Seller Quotations

The buyer is entitled to a bargain. The seller is entitled to a profit. So there is a fine margin in between where the price is right. I have found this to be true to this day whether dealing in paper hats, winter underwear or hotels.

We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.

I treat my writing like a day job, like my main job, even if for many years I was doing other jobs to pay the bills. I worked as a copy editor. I was a medical guinea pig. I was an eBay power seller of ladies' handbags. I was an assistant to a bookie at the horse races. I bartended. I did anything I could to make ends meet.

Outside came in '60. The Edge in '61. All three made Gold, but the biggest seller was Inside.

Rather than empowering all, consumer and shareholder activism gives greatest voice to those with the most money in their pockets, those who can switch from seller to seller with relative ease. Consumer and shareholder activism is a form of protest that favours the middle classes, an outpouring of the dissatisfaction of the bourgeoisie.

The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.

Bigger spreads mean bigger gaps between what buyers pay and sellers receive. For example, a spread of 10 cents a share means that the buyer pays $100 more for 1,000 shares than the seller receives.

With no iPod Mini to dilute its impact, Apple's new Nano is poised to become the company's next best seller -- and rivals' biggest headache, ... Steve Jobs's Tiny but Sure Bet.

What we can do is make it against policy for a seller to encourage certain types of unsafe payments by putting them in their listing pages. Regarding cash, we allow sellers to say they accept COD and cash for in-person transactions , but not via mail.

This problem has spread from Southern California to Northern California and it's a profit-driven practice and it's a disturbing practice. Your children bond with the puppy. You paid $1,000 and you have no seller to go back to and that puppy's dead in 24 hours.

Seller success is going to, in turn, drive seller volume. That will, in turn, help the vibrancy of the marketplace and eBay's financials.

Seller concessions have not been common in the last five years. Sellers haven't had to offer them. But as we become more balanced, especially in areas of high inventory, that's where you'll see the use of concessions become a bit more common.

Simplicity, that is what we offer. We are experts at seller financing through lease options. We put our expertise to work for the client by procuring the property and the tenant for their property. We then assist the client in the management of the property.

Of course I want to be a best seller because I'm in the business and I want to be read, but there is no money in the world that can compensate for writing badly.

I would definitely expect more of it. Buyers may not pay for it. The seller or builder may pay for it to get a house sold.

If they sell five or more they get 25 percent of the money. The highest ad seller gets 40 percent of the money.

Given that buying a home is probably the largest purchase most people in this country make, decision support is important to the seller and the buyer.

If the typical seller got 102 percent of what he asked a month ago -- but now gets just 88 percent -- you know that prices are softening.

If we all have to buy a new device for the home that's a combination of a TV and PC, Sears is the largest seller of home appliances today in America. Whatever that appliance is, it's going to require installation, which would leverage their home services business.

If the garage is full of stuff, the seller is saying there's no storage in this house.

Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list.

What is behind everything that Luxottica has done worldwide is, they get so powerful they can fry the suppliers' brains out. If you're an independent seller of eyewear, you have a problem. You have to live on service and relationships and fashion and all of that, but it's very difficult to compete with somebody who is buying the same product for less.

We submit these pre-approval documents along with the offer. We want the seller to think the buyer walks on water. The seller knows that, 30 days down the road, the buyer won't back out because he can't qualify for the loan.

The only thing that breaks a standoff is (when) a seller who really needs the money realizes that nothing is happening and lowers his price. That will attract buyers.

It is not good for a buyer or a seller because it clutters the marketplace. Some amount of pricing ensures a higher quality supply.

It is not good for a buyer or a seller because it clutters the marketplace,

It enables the seller of the stock -- that is, management -- to price the issue right. It also enables management to pick the right investor.

We couldn't find a willing seller around the existing substation.

Typically you'll get an all new kitchen with cherry cabinets and granite counter-tops. Stainless steel appliances are a big seller right now.

We are quite accustomed to pretty modest growth in trade book sales. It's not growing fast in Spain, in France and the U.K. The way we've constructed our business in most countries is to have a very balanced operation. So if in one year trade is not good in France, you're going to have a best seller in the U.K.

to work on the seller platform, making it easier for sellers to sell.

With a leveraged buyout, someone will borrow 70 to 80 percent of the purchase price and laden the company with debt. The astute seller has to decide in advance whether to engage in a deal like that.

We will know a lot about the seller and the buyer, like their location, and we know by keywords what item they are interested in.

Fair market value, by definition, is the price at which a willing seller will sell and a willing buyer will buy.

What's happening with rates is hurting the seller worse than it is the buyer, and home prices will flatten out if not go a little lower.

Every seller has an affirmative duty to disclose material defects.

and we are a leading seller of servers, storage systems and other technology products and services.

I started a deli when I was 19 years old. Kevin O's. The sandwiches at Kevin O's were a little like Subway before Subway - fresh baked bread. My best seller was turkey with cream cheese and artichoke hearts. I just made it up.

is it any different to loaning a book to someone? There was a book in the US ( Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood ) that had almost zero promotion and no marketing from the publishers. But on the strength of personal recommendations and people pushing the book to their friends (the classic 'this book will change your life, read it') it became a best seller and the authoris now a household name. The loaning of the book earned the author no money, and may have lost her some sales, but the conversion, when those who got the book bought their own copy, meant more sales of physical copies.

I've never met a seller who wasn't emotionally attached to their house. It's where they lived, where their children grew up.

The seller said that you can be pretty sure that the property was a very prosperous farm to have such a great barn there. The fact that the posts are oak and the rest is white pine is also very unusual and points to a wealthy landowner.

The seller can try to negotiate with his or her agent for a lower commission if you don't have an agent. But they aren't obligated.

specifically provided that taxes for 2003, 2004 and 2005 were to be paid for by the seller (Citibank) subject to proration of the 2005 taxes between the seller and purchaser (the Nayaks) as of date of closing.

Any rational seller would have to feel the amount they got off market was at or more than they could have got on the market, ... So if this seller was willing to sell the property not going through the market system, then must the seller feel the price met - if not exceeded - what they could have gotten on the market?

A seller with lawfully acquired market power including market power arising from an act of God can charge any price the market will bear, so long as this seller does not join with others to set prices or restrict supply.

It is really interesting to note that Continental senior management has been a very sizable and active seller of Continental stock in the past month and these are not dumb people, and it is very atypical to sell in anticipation of an outright acquisition.

It's still the No. 1 seller on college campuses, maybe in the Top 10 in the newsstands, ... Two million copies at the stands alone, another million in subscriptions, a total of 77 million copies worldwide in all our 55 international editions.

It's not comparable to a seller on the high street where the customer has a choice of supply. It's a company with a dominant market position. The commission has found Microsoft to be abusing that dominant market position by failing to make its technical information available.

In a recent decision of the Supreme Court, not made, however, by the full court, and concurred in by only four justices, it was held that the seller of a patented mimeograph could bind the purchaser to use only his ink in the machine, though the ink was not patented.

If you have this many bidders, the seller has a picnic. He'll play one off the other.

In one instance, a seller used a picture from Mote Marine Lab's Web site the same site that talks about how they are an endangered species.

In every other generation, the first guy to 10 million consoles was the number one seller in the generation.

But in the cases where people were downloading four or five or six songs from one work, 10 times out of 10 that album became a big seller at traditional retail. People still sometimes see the CD as a good investment.

You could end up with a broker who doesn't have your best interest at heart or who misrepresented themselves. Their site may seem warm and fuzzy but they may be representing the seller and feeding you selective information.

The Lucky Craft Pointer 100 has certainly been the big seller with my customers.

This is my 25th book over 28 years, and to still be able to write a book and be a best seller again is remarkable. I'm impressed, myself, and very grateful.

A huge amount of prospective buyers never ask why a seller is selling, but it immediately determines their level of motivation. You can get a real deal from a person who needs to move to another part of the country pending a new job, for example. Because they have an agenda of their own, a seller in need is a friend indeed.

The DTP is the latest privileges that the DCCI offers to its members as it opens for them a gate into the world to help develop their businesses through obtaining some trade and investment opportunities all over the world. The DTP also helps introduce the buyer to the seller and the businessmen to their counterparts in other countries.

An asking price has no bearing on fair market value. Fair market value, by definition, is the price at which a willing seller will sell and a willing buyer will buy.