Selling Out Quotes

• Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules and rewards.

  Bill Watterson

  Buying In, Rewards, Matter

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

  Confucius

  Money, Business, Philosophical

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• It's not selling out, it is called making lots of money.

  Mick Jagger

  Selling, Lots Of Money

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• Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.

  Lily Tomlin

  Integrity, Past, Differences

  "Modern Scream". Comedy album by Lily Tomlin, 1975.

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• The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Business, Way

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.168, Lulu.com

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• When you come close to selling out, reconsider.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Selling, I Hope You Dance

  Song: I Hope You Dance, Album: I Hope You Dance

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• To me, 'selling out' means everyone bought a ticket.

  Courtney Love

  Mean, Tickets, Selling

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• So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

  Steve Jobs

  Business, People, Perspective

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.68, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Dream, Art, Thinking

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• Crime is based upon need, making money.  People sell drugs to make money.  But if everybody is cared for, they don't sell drugs and if there's no money you can't sell drugs even if you wanted to.  There'd be no such thing as gambling, prostitution, or selling out, or paying off a senator or a governor.  There are no senators, there are no governors so you can't pay them off.  If you take away the basis or the condition that generate abhorrent behavior, you don't have abhorrent behavior.

  Jacque Fresco

  Money, Caring, Gambling

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• I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.

  Banksy

  Art, House, Guilty

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• Is it really selling out if it feeds your family?

  Michael Madsen

  Selling, Our Family, Ifs

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

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• I don't plan on selling out. I mean, it's nice to get a dinner reservation ahead of other people, but when it comes down to it, the most important thing to me is the actual work.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Nice, Mean, People

  "Scarlett Johansson: Scarlett Woman". Interview with Stephen Rebello, movieline.com. February 1, 2004.

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• Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.

  Bono

  Want, Selling

  Interview with Greg Kot, www.chicagotribune.com. May 13, 2005.

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• I'm just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy

  Lisa Marie Presley

  People, Selling, Not Interested

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• I've got nothing against selling out, but just let me do it for something that matters. Not so I can be Number One With a Bullet, as it were, but so I can leave this world feeling like I made a difference.

  Harry Chapin

  Numbers, Differences, Feelings

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

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• I'm not interested in selling out my career for a big paycheck. I would love to live a little more comfortably, but it is very important for me to try and maintain my soul and integrity as a filmmaker in as big of a way as possible.

  Daryl Wein

  Integrity, Careers, Soul

  Source: collider.com

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• You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.

  Alan Alda

  Business, School, Want

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• Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.

  Christopher Reeve

  Uplifting, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• Doing something that you love regardless when it's a blockbuster movie or you're writing a pop song or trying shamelessly to succeed in something is not selling out. I think that's actually fine, and I would encourage that all the time.

  Adam Levine

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I admire Mark Zuckerberg... for not selling out, for wanting to make a company. I admire that a lot.

  Steve Jobs

  Zuckerberg, Selling, Mark

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• You've got to be in a place where you can put your guard down. I've got a long list of things I consider to be selling out. But amongst that list, one of them is when you make art without putting your guard down.

  Devendra Banhart

  Art, Long, Lists

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I have no trouble selling out—I’m a benevolent hack, in a certain way—but I want to pander for something I believe in.

  Harold Ramis

  Believe, Want, Way

  "Comedy First" By Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. April 19, 2004.

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• I can say with full sincerity that I am happy. I'm happy because I'm doing what I love and I'm not selling out. And I can sleep at night because I'm at peace with it.

  Columbus Short

  Sleep, Night, Sincerity

  "Discovering Columbus". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• We're not going to give tax breaks to billionaires and then cut back on the needs of our elderly or poor or kids or education. We're not going to privatize Social Security - in fact, we're going to strengthen it. We're going to provide quality education for every kid in America, from preschool through college. We have to take on these corporate leaders who are selling out the American people, whose allegiance is now much more to China than it is to the United States. If we have the courage to take these people on, I think we can overwhelm George W. Bush and his friends.

  Bernie Sanders

  Kids, Cutting, Thinking

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