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TO BUY. To purchase. Vide Sale.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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* A quarter after taking his first stake in Amazon, Buffett added to his position, and Ackman gave Buffett a vote of confidence by buying Berkshire shares.

Q2 13F Roundup: How Buffett, Einhorn, Ackman And Others Adjusted Their Portfolios

Lewis: Let's start with a fact: Nobody buys anything because of a sales process; they buy because of their own buying processes.

Understanding How Customers Buy...& Why They Don't: In a world of nearly infinite choices, companies need to shift their focus from how they sell to how customers buy

This is the most compelling reason why you should consider buying mutual funds-It takes away the complicated business of having to pick stocks to gain exposure to the stock market, which is one of the main reasons why people who want to invest in the stock market do not invest.

Gaining exposure to the stock market through mutual funds

Earlier prevalence figures for compulsive buying, based on interviews with small groups of consumers, ranged from 2 percent to 16 percent.

Shop until you can't stop: compulsive buying affects both men and women

More established recyclers who are buying replacement equipment might want to be more conservative with that figure and look at 5-percent to 10-percent extra capacity, however.

Making the cut: recyclers and manufacturers offer buying tips for ferrous shears and balers

To avoid creating waste, the report recommends buying multipurpose ingredients as often as possible.

Worth every cent: there's more to being a smart consumer than simply slashing your budget

As an example, take a 35-year-old man, a nonsmoker in excellent health, buying a 30-year term policy worth $500,000.

Planning for trouble

Betsy Hewett and her husband, Terrill, are architects in their early 30s who left college with about $30,000 in debt--not student loans, but "just going to Macaroni Grill and buying supplies for school," she says, in her case using a credit card she doesn't even remember applying for.

Maxed out: the spiritual cost of personal debt

Some people made fortunes by buying stocks at one price and selling at a higher one.

Black Thursday: the great Wall Street crash of 1929

The following are some available tax strategies for buying and selling a business.

Buyers and sellers: tax strategies for buying and selling businesses

Examine the quarterly buying and selling trends as reported in its public filings to get a quick view of where it is invested, the size of the investments and the rate at which the investments turn over.

Ramping up communications to the buy side: given the reconfigured research community, public company CFOs need to re-learn how to most effectively communicate with institutional investors. An investor-relations expert provides some clues

There is a range of sophistication levels among chief executives when it comes to buying a plane, says David Almy, a vice president of the National Business Aviation Association.