Quotes about Purchase

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin

A great aspect of America is the ability of the less fortunate to purchase and own property.

Mychal Massie

We're seeing people move up within the Austin market. Maybe two years ago, they were purchasing a $150,000 home, and now they are looking to purchase a $200,000 home.

Steve Still

The decision on 'Deal or No deal' is immediate and involves high stakes but it's simple compared with the decision to purchase life insurance. For that, people need information and expert advice to make a choice that will affect their family's well-being for years to come. After all, life is not a game show.

Bob Kerzner

The city is giving us what amounts to $60,000 for acquisition and repairs (per house). So if it costs us $100,000 and we borrow $40,000 for purchase and repairs, then we sell it at fair market value for $85,000. We pay that $40,000 back and we've got another $45,000 and plow it back into another house.

Matt Strauss

We want to raise a minimum of $600 to help purchase books.

Miguel Drew

The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. This means... that he should be able to justify every purchase he makes and each price he pays by impersonal, objective reasoning that satisfies him that he is getting more than his money's worth for his purchase.

Benjamin Graham

They're going to continue to watch them and it may be something we purchase in the future.

Brad Pacheco

John Roberts' purchase is the third-largest voluntary green power purchase in the state of Minnesota. The Green Power Partnership applauds their leadership and hopes that other businesses will follow their example.

Blaine Collison

There are alcoholic beverages at different levels of price, and when you implement taxation, what happens is that the individuals who are able to purchase the alcoholic beverages that were more expensive just switch to less expensive ones.

Raul Caetano

The more hours they purchase, the cheaper it is. A three-hour block is $21, and a five-hour block is $30. We also offer a membership plan that provides discounted rates to our regular gamers.

Dwight Hetzell

Early exercise of our purchase option represents yet another milestone in our determined effort to begin unlocking the value of Minnesota's well-known base and precious metals deposits along the eastern Iron Range.

William Murray

That should direct you toward what type of standards you should set up for your next bull purchase.

Daryl Strohbehn

So even though in absolute size of purchase China is really only one-third that of the U.S., when it comes to incremental growth, China is a big player.

Gordon Kwan

There was no place to put stuff away. Someone made a bulk purchase, and it added to the stuff piled on kitchen countertops. There were no cars in the garages, because people were using their garages for storage.

Boyce Thompson

I didn't have much pocket money as a kid, and what little I did have was usually used to purchase super unhealthy things.

Dave Berg

For a private buyer, it is unfathomable to purchase a company under these conditions.

Peter Westin

We have made an exception, that in case of an emergency, the mayor may sign off on the purchase order.

Katina Whitledge

We can take that initial investment in consumer awareness and start to move these folks down the spectrum toward consideration and purchase.

Mike Rosen

People are getting a little more careful when they purchase. Investors are taking longer to sell. We're having more price reductions.

Connie Johnson

We believe that many of our customers will purchase gift cards not just for others, but for their own transactions as well, as an alternative to using cash or credit. It will be a great addition to our cafes nationwide.

Cindy Thompson

Mattresses can be confusing to purchase. We talked to the people at these places and I was impressed with the knowledge the manager had.

Russ Hale

If this purchase helps UPS to continue to successfully compete in the global marketplace in the long run, it will increase our members' job security.

Ken Hall

For Active Explorers, 52% say internet advertising and 49% say email advertising are the most influential media for making a purchase of a car, whereas Independents say that word of mouth, reading an article about the product or TV are the most influential. Active Explorers also use media in different day parts and engage in simultaneous media use differently than Independents.

Joe Pilotta

One of the most common forms of 'financial assistance' is the Hire Purchase (HP) agreement.

Jono Soames

Whereas today the cost to purchase commercial-grade carbon fiber is between $8 and $10 per pound, the goal is to reduce that figure to between $3 and $5 per pound.

Bob Norris

The financial crisis in Asia continues to make it difficult for our customers to obtain credit to purchase bowling equipment in China.

Peter Larson

Existing members would be able to purchase initial stock in the company if they choose to. This would be the first time that any members have had the opportunity to have financial ownership in the company.

Mark Shobe

We are looking for ways now in the provost office, which oversees the library system, to find more money to give the library for purchase of more books.

Curt Guenther

It will probably be one of the last opportunities the district will have to purchase a large tract of land in an environmentally sensitive area.

Hector Herrera

The billboard is a major purchase for the coalition. We hope it will really bring attention to the issue.

Kaye Thompson

The plan is to purchase the land and use the passive water as part of a recreation area.

Mayor Jerre Van Hoose

As soon as we made the purchase, we actively began seeking tenants.

Diane Moore

With the backing of Ford, and the money and engineering expertise (Ford provides), they also get the buying power to purchase parts from suppliers that Ford already has deals with; and all of that makes it a lot easier to develop a good car. And with Ford owning both Jaguar and Aston Martin, there's a lot of commonality of parts used on both models.

David Champion

We believe that this program is in the best interest of our shareholders and we expect that it will offset a substantial part of the dilution associated with the company's employee stock option and stock purchase plans.

Sean Lance

Jacob's case was more a product of being a member of our culture. Jacob lives in America. He goes to public school where there's junk food available to purchase because of fundraisers.

Lauren Brightwell

In a customer centric media plan, the influence of media to make a purchase becomes a key component to determining the allocations to the various options, as marketers refine their focus on consumers, media planning will require more insights on how consumers behave and less on gross audience estimates.

Joe Pilotta

Shower attention on a customer who owns a car with eighty thousand miles on it because he or she is much closer to a new car purchase.

Jeff Sacks

The response was amazing. Surprisingly, the media picked it up and ran with it. We were getting countless numbers of phone calls from people who wanted to know where they could purchase it.

Puggy Blackmon

Most men are pretty comfortable spending for this kind of purchase.

Darrin Cody

My mom always said she wanted to get through life without ever learning how to use a computer. But pretty soon, she was looking over my shoulder, and by the time we made the purchase, she was really into it. She was like a fish in water.

Frances Krug

If you have two [integrators] working at $150 an hour for six months, you're talking about a minimum of $350,000 just for the implementation. There have been very few companies who have been able to purchase and implement an EIM solution for under $1 million.

Bob Conlin

It means you don't have to hand off each purchase and pray that some other guy is going to deliver it properly.

Ken Cassar

We already distribute in Colorado County. But they wanted to give us money to expand our services in Colorado County and I guess really to supplement our existing services. The grant also includes the purchase of a new pickup and trailer.

Cindy Zamora

We have no plan to phase out all sales of VCR machines at this time, ... However, many customers are opting to purchase our dual machines (which retail for about $150) that play both DVD and VHS formats.

Brian Lucas

It's no secret we'd like to expand in the top 20 markets if this is approved and the opportunities are available to us. But we're at 39 percent already (due to the CBS parent Viacom Inc.'s purchase of UPN). Going to 45 percent is not a tremendous change.

Dana Mcclintock

We purchase many of the food items, personal products, fresh frozen meat, orange juice, etc., that we offer to our clients. We depend on your generosity to be able to keep the pantry open to help our neighbors and friends and all those in need.

Lois Jackson

The purchase continues to be delayed pending the outcome of the investigations.

Richard Beck

We're not recommending the purchase of it, but I do think the worse is probably behind it. I do think there is probably a bounce due in the stock.

Jim Waggoner

Drama is 20 to 25 times more costly to make locally than to purchase internationally. We therefore need to be more critical in the development phase as we can't afford to 'dump' bad material that easily.

Carl Fischer

We strongly encourage people to purchase because 50 percent goes to the artist ... and the other 50 percent goes to put sculptures in the Village.

Dennis Paul Batt

The commonsense approach is probably the best approach. An item that normally costs a $100 that can be bought for $2, I think there is something wrong with that kind of purchase.

Andy Yu

There is a strong push among immigrants to purchase homes. About a decade ago, this country had a surge in immigrants who have only recently begun the home buying process.

Celia Chen

It's a similar block of land like what you have here with some private houses on it, and that was a stumbling block for him. We would probably need to get control of the houses [in order for a deal with Sharma to take place]. We would probably need to purchase the houses.

Glenn Patton

Baby boomers are really fueling the purchase of second homes.

David Hehman

[The shareholders will profit from Whirlpool's purchase, but] the people who built this company ... don't get anything out of this, ... That's not right.

Tom Vilsack

Success to Best Buy is not measured by revenue. It's measured by how many consumers have experiences that are favorable, and that they are able to make a purchase on the telephone, Internet or catalog.

John Walden

It's been a really good relationship that's allowed us for the first time to purchase cattle in the state.

Dennis Wiese

HTC makes devices for others who put their brands on them. By having someone else's brand on it, you have to purchase that.

John Kampfe

There's an ice cream place in Vancouver that has 200 flavors, if you can believe that. But the people who go there end up less satisfied with their purchase than the people who buy their ice cream at a place with only 20 flavors. Yet people are lined up out the door at the place with 200 flavors because it seems like you're more likely to get exactly what you want.

Barry Schwartz

Basically the plan is to purchase land for resource protection, but also make it available for public recreation.

Cynthia Johnson

We're more than willing if the city wants to purchase the property.

David Dodson

We found historic letters showing that Lord Stanley directed his aid-de-camp to travel to England to purchase the Cup. That was an interesting historical find.

Tim Gilbert

You get the tax credit based on the purchase price of the product and the installation and it's up to 10 percent of that cost to a max of $500 will be returned to you by Uncle Sam.

Kateri Callahan

The acquisition of True Temper broadens our lawn and garden product line with outstanding, highly respected brands, ... The purchase also expands USI Hardware and Tool's customer base and provides additional capacity for future growth.

David Clarke

We effectively have removed, through your purchase of other products, your cost of entry into a new technology. At the end of the day, we've allowed you to put on a set of training wheels.

Bill Botti

As with all merchandise decisions that we make, our decision to remove guns from Wal-Mart locations is simply based on the lack of customer purchase history of firearms in a given community.

Jolanda Stewart

Before, purchase orders would be initiated, processed and paid through the individual plants. Each plant used its own coding approach, product number system and so on, and that information would sit there in a silo.

Bo Foster

We have a building on the site. We'd sure like to purchase it.

Marlen Winter

I was going to be a media director for a school system and had job offers in California and Chicago. When George (St. John) was nearing retirement age, he made me an offer to purchase the business.

Ronald Dawson

There is nobody that has an option to purchase. There is nobody that even has a signed letter of intent. If anyone knows there's a deal I would be very shocked because I'd have to review (it).

Frank Schreck

We asked the governor to veto the bill. It is bad public health policy to provide a tax break to businesses that purchase, sell and market a product that is harmful to children's health.

Jon Gould

We see other people having things we want to have. It's just too hard for a lot of people to put off making that purchase.

Andy Whitaker

As individuals, they can make the decision to self-insure, but as an advisor, it is unthinkable. They should purchase health insurance before they do anything else.

Steve Carter

There's no longer a barrier for counties to purchase electronic voting systems even if they have not had a referendum.

Allison Hrestak

No IT manager has ever lost their job from buying an HP printer, ... No matter how many Dell computers a company may have, people who purchase IT equipment look at HP as a long-standing leader in the printing business. It's a hard thing for Dell to crack, but they're still trying.

Brian Hamilton

If prices continue to put pressure on that, we are either going to have to raise our minimum-delivery purchase or we are going to have to put on a fuel surcharge. You can't afford to watch your profit erode every time an oil company has a price increase.

Jim Henderson

They have limited information on modern technology. And the new airplanes and ships we purchase are not working very well.

Tim Ting

Large industrial buyers are no different than consumers. Consumers will say they are into [environmentally-safe] goods, but when they make a purchase they go back to price and functionality. ... Buyers have to be convinced that the product is fully equivalent and maybe even superior to its [petroleum-based] counterpart.

Alfred Marcus

We're in the same circumstance as customers where we purchase the natural gas on the commodity market and then supply that to customers at the same cost that MidAmerican purchases where there is no markup.

Allan Urlis

The opportunities for better economic fortunes lie elsewhere. Basically, this area has a lack of jobs that will pay enough for the young people in our area to support families and purchase homes.

Mark Kelly

The fact they've turned a low margin operation into a good margin operation demonstrates to me that there is expertise there and gives me some confidence in their New Zealand purchase.

Craig Shepherd

We do expect this technology transfer to take place. But if it does not take place we will not be able to purchase these aircraft.

Lord Drayson

In addition to that, if a person is renting in Marion, they can get an additional $10,000 from this other grant to add to that $15,000 for a total of $25,000 toward their home purchase. We're real excited about that.

Norman Coleman

We recommend that a moratorium on the purchase and sale of South African land to non-citizens be imposed with immediate effect, as an interim measure until appropriate legislation has been promulgated.

Joe Matthews

Trading expertise is something that you can purchase on the marketplace.

Brad Hintz

The ability to purchase non-stacked coverage will result in lower premiums for consumers. This is about giving consumers more choices and more control regarding the level of coverage they purchase and the amount they pay.

William Stander

My office is concerned that many of the employees were, in effect, coerced into the purchase of the stock. They were forced to purchase stock to protect their jobs.

William Galvin

They actually support the companies that invest in stock car racing. There is that causal connection between purchase patterns and companies that invest in the sport.

Andrew Giangola

They did very well for a $200,000 purchase. It's as good as you can buy for that amount of money. All the components are top-notch.

Tom York

Typically, consumers are waiting for all kinds of deals before they go out and purchase an automobile. They didn't get them in July, so perhaps they're going to wait until maybe August.

Brian Fabbri

Had the scheme been sold to an insurer, Marconi shareholders would have got nothing, rather than half the purchase price.

Stephen Yeo

There's the purchase of the ticket. There are the seats on the airplane. I think those are the two most valuable things that airlines offer to customers.

Jim Cron

We can start to purchase land from the owners that are affected. Now that we don't have a money restraint or funding restraint we can go as fast as we physically can.

Theresa Casav

The nice thing about Sun workstations is that the quality we build in extends the longevity of their purchase. We want people to get as much value out of our equipment as they can.

Barbara Kay

Mr. Allen saved this franchise. I was on the team in 1996 when we had basically packed our bags and moved down to Anaheim [California]. He stepped in when approached by city officials to put a bid up to purchase the team and take us in a different direction. That's exactly what he has done.

Mack Strong

P.G. P.R.I.D.E. supports all of our classrooms in making available funds to purchase supplies and equipment on and above the learning opportunities which enrich and expand our students progress.

Patrick Perry

This will be the best all-around boxing card ever here in Los Angeles, ... The prices of the card are affordable. They appeal to the ordinary boxing fan here in Los Angeles. You will not see tickets for $1000. Fans who love boxing can purchase tickets as low as $25. Over half the tickets are $50 and less.

Bob Arum

We might use wireless alerts in the future, but we don't have any wireless devices and would need to purchase those.

Mel Reeves