Selling Quotes - Page 15

• I've done everything from cater, wait tables, pre-school teacher, painting, to being Cinderella, Elmo, a clown, nanny, selling hair... I would do kid's parties and entertain and do magic and paint faces and balloon animals. The highlight of my life.

  Diora Baird

  Teacher, Party, School

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• Business executives need to start by spelling out and communicating their values. Then they need to lead by example. This means getting rid of the bad apples and declining opportunities that bring instant wealth at the cost of selling one's soul.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Mean, Opportunity, Apples

  "Corruption in Business, and the Importance of Ethics" by Vivek Wadhwa, www.linkedin.com. July 13, 2013.

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• I'm thinking of buying a church and changing it around: maybe selling crack and having a few whores in the pew.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Church, Cracks

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• I just started to do my own thing for about a year and a half, and I worked in the evening selling phonograph records. Then I said to myself, "I'm afraid I have to go to New York after all."

  Claes Oldenburg

  New York, Years, Records

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Jesus is not a candle. A company in South Dakota is selling candles with the scent of Jesus. You light one and your friends says, Christ, what's that smell?

  Bill Maher

  Jesus, Light, Smell

  Bill Maher (2005). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.185, Rodale

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• My first job as a kid was going from door to door selling Christmas cards, to raise money for my grandmother's hip replacement. Because, you know... You break it, you buy it.

  Emo Philips

  Jobs, Kids, Grandmother

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• I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes. However, I don't think I'm as well versed in shoes as I am in comedy. Being a salesman was all about being a people person, and I enjoy being around people. I also love talking to people - which is why I think I did so well.

  Kevin Hart

  Thinking, Talking, Shoes

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• Art and resistance are great together. That's what art's made for. Look at Vincent van Gogh: He didn't cut off his ear because he was selling well.

  Albert Brooks

  Art, Cutting, Together

  "Albert Brooks: What I've Learned". Esquire, "The Meaning of Life" issue, www.esquire.com. January 2011.

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• Images are no longer what they used to be. They can't be trusted any more. We all know that. You know that. When we grew up, images were telling stories and showing them. Now they're all into selling. They've changed under our very eyes. They don't even know how to do it anymore. They've plain forgotten. Images are selling out the world. And at a big discount.

  Wim Wenders

  Eye, World, Telling Stories

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• David Simon [the creator of The Wire] and I have a running controversy for years. It all stems from a telephone call I made to KPFA [Pacifica radio] when he was a guest there in the 90's on Chris Welche's show. He was going around the country with a Black kid from the Ghetto to promote something called The Corner - it was all about Blacks as degenerates selling drugs, etc.

  Ishmael Reed

  Running, Country, Kids

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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

  Mick Jagger

  Lots Of Money, Selling Out

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• People nowadays interchange gifts and favors out of friendship, but buying and selling is considered absolutely inconsistent with the mutual benevolence which should prevail between citizens and the sense of community of interest which supports our social system. According to our ideas, buying and selling is essentially anti-social in all its tendencies. It is an education in self-seeking at the expense of others, and no society whose citizens are trained in such a school can possibly rise above a very low grade of civilization

  Edward Bellamy

  School, Self, Civilization

  Edward Bellamy (2000). “Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887”, p.57, Applewood Books

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• When I wasn't killing time in school, I was sparring in the gym or selling crack on the strip.

  Curtis Jackson

  School, Cracks, Killing

  "50 Cent Is Being Called A Child Abuser For Boxing With His Son" by Delenda Joseph, uproxx.com. December 17, 2016.

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• I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of an album than signing with a record company and selling a million copies. There has never been a truer statement about show business than that.

  Bill Burr

  Documentaries, Albums, Band

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• If you're selling something on Craiglist, it's never a good idea to end the description with, May have lice.

  Dana Gould

  Ideas, Lice, May

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• Pimp stands for Positive Intellectual Motivated Person. It has nothing to do with selling sex for money.

  Christian Finnegan

  Sex, Pimp, Intellectual

  "Best Week Ever", www.imdb.com. (2004-).

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• White pants should be worn on two occasions: One, never. And two, if you're selling ice cream.

  Greg Proops

  Ice Cream, Two, White

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• I've done everything. Selling door-to-door fire extinguishers... In bars, I used to repair those machines that have 10 different buttons on them to spray club soda and seltzer.

  J. B. Smoove

  Fire, Doors, Buttons

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• I've always taken risks and bought property well. As journalism wasn't particularly well paid, buying homes and selling them for profit improved my income.

  Anne Robinson

  Taken, Home, Risk

  "Anne Robinson: 'I was paid £300 a week for Points of View, now I'm worth £30m'". Interview with Roz Lewis, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 20, 2015.

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• I have a lot of charity work I'm into right now, and selling my Chakalates - supporting that whole effort.

  Chaka Khan

  Effort, Charity, Whole

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• The history of pop is a progression of underground styles going mainstream, so there's nothing unusual about the White Stripes or Franz Ferdinand selling records.

  Sasha Frere-Jones

  White, Stripes, Style

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• I think about never losing my voice, never giving in, never selling out, always keeping black, always sticking to the street. Staying neighborhood and not Hollywood.

  Paul Mooney

  Thinking, Voice, Giving

  Paul Mooney (2009). “Black Is the New White”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• The tabloids operate in an amoral parallel universe where the bottom line is selling newspapers.

  Steve Coogan

  Tabloids, Lines, Newspapers

  "Steve Coogan: Why I won't let News Corp off the hook" by James Robinson, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2011.

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• Who would think of buying or selling a private business because of someone's guess on the stock market? The availability of a quotation for your business interest (stock) should always be an asset to be utilized if desired. If it gets silly enough in either direction, you take advantage of it. Its availability should never be turned into a livability whereby its periodic aberrations in turn formulate your judgements.

  Warren Buffett

  Silly, Thinking, Availability

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• We should not feel so sorely grieved if no man who had not attained the full stature of a Webster, Clay, Van Buren, or Gerrit Smith could claim the right of the elective franchise. But to have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rum-selling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to the dignity of woman to be longer quietly submitted to.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Horse, Silly, Boys

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ellen Carol DuBois (1992). “The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches”, Northeastern Univ Pr

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