Word: buys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Engineers are an improved team compared to previous M. I. T. squads and should provide adequate competition, especially in the foil. "They say their foils are pretty good, but I don't buy that," Marion said. "However, they have several experienced men and eventually could wind up better than us this season." he added...
Paradoxically, many U.S. consumers are discontented even while they are the envy of contemporary civilization ?the best-fed, best-clothed, most pampered people in history. Most companies have a self-interest in promoting product safety and performance, if only to induce customers to buy and buy again. Since the large majority of consumers do exactly that, businessmen understandably believe that they are producing the kind of merchandise that the nation wants. The average buyer probably gets more value for $1,000 spent in a current mail-order-house catalogue than in an edition of 50 years...
...There's nothing good in the world but the rich will buy...
...encyclopedias are intellectual treasure troves. Today one can buy second hand an 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, published in 1910, for $30-50. Written by a generation of gentlemen scholars that possessed a literary taste we have lost, it presents all of science, medicine, history, geography, and the disciplines of the day in 40 million words. Imagine that in 2030, it will be possible to read an encyclopedia of 1970 with as much critical detachment as we today can bring to bear on one of 1910 ! Imagine that we could devise an education today that could cultivate now such...
...that anybody who can read can sell. Success is founded on making plenty of presentations; salesmen make as many as a dozen brief calls for each prospect who is willing to listen to a presentation. But Penn Life has calculated that one out of three who listen will buy...