Top 186 Purchasing Quotes & Sayings

Requiring the Fed to focus on preserving the purchasing power of the dollar will create a solid foundation for economic growth.

We cannot pursue a classical and Christian education as a fad. We are not purchasing intellectual hula hoops for the kids.

Purchasing and downloading a book on to your e-reader won't necessarily protect it from disappearing.

Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.

It's not part of our culture to even think about outright purchasing a third-party developer.

Despite the Obama administration's proclaimed commitment to global Internet freedom, the executive branch is not transparent about the types and capabilities of surveillance technologies it is sourcing and purchasing - or about what other governments are purchasing the same technology.

Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise.

It is production that creates purchasing power, not the printing press!

Word of mouth is the primary factor behind 20 percent to 50 percent of all purchasing decisions.

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.

The cost to Tata of purchasing Land Rover and Jaguar may have been small, but its wider symbolic significance is enormous.

People want to connect with what they're purchasing.

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.

A stronger dollar increases U.S. dollar purchasing power.

Collectors are paying for our education by purchasing our art.

Other countries are open to purchasing foreign short films because they have a market for them.

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.

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.

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.

Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.

Israel gets more than half of all the military purchasing assistance that America gives to all the nations in the world.

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.

Straw purchasing is illegal.

The banker, therefore, is not so much primarily a middleman in the commodity "purchasing power" as a producer of this commodity. However, since all reserve funds and savings today usually flow to him, and the total demand for free purchasing power, whether existing or to be created, concentrates on him, he has either replaced private capitalists or become their agent; he has himself become the capitalist par excellence.

All's fair in love and purchasing.

The Central Bank is constantly purchasing, purchasing and selling and vice versa - this is their job.

A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms.

I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.

If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.

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.

Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned.

Attracting business to a city is of huge benefit for taxes, jobs, purchasing of homes and home goods.

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.

On Medicare, I would suggest ridding the system of fraud and bulk purchasing of prescription drugs, to begin with.

As a general rule, if you are prone to melodramatic meltdowns, please avoid purchasing a webcam for any reason.

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.

I'm happy that good works by young artists with limited chances will see the light of day by my purchasing them.

Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.

One must be aesthetically long-termist in selecting a man - it's like purchasing a farmhouse in the south of France. Sure, it's beautiful to look at, but will the roof stay on?

Always have a plan when you shop. Have your list ready so that you know who you're purchasing gifts for and an estimate on how much you're going to spend.

Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.

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.

Global interconnectedness has led to the emergence of a new political power, that of consumers and their associations. It is good for people to realize that purchasing is always a moral - and not simply economic - act.

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?

I would push purchasing power - you push out $1,000 of purchasing to those people, it's going to get - it's going to get spent. And it needs to be spent. They need it. And it should come, to some extent, from guys like me.

Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.

When consumers purchase a Toyota, they are not simply purchasing a car, truck or van. They are placing their trust in our company.

Increasing detection and enforcement at points of entry means hiring new Customs officers and purchasing more equipment to screen vehicles for contraband.

A lot of people made their first luxury fashion purchase, but at a discount. And that made it an easier purchasing decision.

Electronics companies are purchasing the minerals that come out of the Eastern Congo, and they are illicit; they're dirty.

We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.

Using a service such as Chegg.com, students can save on average more than $600 a year when they rent textbooks over purchasing them.

BJP is committed to transform the agriculture sector. We want to increase farmer income and the purchasing power of villages.

Purchasing a story in order to bury it is a practice that many in the tabloid industry call 'catch and kill.'

Single parents do not have the luxury of purchasing an abundance of healthy foods for their kids to try. I know this. As a single mom, I've been there.

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.

Men use care in purchasing a horse, and are neglectful in choosing friends.

Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound ... my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks

Our point of view is we will sell more if we help people make purchasing decisions.

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.