Selling Quotes - Page 34

• Not offering this kind of guarantee means that they do not believe in their product enough, and they do not care about if a salesman is over promising or over selling their product.

  Matthew Lesko

  Believe, Mean, Offering

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• Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.

  Uma Thurman

  Jobs, Men, Years

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• To a proprietor of a mine, the silver money is a produce with which he buys what he has occasion for. To all those through whose hands this silver afterwards passes, it is only the price of the produce which they themselves have raised by means of their property in land, their capitals, or their industry. In selling them they in the first place exchange them for money, and afterwards they exchange the money for articles of consumption.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Mean, Hands, Land

  Jean Baptiste Say (1936). “Letters to Thomas Robert Malthus on Political Economy and Stagnation of Commerce”, p.6, Lulu.com

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• Before the whole [music] business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of a vortex of the business. It's such a seismic shift really.

  Arthur Fogel

  Vortex, Records, Kind

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• I don't have a religion. I ain't nothing wrong with church as long as they selling chicken. Cause I read the Quran, I read the Kabalah, I read the Bible. They all got the same three basic principles: Love God, love your neighbor as yourself, and...As far as me being, I live by those principles.

  Kevin Gates

  Love You, Long, Church

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• I try to be true to myself yet still at the same time look at comments and look at what the fans have to say and kind of put it in perspective. I'm never someone whose not open for opinion, I'm always just down to make it work and see how we can do things but at the end of the day I always want to make sure it represents me. It's really about just being humble and not selling yourself on being there already.

  Kid Ink

  Humble, Perspective, The End Of The Day

  Source: thecomeupshow.com

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• I didn't understand that you could go to jail for the rest of your life for selling cocaine. I thought life sentences were for murderers. I didn't know that you could get it for supplying something to someone that they asked you for.

  Rick Ross

  Jail, Rest Of Your Life, Cocaine

  Source: www.brownpoliticalreview.org

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• I would love to win an Oscar one day. That would be a very wonderful thing. But in the meantime, I really hope that I make films I'm proud of. A lot of people aren't going to like the movies I make, I'm sure. But as long as I'm proud of the movie and I'm not selling out, and I'm doing things that make me happy and make me grow as an actress, I'll be good.

  Selena Gomez

  Winning, Long, People

  Interview with Miranda Clarke, cinemanerdz.com. July 4, 2011.

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• The pictures from the first professional photo session that the young David
  Beckham submitted himself to are extraordinary. He has a barely suppressed
  smile, as though he and the cameraman are complicit in the understanding
  that this is not yet David Beckham we see and that there is an element of
  deceit in selling the photographs as such

  Julie Burchill

  Understanding, Deceit, Elements

  Julie Burchill (2012). “On Beckham”, p.6, Random House

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• I make more money selling advice than following it

  Malcolm Forbes

  Advice, More Money, Following

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• I think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my concerts, they often hold up candles when we do "Let It Be." I don't think they'd do that anymore if the song suddenly became part of an Oldsmobile ad.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Moving, Thinking

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• My first real business was bootlegging T-shirts - I was just a dumb kid. You go to a concert and pay $25 for a cotton T-shirt that says 'Rolling Stones,' 'Lollapalooza,' or whatever. On the outside they're 10 or 15 bucks. We were the guys selling them for 10 or 15 bucks.

  Kevin Plank

  Real, Kids, Guy

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• I think a lot of my dreams have come true, and my next dream is to have a No. 1 selling album. A Grammy-award-winning album.

  Tessanne Chin

  Dream, Thinking, Winning

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

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• I have to admit I've always had quite a complex relationship with modeling and with the idea of advertising: not always knowing what I'm advertising and selling.

  Lily Cole

  Ideas, Knowing, Advertising

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

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• It's a good thing Doom 3 is selling very well.

  John Carmack

  Good Things, Doom, Wells

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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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• 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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• 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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• By believing that only some of our students will ever develop a love of books and reading, we ignore those who do not fall into books and reading on their own. We renege on our responsibility to teach students how to become self-actualized readers. We are selling our students short by believing that reading is a talent and that lifelong reading behaviors cannot be taught.

  Donalyn Miller

  Believe, Book, Fall

  Donalyn Miller (2013). “Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits”, p.21, John Wiley & Sons

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• There are two things that create opportunities. One is being involved with something that makes money, and the other is winning awards. And the reason that winning the awards creates the opportunities is because it gives the people who are selling the picture the opportunity to make more money.

  Kevin Bacon

  Winning, Opportunity, Awards

  “Piers Morgan Tonight”, www.cnn.com. June 10, 2011.

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• In the beginning I was really, really lean. For the longest time I did it all. I played every hat. I was in the factory, doing the graphic design, the photography, the selling - literally everything. I saved money doing what I could myself. It was hard but I learned. I learned that nobody's better than you to get your business off the ground. The experience you get is priceless.

  Lori Greiner

  Photography, Design, Hats

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• Now on the other hand, if someone is selling a product, opening a dance studio, or has some other aim to help themselves, then I tend to look askance at some of these strange stories from outer space.

  Robert Stack

  Hands, Space, Strange Stories

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• The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.

  Barbara Corcoran

  War, Home, Winning

  "Can't sell your home? Here are 9 tips that will help" by Barbara Corcoran, www.today.com. December 15, 2010.

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• It is a curious fact that personal possessions take on fictitious values and exceptional charms when the owner, no matter how generous, is faced with giving them away or even selling them (which usually amounts to the same thing).

  Marjorie Hillis

  Giving, Matter, Facts

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