“buying books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.”

“… that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.
(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)”

“For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.”

“I wish it were as easy to buy time as it is to buy good books.”

“It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on.”

“I wish people who sell things would stop trying to guess how many of something we want to buy. I want to buy things one at a time.”

“We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.”

“A firm may be defined as an institution which buys things, transforms them in some way, and then sells them with the purpose of making a profit. The things a firm buys we shall call "inputs." The things it sells we shall call "outputs." The process whereby the things it buys are transformed into the things it sells we shall call the "process of production." In any process of buying to sell again a process of production is always involved…
A business, therefore, is a process whereby certain inputs, valued in dollars in some way, are transformed into outputs, also valued in dollars in some way.”

“Men are not accustomed to buy books unless they want them.”

“Werner, nobody will read this book if I don't write bad stuff about you. If I wrote that we get along well together, nobody would buy it. The scum only wants to hear about the dirt, all the time.”