Top 1200 Buying Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Speed is the No. 1 thing. Our core competency has been doing exactly this: buying companies and integrating them quickly.

When I was 18, I was working at Luton airport and spending all my money on going out and buying tops. I had no fears, no responsibilities.

Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.

Could the garment and appliance industries be in cahoots together, creating an artificial sock demand to keep us buying?

Overwhelming, student loan payments are holding millions back from buying homes, starting families, and saving for retirement.

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.

When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot.

Since the littoral combat ship plays a vital role, we want to make sure we're buying the correct version.

I was four or five, and my mom got all the Power Rangers to come through. I thought it was really them. I started crying tears of joy. It was so amazing. My favorite Power Ranger was the green one. He wasn't in every episode - he was rare, like Based God. He was like the Based God Power Ranger.

One of the reasons so many people get burned in the market is because they start buying as they see prices going up.

Why would you pour a foundation, buy machines, hire employees, if you can make as much money buying bonds?

Right now, there is no way that the federal government can prevent someone who's on the terror watch list from buying a gun - none.

I didn't know that buying expensive paint was a good thing and important. I always used whatever is cheapest, which I'm into, too.

I know for sure that you have to re-define power as power that comes from within. Success needs to be more comprehensive and attached to something with meaning.

Now this circumscribed power, which we have scarcely examined, scarcely studied, this power to whose actions we nearly always attribute an intention and a goal, this power, finally, that always does necessarily the same things in the same circumstances and nevertheless does so many and such admirable ones, is what we call 'nature' .

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.

A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back.

I have no one to blame for the construction for myself, of course, but I'm always surprised and slightly sulky when I realize? people are buying the whole thing.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

According to the Mayans, the world is supposed to end in the year 2012. Are you buying that? When's the last time you even ran into a Mayan?

Cena, love him or not, connects with the ticket buying public better than any one in the biz. End of story.

Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.

The reason that so many of us cannot save money is because of our friends. They're always buying something we can't afford.

What we are entering is a power age, and the importance of the power age lies in its ability, rightly used with the wage motive behind it, to increase and cheapen production so that all of us may have more of this world's goods. The way to liberty, the way to equality of opportunity, the way from empty phrases to actualities, lies through power

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

We have all been told that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I have long thought this is nonsense.

Some sell their soul for the easy road. The devil's always buying. I can't count the ones I've known who fell right into line.

People are buying music from 12-year-olds. No one realizes they didn't create this. They didn't write this. They didn't make this. All they have to do is press play, and you have a band.

Labour day is a great American holiday that people celebrate by going out and buying products made in China

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

There is so much to be gained from investing more time in what we eat. Buying fresh ingredients means knowing where your food comes from and what's in it.

After years of buying clothes I intend to diet into, I'll say this: the skeleton in my closet has some really nice outfits.

Yves Saint Laurent will never go out of business so long as I'm buying mountains of Touche Eclat.

[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.

If our men and women in uniform are restricted from buying first-class airfare, the same should apply to Congress.

I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally.

I have no problems with buying tampons. I am a fairly modern man. But apparently they're not a "proper" present. "Happy birthday, mum!"

What's encouraging is that the early new platforms - Kindle and iPad - are clearly leading to people buying more books. The data is in on that.

To me the bicycle is in many ways a more satisfactory invention than the automobile. It is consonant with the independence of man because it works under his own power entirely. There is no combustion of some petroleum product..to set the pedals going. Purely mechanical instruments like watches and bicycles are to be preferred to engines that depend on the purchase of power from foreign sources....The price of power is enslavement.

My idea of splashing out would be buying a new spanner. I've got about 300 - you can't have too many in my opinion.

Power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. And it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.

Russia's leaders, rich with oil wealth and corrupt with power, have rejected democratic ideals and the obligations of a responsible power.

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.

No matter how much lip service those committed to power (psychopaths) may pay to the principle of equality (empaths), they can never approach their fellow human beings on an equal footing; their relationships with others are defined solely in terms of power and weakness. Therefore, they must accumulate as much power as possible, with the aim of becoming invulnerable and proving this invulnerability.

I said, 'I'm a rock star. I can't preach in nobody's church. Are you crazy?' Let alone buy one. Oh, I wound up buying one.

I'd much rather have the consumer buy a Wii, some accessories, and a ton of games, vs. buying any of my competitor's products.

Hi, this is Ganymede, cup-bearer to Zeus, and when I'm out buying wine for the Lord of the Skies, I always buckle up!

Great Power, capable of everything and only temporarily handicapped by economic difficulties. We are not a great power and never will be again. We are a great nation, but if we continue to behave like a Great Power we shall soon cease to be a great nation. Let us take warning from the fate of the Great Powers of the past and not burst ourselves with pride .

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.'

Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity with freedom: traditional themes in philosophy, which a political history of truth would have to overturn by showing that truth is not by nature free--nor error servile--but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. The confession is an example of this.

I have been blessed with a family, mother especially, who started buying me fancy shoes from the time I took baby steps.

The media, when it's functioning properly, protects the public against marketers and their ceaseless attempts to trick people into buying things.

Actors are sellers, and I figured out a long time ago that if you wanted to work a lot, you had to be on the buying side.

If you first gain power to check your words, you will then begin to have power to check your judgment, and at length actually gain power to check your thoughts and reflections.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

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

The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.

I'm a professional with very little time on my hands. I've got better things to be doing than buying a pint of milk.

The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It is through the power of meditation all scientific facts are discovered today. They study the subject and forget everything, their own identity and everything, and then the great fact comes like a flash.