Bargain Hunting Quotes

A price drop in a good stock is only a tragedy if you sell at that price and never buy more. To me, a price drop is an opportunity to load up on bargains from among your worst performers and your laggards that show promise. If you can't convince yourself "When I'm down 25 percent, I'm a buyer" and banish forever the fatal thought "When I'm down 25 percent, I'm a seller," then you'll never make a decent profit in stocks.

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.

One of the Internet's highest-profile companies, Priceline once dreamed of transforming the way consumer goods are bought and sold by offering customers the chance to 'name your own price' for a variety of products, including airline tickets.

I've been going to Bicester Village since I was young. My mum and dad really loved that place, and I always used to stock up on clothes. I love the fact that it supports great British designers.

Buy cheap and sell dear.

I spend far too much time on eBay buying lamps and upholstery remnants.

I go to Costco every weekend. It's my favorite part of the week.

Flea markets tend to be overwhelming. A lot of times, when I go with a first-time shopper, they don't buy anything. The rooms in my new book involved real people with real design dilemmas. They were paralyzed to make a decision.

Customers are extremely savvy. They don't want to pay more.

Despite all the Internet has done to make prices transparent and bibliographic information universal, you can still find - at book sales and thrift shops, auctions and even fancy dealers - unrecognized or underpriced rarities. Getting something valuable for cheap is the basic, greedy thrill of book collecting.

You re-watch 'Napoleon Dynamite', and there's a lot of thrift shopping that goes on in that movie; there's a lot of funny stuff. It's definitely amusing, and paying 99 cents for a samurai sword is amazing.

I like finding things in locations where I've worked and things from down South and things from flea markets or even the sidewalks.

There's different shopping in Paris than there is at a bazaar in Istanbul, but they're all wonderful.

Dealing with uncertainty is always a key challenge for investors. But dealing with uncertainty doesn't mean avoiding it - on the contrary, it is often fuzziness about a company's future that creates the type of opportunity bargain-hunting investors cherish.

Most things that people want already exist, and with Amazon or eBay, there is always someone who is willing to undercut your price.

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.

I just discovered the Santa Monica flea market, every Sunday. I go weekly. There's a lot of interesting things there.

I love to shop. Clothes, electronics, and I love jewelry, especially yellow gold.

My new obsession is 'Storage Wars.' I don't know how such a simple show concept can be so addicting, but I can sit and watch marathons of it.

As much as I love to shop online, I also love walking the streets on a beautiful day and seeing what finds I can discover in a small shop or vintage store.

I shopped at T.J. Maxx myself when I was a kid.

During inflation, Goodwill is the gift that keeps on giving.

I love to sit and watch a bit of 'Cash in the Attic.'

You must try going out into the market place, where the mass of people spend their time

I take Him shopping with me. I say, OK, Jesus, help me find a bargain.