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Jai Ganesh

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Buy Quotes - IV

Buy Quotes - IV

1. I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures. - David Rockefeller

2. I marketed pens - on the phone. But the beauty of the gig was that you had to call these strangers and say, 'Hi, how ya doing?' You made up a name, like, 'Hey, it's Edward Quartermaine from California. You're eligible to receive this grandfather clock or a trip to Tahiti.' You promise them all these things if they buy a gross of pens. - Johnny Depp

3. What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form. - David Ogilvy

4. The problem with car dealerships is you've already decided what you want to buy before you even go there, and you're really just going there to talk through some annoying negotiation. - Elon Musk

5. We have the best government that money can buy. - Mark Twain

6. You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day. - Jeff Bezos

7. I'm a hopeless romantic, and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going well, I'll buy the flowers, remember the dates of things, plan fun nights out. - Jennifer Love Hewitt

8. I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. - Warren Buffett

9. Money cannot buy the self-actualization of one's feelings. - P. T. Usha

10. Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children. - Steve Wozniak

11. If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive. - Elon Musk

12. I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. - Bruce Springsteen.

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