who joyfully goes in pursuit of things, brings them home, then immediately starts planning how to get more.

Many investors make the mistake of buying high and selling low while the exact opposite is the right strategy to outperform over the long term.

I don't like conflicts of interest; they should be eliminated or disclosed. I believe in transparency: that people have to really not just know but understand what they're buying and selling.

I'm thinking of buying a church and changing it around: maybe selling crack and having a few whores in the pew.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

It turns out that Donald Trump has been very good at buying low and selling high, and it helps account for his amazing business success.

With a profession such as investing, people see the 'doing' as the buying and selling. It is difficult to come home from work, and answer your spouse's question, 'what did you do today?' with 'well, I read a lot, and I talked a little.' If you're not buying or selling, you may feel you aren't doing anything.

Perhaps the most extraordinary characteristic of current America is the attempt to reduce life to buying and selling. Life is not love unless love is sex and bought and sold. Life is not knowledge save knowledge of technique, of science for destruction. Life is not beauty except beauty for sale. Life is not art unless its price is high and it is sold for profit. All life is production for profit, and for what is profit but for buying and selling again?

People tend to look at their businesses from the inside out - that is, they get so focused on making and selling their products that they lose awareness of the needs and buying behaviors of their customers.

Mr. President I am here to tell you we are not buying what you are selling in 2012.

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.