I end up not buying a lot of things, because I find them ridiculous.
Escape is a consumer goods like another
I have tons of sunglasses. My husband won't let me buy another pair because I lose them all the time.
Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.
I look about my house and see there are lots of lovely things in it, but I constantly buy more.
People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
I'm not a big music fan. Well, I am a big fan, but I'm not the type of person who buys stuff.
There’s this idea that somehow you’ve got to keep changing things, and as often as possible. Maybe if people just decided not to buy anything for a while, they’d get a chance to think about what they wanted; what they really liked.
It's still so rare for anyone to be personally acknowledged by a brand that the impact of such a simple, polite gesture on a customer's buying habits could be huge.
You shouldn't take a customer who's buying an album, who's happy buying an album, and try to tell them that what they're doing is wrong.
I usually go into a store with a mission. My idea of a fun thing to do would not be to go to a mall and shopping.
I like to buy things I can understand. I do a lot of research on things.
We tend to buy things - a lot of things - where we don't know exactly what will happen, but the outcome will be decent.
I'm an incompetent consumer. I have two settings: Buy and Don't Buy.
Psychographics speaks more to an attitude, a lifestyle.
Everywhere I go I buy new music shirts.
People say they'll pay more for something made in the U.S., but they won't actually do it.
Everything that works in sales has been done already. Just keep track of the crap that you buy, or the awesome stuff that you buy, and decide what was the trigger, and then just sell to people like you. It's really that easy - and that's what I do.
It takes me a long time to make a big purchase.
Sometimes it feels like it hurts when you make a big purchase, so I really believe that the more expensive things should be gems that you keep in your closet, not trends.
A lot of TV people buy more than one of an item, in case they spot or stain it, but I don't like buying duplicates - it's wasteful.
I'm not an impulse shopper. I will wait three days after I see something. Am I still thinking about it? Then I'll get it.
Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.
I buy DVDs almost every week. I'm more of a film buff, so I usually buy more DVDs than CDs, but if I like someone's album, I will buy the CD of it.
I've never bought a boxed set DVD or anything like that.
