Selling Quotes - Page 22

• I always thought we were selling dreams, not clothes

  Irving Penn

  Dream, Clothes

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• Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty years, but if someone asked my occupation, I'd say writer, even if I'd never sold a word. Writers write. Other people talk.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Writing, Years, People

  W. P. Kinsella (1999). “Shoeless Joe”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is incumbent upon us all to raise the bar, whether you are a multibillion-dollar international corporation or a mom-and-pop selling blackberry jam.

  Howard Schmidt

  Mom, Dollars, Bars

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• I guess the quality that makes one write poetry keeps one from selling it.

  Louise Closser Hale

  Writing, Poetry, Quality

  Louise Closser Hale (1912). “Her Soul and Her Body”

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• We are selling ourselves very short by funneling our energies into what the traditional perception is of academic and monetary success.

  Gunter Pauli

  Success, Perception, Energy

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• One may gain attention by wearing a fools cap. But he would ruin his selling prospects

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Writing, Fool, Attention

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Claude C. Hopkins, John E. Kennedy, Albert D. Lasker “Scientific Advertising Origins”, Lulu.com

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• No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you mount it of your own volition, on a trip funded by your own coffee tin of wrinkled up dollars - bills you've saved and scrounged for, worked the all-night switchboard for, missed the Rolling Stones for, sold fragrant pot with smashed flowers going brown inside twist-tie plastic baggies for. In fact, to disembark from your origins, you've done everything you can think to scrounge money save selling your spanking young pussy.

  Mary Karr

  Coffee, Flower, Night

  Mary Karr (2001). “Cherry”, p.16, Penguin

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• I always had faith in the internet. I believed in it and thought it was obviously going to change the way the world worked. I really did not understand why others were selling their stock. As stock prices plunged, I just bought them, one after another, since I had the money. I guess I was rather lucky.

  Takafumi Horie

  Money, Lucky, World

  "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. November 23, 2005.

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• The top group of fundraisers for Mr. Obama raised $457,834 for his 2008 campaign - and were approved for federal grants and loans of $11.4 billion, according to the Government Accountability Institute. Selling access to the federal treasury has been a great way for Democrats to raise campaign funds. Since 1989, according to an analysis by Gateway Pundit, big donors have provided $416 million more in direct contributions to Democrats than Republicans.

  Jack Kelly

  Government, Accountability, Analysis

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• Selling - at its core - is not a business transaction. It is first and foremost the forging of a human connection.

  Bob Burg

  Connections, Human Connection, Firsts

  FaceBook post by Bob Burg from Dec 21, 2010

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• Advertising agencies primary goal is to advertise and sell themselves to the client. Selling the product to the public comes second.

  Mark Jackson

  Agency, Goal, Clients

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• There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.

  Alexander Hamilton

  War, Loss, Men

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• The ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to both sales and non-sales selling. And the social science research on perspective-taking yields some important lessons for all of us.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Keys, Yield

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• Evangelism is selling a dream.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Inspirational, Dream, Evangelism

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• His Unique Selling Position was to make the world work for 100% of humanity. .

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Unique, Humanity

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• Jesus offered a single incentive to follow himto summarize his selling point: 'Follow me, and you might be happy-or you might not. Follow me, and you might be empowered-or you might not. Follow me, and you might have more friends-or you might not. Follow me, and you might have the answers-or you might not. Follow me, and you might be better off-or you might not. If you follow me, you may be worse off in every way you use to measure life. Follow me nevertheless. Because I have an offer that is worth giving up everything you have: you will learn to love well.'

  Samir Selmanovic

  Jesus, Giving Up, Use

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• Never criticize, condemn or complain in a conversation with a customer or prospect.

  Brian Tracy

  Complaining, Conversation, Criticize

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Successful Selling”, p.9, Jaico Publishing House

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• People get caught up in wonderful, eye-catching pitches, but they don't do enough to close the deal. It's no good if you don't make the sale. Even if your foot is in the door or you bring someone into a conference room, you don't win the deal unless you actually get them to sign on the dotted line.

  Donald Trump

  Eye, Winning, Doors

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• I have the idea that running shoes are based on a kind of cult idea - that our feet are flawed and we need shoes to correct those flaws. The shoe companies are in the business of selling shoes. But there's no evidence from running shoe manufacturers that they're right. There's no scientific data that running shoes reduce injury.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Data, Shoes

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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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• It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked.

  Carolyn McCarthy

  Country, Children, Real

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• Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm.

  Jill Clayburgh

  Nice, Agriculture, Would Be

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• You should consider an employment change before you consider selling out.

  Phil McGraw

  Honor, Employment, Should

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• My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years.

  Sara Blakely

  Years, Fax Machines, Firsts

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• Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question.

  Brian Tracy

  Phrases, Form, Ifs

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