Selling quotes
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
-- Abu Bakr -
It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.
-- Akon -
Stubbornness destroys good advice.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
I tried to tell them about the dating process because I'm single now and how horrible it is and how many foolish experiences I had had dating. So I was really selling him hard, but the whole time he really wanted me!
-- Andie MacDowell -
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There is more to representing art than selling art. The life of the gallery is dependent on the renewal and refreshment of its artists and dealers. When that stops happening, it's the end.
-- Arne Glimcher -
I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.
-- Arne Glimcher -
American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
-- Barry Goldwater -
You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.
-- Benjamin Jowett -
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I made my money by selling too soon.
-- Bernard Baruch -
I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.
-- Bernard Ebbers -
We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness.
-- Bernard Loiseau -
‎"Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything -- including the Christian plan of salvation.
-- Billy Graham -
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Internalize the Golden Rule of sales that says: All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like and trust.
-- Bob Burg -
Telling is not selling. Only asking questions is selling.
-- Brian Tracy -
Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question.
-- Brian Tracy -
Combine the dual qualities of empathy and ambitionin every sales relationship.
-- Brian Tracy -
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Keep your sales pipeline full by prospecting continuosly.Always have more people to see than you have time to see them .
-- Brian Tracy -
For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
-- Callie Khouri -
Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.
-- Calvin Trillin -
If it were not for me, the Gracies would be selling Bananas in Largo do Machado!
-- Carlson Gracie -
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The big money is not in the buying and selling ... but in the waiting.
-- Charlie Munger -
Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.
-- Che Guevara -
I'm not ashamed of selling millions of records. I'm very fortunate to be in that position.
-- Chris Daughtry -
Life is pain...anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something
-- Christopher Paolini -
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I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Canvases between 8 centimetres and 1 metre are priced around 25,000 francs. In the past I used to sell them from between 50 to 100 francs at the most. I have to say... that I feel somewhat embarrassed at this admission.
-- Claude Monet -
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work.
-- Dale Carnegie -
True professional selling is simply sharing enthusiasm.
-- Dan Miller -
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One of the best predictors of ultimate success in either sales or non - sales selling isn't natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections.
-- Daniel H. Pink -
A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
-- Daniel J. Boorstin -
You sell more when you stop selling.
-- David Meerman Scott -
The temptation to entertain instead of selling is contagious.
-- David Ogilvy -
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Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.
-- Dennis Kucinich -
My work is my work and I will attempt to sell it for what it is.
-- Donald Lambert -
Education is the process of selling someone on books.
-- Douglas Wilson -
I'm selling evolution. You grow or you die.
-- Eddie Bravo -
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Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.
-- Edward Bellamy -
It's about listening first, then selling.
-- Erik Qualman -
Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.
-- Ernest Mandel -
If you don't believe in what you're selling, neither will your prospect.
-- Frank Bettger -
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We've become a nation of con men, living by selling double glazing to each other.
-- Fred Dibnah -
I don't understand why prostitution is illegal, Selling is legal, ***** is legal. So why isn't it legal to sell f***ing? Why should it be illegal to sell something that's legal to give away?
-- George Carlin -
Was I involved in selling drivers licenses to people illegally? Hell no I wasn't. Would I have tolerated it? Hell no.
-- George Ryan -
The worst financial transaction you will ever make is selling yourself short.
-- Greg Gilbert -
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Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.
-- Gus Van Sant -
Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make.
-- Guy Kawasaki -
Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days, which was the 1960s, the institutional salesman was making about $100,000 a year. I thought that was just an enormous amount of money.
-- Henry Kravis -
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I always thought we were selling dreams, not clothes
-- Irving Penn -
Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn
-- James Cash Penney -
Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople.
-- James Cash Penney -
And so it can be very much in the interest of bank A to sell-short bank B shares, or buy CDSes on bank B, because they have exposure to bank B. It's the responsible thing to do as a fiduciary, and yet if everyone does it at the same time, it's destabilizing because everyone is selling.
-- James Chanos -
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Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate.
-- James Hansen -
Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.
-- James Taylor -
Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time.
-- Janette Rallison -
Big food companies have their priorities, which include selling cheap, unhealthy foods at high profits.
-- Jared Polis -
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You don't get great at selling in a day. You get great at selling day by day.
-- Jeffrey Gitomer -
Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop.
-- Jeremy Robinson -
"If I buy stocks on Smith's tip I must sell those same stocks on Smith's tip. I am depending on him. Suppose Smith is away on a holiday when the selling time comes around?
-- Jesse Lauriston Livermore -
This is a business, the direct selling, that bizarrely works best when times are bad.
-- Jim Cramer -
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Writers are always selling somebody out.
-- Joan Didion -
I did commercials since I was 16, and that's kind of acting, depending on what you're selling.
-- Joan Severance -
It's a good thing Doom 3 is selling very well...
-- John Carmack -
One of the really fascinating areas is marketplaces that take advantage of mobile devices. Ridesharing is the obvious example, but that's just the start of it, of selling goods and services with lightweight mobile apps.
-- John Collison -
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I feel like I'd like to continue putting out records and start putting them out more rapidly than I have until now and for me if I can keep selling the records to the fans that already like me that's fine.
-- John Frusciante -
Nobody has ever gone broke selling escape to the American public.
-- John Lahr -
Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.
-- John Mayer -
This is about black people selling out other black people.
-- John Mellencamp -
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As a brand marketer, I'm a big believer in 'branding the customer experience,' not just selling the service.
-- John Sculley -
Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again.
-- Johnny Depp -
There’s a difference between making an imitation and selling it.
-- Jonathan Hoefler -
I was a caddy. I also worked as a bouncer, selling Christmas trees at Frank's Nursery and before that, selling what they normally sell.
-- Joseph Bruce -
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It's a gold rush ad we're selling the shovels.
-- Josh Williams -
... there is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating ...
-- Kate Douglas Wiggin -
Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
-- Katharine Hepburn -
I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.
-- Kay Granger -
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All of us are selling ourselves, every single minute of every single dayeach one of us is building our own 'brand of me' and saying 'buy into me, put your faith into me, give me this shot, I will make it happen.'
-- Kimora Lee Simmons -
If you're looking to make a basic living selling and playing your music, the Internet is all you really need.
-- Kina Grannis -
When you come close to selling out, reconsider.
-- Lee Ann Womack -
I just figured out hustles to get by, like maybe selling my clothes. I wanted to travel around and be broke and live in sketchy apartments.
-- Leo Fitzpatrick -
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It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few...
-- LeRoy Neiman -
I'm just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy
-- Lisa Marie Presley -
Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.
-- Macy Gray -
I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
-- Manuel Puig -
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Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.
-- Marissa Mayer -
If you've ever had somebody try to sell you something - people who can sell, they really are not manipulating you. They are selling themselves.
-- Matthew Weiner -
Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information.
-- Melissa Bean -
Mr. President I am here to tell you we are not buying what you are selling in 2012.
-- Mia Love -
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Best selling authors are always worth listening to, even if you choose to ignore their advice.
-- Michael Dirda -
Is it really selling out if it feeds your family?
-- Michael Madsen -
All my money was made doing the dates and selling products when I was out there on the road.
-- Mickey Gilley -
Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
-- Miles Davis -
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I am interested in communicating with the world by selling to many people.
-- Miuccia Prada -
Luckily almost no one buys music anymore, so selling music doesn't really affect any of my professional decisions.
-- Moby -
The most important advance in selling for many years
-- Neil Rackham -
I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.
-- Nicholas Negroponte -
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My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.
-- Nicholas Negroponte -
No one's playing records anymore, so find your favorite and frame it, then get rid of the rest - try selling or donating them.
-- Niecy Nash -
Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it.
-- Nikki Sixx -
At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product.
-- Paul Hawken -
