Purchasing Quotes

Mr. Ten Percent

The purchase of unnecessary military hardware is undoubtedly the most wasteful element in American government.

We know full well we cannot sell where we do not buy and we cannot sell successfully where we do not carry.

The officials responsible for acquisitions [at the Pentagon] are loathe to take risks, since they can be held personally accountable if something goes wrong.

You want it, you buy it, you forget it.

My mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying!

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

It gives a bigger bang for a buck.

We use more discriminating intelligence when we buy a used car than when we buy a religion. Buying a used car you at least look underneath the hood, hit the tires, maybe take it to a mechanic to check it out. But in buying a religion you're supposed to wear these narrow blinders, so that if anybody disagrees you can block it out. It's basically, check your brains at the door when you join a religion.

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?

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 is true that some people are interested in the buying part of things... They want to buy everything from the movie reviews to the media net to the opinions and so on.

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

I love going shopping.

Collectors are paying for our education by purchasing our art.

I'm always buying gadgets, especially at airports.

This is the truth: I'm into sales. I love deals. I'm definitely a sucker for steals.

It's better to buy one good pair of shoes than four cheap ones.

The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body.

If I go to the store, I'm not trying to slip in the middle of the aisle so I can talk about it onstage. I'm at the store because I need food or medicine.

Never buy anything with a handle on it. It means work.

Our clothing and our armor ought to be of such a kind that men of mature experience will not say that we have spent too much on them, nor younger men say we have spent too little.

We intend to redesign our entire purchasing system to include a general preference for recycled products.

Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth, it buys as long as it has the means to buy.