Sellers Quotes - Page 2

• If we were a sex manual it'd be a best-seller.

  Rick Carlisle

  Sex, Ifs, Manuals

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• Equal interchange of goods and service between buyer and seller is the keynote of tomorrow's business world when the vision of the modern business man awakens him to the wisdom of writing that policy into his code of ethics.

  Walter Russell

  Business, Writing, Men

  "The Man who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe". Book by Glenn Clark, 1946.

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• However, the daily life of the slaves in the South, as observed by many travelers, was obscured for all time by the relentless promotion of a single book, Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Even today, any black who dares to say that perhaps we are not as badly off as our brethren in the jungles of Africa is hooted down as an "Uncle Tom." [...] It was no accident that Harriet Beecher Stowe's book became the greatest best seller of its time - it was tirelessly promoted throughout the entire nation, in the most successful book promotion campaign in our history.

  Eustace Mullins

  Uncles, War, Book

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• The world's greatest need . . . is mutual confidence. No human being ever knows all the secrets of another's heart. Yet there is enough confidence between mother and child, husband and wife, buyer and seller . . . to make social life a practical possibility. Confidence may be risky, but it is nothing like so risky as mistrust.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Mother, Children, Husband

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• 　When the leaders speak of peace
  　The common folk know
  　That war is coming
  　When the leaders curse war
  　The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread
  　I go to the market where lies are bought
  　Hopefully
  　I take up my place among the sellers.
  　

  Bertolt Brecht

  War, Lying, Common Folk

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• I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Book, Artist, Lucky

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• What makes eBay successful.. the real value and the real power at eBay is the community. It's the buyers and sellers coming together and forming a marketplace.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Success, Real, Ebay

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• Our industry expertise (at KKR) enables the firm not only to make better investment choices but also to win the confidence of senior management and sellers, which has enabled us to purchase many companies on an exclusive basis.

  Henry Kravis

  Senior, Winning, Choices

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• I used to think that good short-sellers could be trained like long-focused value investors because it should be the same skill set; you’re tearing into the numbers, you’re valuing the businesses, you’re assigning a consolidated value, and hopefully you’re seeing something the market doesn’t see.But now I’ve learned that there’s a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance.

  James Chanos

  Fall, Thinking, Skills

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• Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise. Prospective purchasers should much prefer sinking prices.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing, Should, Sinking

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.167, John Wiley & Sons

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• A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Talent, Mediocre, Tombs

  'Afterthoughts' (1931) 'Art and Letters'

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• It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power. Marx and Sorel have been influential in the modern world, not so much because they were best-sellers (Sorel in particular was not at all a widely read author), but because among their few readers were two men, called respectively Lenin and Mussolini.

  Aldous Huxley

  Book, Men, Two

  Aldous Huxley (1947). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.

  Harold Acton

  Two, Lasts, Fiction

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• I've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a good novel or a best-seller and get frustrated when they can't. I've learned to despise them.

  John Grisham

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.

  Leon Uris

  Book, Battle, Nine

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• And as far as actors go, Peter Sellers is my all-time favorite.

  Demetri Martin

  Actors, Peter, All Time

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

  Mike Myers

  Python, Ties, House

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• Dad loved movies and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.

  Mike Myers

  Dad, Comedy, Favourite

  "Mike Myers: My family values". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2010.

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• I'm a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it's something I think about. A comedic actor. I like to think that Christopher Guest, Phil Hartman, Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness are comedic actors. And Dan Aykroyd, too. Those are my heroes.

  Mike Myers

  Hero, Thinking, Actors

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• Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Education, Teacher, Women

  Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose "The Nature and Aims of Fiction" (1969)

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• Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

  Jennifer Weiner

  College, Hot, Fiction

  www.jenniferweiner.com. May, 2002.

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• Several sellers of hot meat pies and sausages in a bun had appeared from nowhere and were doing a brisk trade. [Footnote: They always do, everywhere. No-one sees them arrive. The logical explaination is that the franchise includes the stall, the paper hat and a small gas-powered time machine.]

  Terry Pratchett

  Pie, Meat, Hot

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• Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them. He was not unusual in this. In order to maintain his cover as a typical second-hand book seller, he used every means short of actual physical violence to prevent customers from making a purchase. Unpleasant damp smells, glowering looks, erratic opening hours - he was incredibly good at it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Mean, Hands

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• What kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the little things. Not to make the road wide for you, the table spread for you. To choose you out of habit not desire, to pass the flower seller without a thought. To leave the dishes unwashed, the bed unmade, to ignore you in the mornings, make use of you at night. To crave another while pecking your cheek. To say your name without hearing it, to assume it is mine to call.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Morning, Flower, Night

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• I ain't no author, man . . . my writing skills are not of "New York Times" best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.

  Steve Harvey

  New York, Believe, Writing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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