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.
You see politicians talking about negative gearing or tax on your second home – most people I knew growing up couldn’t afford the rent, let alone buying a house, or a second house.
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.
In 2005, MTV Networks considered buying Facebook for seventy-five million dollars. Yahoo! and Microsoft soon offered much more. Zuckerberg turned them all down.
The media and marketing deluge has spawned a new type of Wall Street loser: the armchair momentum player. These are novice investors who engage in short-term stock buying and selling based on media reports or an expert’s enthusiasm.
When I was a kid, and the Hockey Night in Canada theme issued from our black-and-white Sylvania TV, I disappeared to the basement to listen to 45s and read the encyclopedias that my parents kept buying from travelling salesmen.
I don’t know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it’s in the movies doesn’t mean magazines are buying it.
I have been blessed with a family, mother especially, who started buying me fancy shoes from the time I took baby steps.
Everything changes all the time, and unfortunately, everyone who knows what you do by buying records only hears a small amount of what’s going on in your life.
I watched my parents go from having very basic jobs to educating themselves, to buying a house. They set a really good bar for what they wanted their kids to achieve.
I’m afraid of buying a house or anything, ’cause if there’s one paparazzi outside for one day, then they’ll never leave.
The thing about Paris, it’s a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you’re Baudelaire. But it’s not a city where you can work.
The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the importance of shopping and buying local.
A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit.
For instance, we’re always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from – with what? The very resources we need to keep there.
We discovered that there are actually fewer companies actually buying data.
Until Americans feel that their core asset – their homes – are stabilized, they are not going to have the animal spirits and they will continue to have less buying power.
We’ve learned that when a consumer moves from a relationship rooted in ‘me’ to one powered by ‘we,’ a new world of buying and advocacy opens up for a brand.
Haven’t read a book for years – keep buying them and never getting round to reading them – I never seem to have the time.
The original idea before Mint was a life and goal planning system I called Carpe Viva. The idea was that all of life’s goals, from buying a house, getting an MBA, or learning Spanish could be quantified in both time and money.
I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets.
I think you have to plan ahead. When I go to the market on a Saturday, and I’m buying for family and friends, I’m thinking about what I’m going to eat on the weekend but also about what I’m going to make for the following week.
People will buy a good electrical car instead of buying a fossil-fuel one, and you get a much better standard of car.
Buying art is not understanding art.
If people had good albums, they’d be buying albums. But people are buying singles because they only have good songs.
We’re constantly buying airplane tickets; we travel on the Concorde.
I take my kids to the farmer’s market – knowing I’m buying local and fresh makes the humiliation of the little choo-choo train ride worthwhile.
My parents came from little, so they made a choice to give a lot: buying turkeys for homeless shelters at Thanksgiving, delivering meals to people in hospices, giving spare change to those asking for it.
I never cared about buying things for myself, like clothes. And then all of a sudden I realized how great it is to be very precise about the shirts that I wear and all the things that are a part of my closet. So the ritual of fashion and shopping became very personal to me.
When we do an investment, we always ask, ‘Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can we have an impact?’ That’s a different style of investing than a passive investor in the stock market. To me, that’s how you’re taking the risk out of it. You know what your capability is and how you can enhance value.
When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There’s more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What’s their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?
I know exactly what I want to buy and I spend very little time, maybe 15 hours a year, buying stuff. I’ll go in and out of Dunhill in 45 minutes and pick out a few suits. Boom. And I’m gone. I get my shirts at Charvet. I go in there – woosh – and buy 12 shirts and some ties; once a year and that’s it.
Buying is a profound pleasure.
My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn’t like contemporary art, so he didn’t give her large sums to spend. So, she began buying prints and drawings. During my school days, I remember sitting in on many of the early meetings.
We have been sold a Muslim boogeyman. We are buying into it, and we are terrified, and that terror is causing people to lash out at comedians like myself or women wearing hijabs, or anyone who seems to defend equality for Muslims worldwide.
There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn’t stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.
I am at my impulsive best every time I am at airports. I end up buying a lot of stuff, and pamper myself from the duty-free stores.
As long as people are buying music, it’s good for everybody.
One day we will have more inflation, and our bonds will bleed like a pig. The only reason for buying long bonds is short-term or as a desperate haven for terrorized investors. But the potential to make longer-term real money is naught.
I love buying hair clips.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
I’ve set aside a nice chunk of my advertising revenue each month for giveaways, like a KitchenAid mixer. I like buying them for the audience, because without the audience I wouldn’t have the blog or the revenue in the first place.
Combining technology and fashion shouldn’t be about PR gimmicks – they should genuinely enhance the experience of buying, owning and experiencing a luxury product.
If I am out in the street or buying bread or taking a taxi, no one knows who I am.
Large-caps were safe in 1996, ’97, ’98. Everybody was buying index funds and Nifty Fifty funds. As long as money was pouring in, it was great.
Because of economics, you have to feed the demographics that are buying your product. So, as Asia becomes a much more economic influence on the products that are being made from America, I think people have to be sensitive.
There’s been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there’s a subway that runs through downtown.
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.
Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line. What’s so revolutionary? The Internet has mainly affected our leisure life.
There’s a difference between buying a few places yourself and getting into the property game.
When I started buying my mother all these homes, like a second home in Kentucky, where I moved most of my family, they began to rely on my wallet.
Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.
Our entire political system is financed by wealthy private interests buying politicians and making sure the rules are written in their favor.
Buying a banner, you have no control whether ten different people see your ad once, or one person sees it ten times.
If the parties would brand themselves the way Coke and Pepsi and other products do so that you knew what you were buying, it had quality control. I vote for the Republican. He or she will not raise my taxes. I’ll buy one. I’ll take that one home.
Valuations are actually quite simple to grasp. A company is only worth what two acquirers are willing to pay for it. Don’t you just need to find that one buyer? If there is only one potential company interested in buying your startup, chances are you won’t be hearing the word ‘billion’ in the offer.
