Quotes with bought

  • I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.
  • William Andrews Clark was caught in a bribery scandal during a campaign for the U.S. Senate - he was said to describe the Montana legislators this way: 'I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.'
  • Any investment bought via credit always runs the risk of margin calls and, eventually, liquidation.
  • My father earned every penny he had, and I would have loved to have bought him a Rolls-Royce because his whole life was cars. Sadly, he didn't live to see the day when I could have done that for him, which still hurts.
  • The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.
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  • Jiddu Krishnamurti Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.
    Jiddu Krishnamurti
    Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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  • Douglas Adams To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Joseph Addison A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Caroll Spinney When I was eight, I bought my first puppet. It was a monkey, and I paid five cents for it. I collected some scrap wood and built myself a puppet theatre. I made 32 cents with my first show, which I thought was pretty good, and that's when I knew I would be a puppeteer when I grew up.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • Bryan Burrough All the way back in 1999, when I first stumbled upon the idea of a project tracking John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson and all the major Depression-era bank robbers, I thought the subject was too big to be a single book. Instead, with a friend's help, I pitched the idea as a miniseries to HBO. To my amazement, they bought it.
    Bryan Burrough
    American author and correspondent (1961 - )
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling All we have of freedom - all we use or know - this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Simon Cameron An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
    Simon Cameron
    American politician (1799 - 1889)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Any investment bought via credit always runs the risk of margin calls and, eventually, liquidation.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Barry Ritholtz Any time you speak to people about their posture, you learn about their most recent investment activity. When someone just bought stocks, they tend to be bullish; someone who just sold is bearish.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Carlos Ghosn At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • A. E. van Vogt Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Don't tell me peace has broken out, when I've just bought some new supplies.
    Mother Courage sc. 8
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Every day, to earn my daily bread
    I go to the market where lies are bought
    Hopefully
    I take up my place among the sellers.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Hollywood (1942)
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Carlos Slim First I opened a check account. I looked at the - I looked that there was nothing of yield. So I bought some bonds. It was a bond. When I bought this bond, it was duplicated in 10 years. I think it was 10 percent.
    Carlos Slim
    Mexican business magnate, investor and philanthropist (1940 - )
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  • William Cowper Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Arthur Hugh Clough Grace is given of god, but knowledge is bought in the market.
    Arthur Hugh Clough
    English poet (1819 - 1861)
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  • Edward F. Halifax Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Edward F. Halifax I am of an Opinion, in which I am every Day more confirmed by Observation, that Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with Men, or else all the Obligations in the World will not create it. An outward Show may be made to satisfy Decency, and to prevent Reproach; but a real Sense of a kind thing is a Gift of Nature, and never was, nor can be acquired.
    Works (1912)
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure.
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