Sellers Quotes - Page 6

• The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.

  Napoleon Hill

  Ideas, Together, Stories

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.88, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Ads are planned and written with some utterly wrong conception. They are written to please the seller. The interests of the buyer are forgotten.

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Forgotten, Buyers, Interest

  "Scientific Advertising".

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• It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published and it was called Kinflicks. It turned out to be a best seller.

  Lisa Alther

  Years, Rejection, Firsts

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• We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers.

  Oswald Mosley

  Ice Cream, Black, Spirit

  After his Labour Party meeting in Cambridge was broken-up by pro-Fascist undergraduates, 1927.

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• Once you’ve read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe.

  Jessica Zafra

  Looks, Substance, Best Sellers

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• It's embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Government, Wind, Political

  "Steal This Book Too!‎". Book by Sean Curtis, 2004.

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• Most of what we know about sales comes from a world of information asymmetry, where for a very long time sellers had more information than buyers. That meant sellers could hoodwink buyers, especially if buyers did not have a lot of choices or a way to talk back.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Long, Choices

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• I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers, and W.C. Fields.

  Woody Allen

  Fields, Six, Genius

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• I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me.

  John Fowles

  Thinking, America, Like Me

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• A good friend and a bad friend are like a perfume-seller and a blacksmith: The perfume-seller might give you some perfume as a gift, or you might buy some from him, or at least you might smell its fragrance. As for the blacksmith, he might singe your clothes, and at the very least you will breathe in the fumes of the furnace.

  Muhammad

  Best Friend, Bad Friend, Good Friend

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• A price drop in a good stock is only a tragedy if you sell at that price and never buy more. To me, a price drop is an opportunity to load up on bargains from among your worst performers and your laggards that show promise. If you can't convince yourself "When I'm down 25 percent, I'm a buyer" and banish forever the fatal thought "When I'm down 25 percent, I'm a seller," then you'll never make a decent profit in stocks.

  Peter Lynch

  Opportunity, Forever, Promise

  "One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market". Book by Peter Lynch and John Rothchild, 1989.

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• In Joel's view, that reformation begins with people going o the trouble and expense of buying directly from farmers they know - "relationship marketing," as he calls it. He believes the only meaningful guarantee of integrity is when buyers and sellers can look one another in the eye, something few of us ever take the trouble to do. "Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into choosing the person who grows their food?"

  Michael Pollan

  Meaningful, Integrity, Believe

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.124, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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• Why should antitrust laws be used to block mergers that the market, by the existence of willing buyers and sellers, shows to be desirable?

  Henry Manne

  Block, Law, Competition

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• If you see our best seller list, most of them are books that are given as gifts. They are books you give to flatter somebody.

  John Gimlette

  Book, Giving, Lists

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I prefer not to wink out from behind the character as myself, saying to the audience, "It's just me here, right, guys?" Peter Sellers is my model, and he didn't do that - he wore his character from head to toe.

  Andy Daly

  Character, Guy, Toes

  "'A Real Person Who Has Real Thoughts and Feelings'". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. February 29, 2016.

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• A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Book, Selling, Wells

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 10 years ago [in 2006], nearly 90 percent of those albums sold enough in that year to reach Gold status. 10 years later, about 30 percent were eligible. With the new rules, we figure about 40 percent of the top 200 best-sellers for the year will be eligible. We were very cautious in our approach to changing how we calculate what is eligible because the integrity of the process is our foremost consideration. It's difficult to get certified sales awards, and it's a big deal and we didn't want there to be a huge change in how many would be eligible.

  Cary Sherman

  Integrity, Awards, Years

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• You never saw Peter Sellers the actor trying to make you laugh. All he was doing was the character. What I'm saying is that I don't think you should know you're in a movie. I don't like it when actors are winking at the audience and saying, 'Right, isn't this funny? Are you with me?'

  Steve Carell

  Character, Thinking, Laughing

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• If you're looking for a New York Times best-seller, I may or may not give you that.

  Simon Sinek

  New York, Giving, May

  Source: advisor.tv

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• Young adults that actually read are reading bodice rippers and best-sellers and me. And Horror.

  Terry Pratchett

  Reading, Adults, Horror

  Source: bobneilson.org

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• If you take skinny jeans - skinny jeans didn't just happen in the US, they were happening in Japan, they were happening in the UK, they were happening everywhere. Some places a little faster than others. But, if we look at our best sellers in this store, they're the same best sellers that we have in the States.

  Paul Weller

  Jeans, Japan, Littles

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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• The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food, and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it!

  Andy Rooney

  Funny, Fitness, Book

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.210, PublicAffairs

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• When Emily Dickinson's poems were published in the 1890s, they were a best-seller; the first book of her poems went through eleven editions of a print run of about 400. So the first print run out of Boston for a first book of poems was 400 for a country that had fifty million people in it. Now a first print run for a first book is maybe 2,000? So that's a five-time increase in the expectation of readership. Probably the audience is almost exactly the same size as it was in 1900, if you just took that one example.

  Robert Hass

  Country, Running, Book

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The point is that if a book that had been published three years ago started to sell twice as many all of a sudden it probably wouldn't even get no­ticed. People wouldn't be tracking it. The system has cleaned up its act an awful lot but the best-seller list system is not an entirely foolproof thing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Years, People

  Source: bobneilson.org

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