Selling Quotes - Page 36

• I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point.

  Shiv Khera

  Moving, Car, Vacuums

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• Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop.

  Jeremy Robinson

  Easier, Pops, Novel

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• I have fantasy jobs like working in retail at a department store just selling rich housewives outfits and saying 'this looks fabulous on you! Let me find a matching handbag!' Then, the other is being like some sort of Vice or taskforce, law enforcement, undercover [person]. Or possibly someday becoming a guerilla activist - I'm kind of in-training for that now anyways. So, maybe my retirement will be jumping on ships, kidnapping, and [participating in] espionage. I still fantasize.

  Mike Ness

  Retirement, Jobs, Jumping

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• We have broken the shackles of conservative socialism. The growing middle classes want the kind of standard of living you enjoy in the West. So what I'm selling is a lifestyle.

  Vijay Mallya

  Class, Broken, Want

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• Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of selling out. Thus, even the languages of capitalism and art conflict: a firm that has 'sold out' has succeeded, but an artist that has 'sold out' has failed.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Art, Hard Work, Want

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• We've become a nation of con men, living by selling double glazing to each other.

  Fred Dibnah

  Men, Nations

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

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• It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Artist, People, Trying

  "James Vincent McMorrow: 'I like my own musical company'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2014.

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• Cain understands domestic issues because he had experience selling pizza; and he understands international issues because pizza is Italian.

  Stephen Colbert

  Italian, Issues, Cain

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• My fear is that the Tea Party gets a charismatic leader. Because all they're selling is fear and anger. And that's all Hitler sold. 'I'm angry and I'm frightened, and you should hate that guy over there.' And that's what they're doing.

  Rob Reiner

  Hate, Party, Guy

  "Rob Reiner likens 'tea party' movement to Hitler". latimesblogs.latimes.com. October 25, 2010.

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• There are a lot of comics at the top end making staggering amounts of money and selling out stadiums. I think stand-up is a more intimate thing than that. Maybe because of the kind of comedy I do. It's like a discussion, but I'm the one with the microphone.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Thinking, Comedy, Kind

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

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• Selling millions of records is great, but at the end of the day it really doesn't bring peace.

  TobyMac

  The End Of The Day, Records, Ends

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• There's such a huge link with fashion, with front covers of magazines and selling products, but that's not what you go into the job for, and yet you're persuaded that's what you have to do to create the opportunities for yourself.

  Ruth Wilson

  Fashion, Jobs, Opportunity

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

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• Remember: A best-selling book usually follows a simple rule, It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told; not, It's a wonderfully told story.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Book, Simple, Stories

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• I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.

  Dan Harmon

  Hatred, Wish, Television

  "The Showrunner Transcript: Community’s Dan Harmon on Finale Cameos and Season-Long Lessons". Interview with Kyle Buchanan, www.vulture.com. May 13, 2011.

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• If the networks can get audiences to tolerate pop-up promos by the dozens, maybe they'll start selling pop-up commercials, too.

  Tom Shales

  Dozen, Pops, Tolerate

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• I don't run a non-profit. There are lots of non-profits in America - in Detroit, parts of Wall Street, etc. I run a not for profit. We're a business. The only difference is that instead of selling soap or sneakers, we sell hope and leadership.

  Nancy Lublin

  Running, Wall, Sneakers

  "Our Not-for-Profit Business" by Nancy Lublin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2008.

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• There is a concerted effort to keep you and me, you know, the people, away from what it [war] really looks like, 'cause when you're selling war, when it's such a big industry. What they don't tell you is the rest of it and the down side of it. And so obviously there is a lot of money and a lot of time and effort being spent on that campaign "perpetual war for perpetual peace".

  Henry Rollins

  War, People, Effort

  "Hard Travelin' With Henry Rollins: An Exclusive Interview". Interview with Jason Leopold, www.truth-out.org. August 27, 2012.

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• You could have these crazy Internet valuations in the late 1990s, but they prove themselves out in the market. The next day they were selling for more than they were the day before, and people said, you know, you're crazy if you don't get in on this. So it's very human.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Crazy, Next Day, People

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• Resolution Trust Company was set up to liquidate a bunch of assets that the government had inherited because the savings and loans went broke. So the savings and loans went broke, the government stepped in, paid off depositors, and now they're left with this mass of assets to sell. We're not talking about selling here, we're talking about buying intelligently. They were selling what they got handed to them by a bunch of savings and loan operators that had in many cases had done some very dumb thing. But their job was to liquidate it. And they liquidated.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Jobs, Government, Talking

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• 80% of all products and services that will be on the market in five years do not exist today. So therefore, always be innovative, always be creative, always think, 'What new products or services could I create, could I represent, could I joint venture?" Sometimes you can find someone else that has a fabulous product or service that you can use your existing business or resources to sell and you can double your income or sales in your business by selling somebody else's product to the same customers that are buying yours.

  Brian Tracy

  Thinking, Years, Creative

  Source: ceotraining.com

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• In the retail business, many people are too consumed with the bottom line. How much am I going to be selling? Am I going to be able to do all the things I need to get done? Instead, if they are at peace and feeling good about themselves - if they are treating customers with love and acting as statesmen and stateswomen and people who are connected to God in a spiritual sense - then every day for them is a real joy.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Real, People

  New Age Retailer Interview, www.drwaynedyer.com. November 2005.

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• The rewards we get by being those weird guys going against the grain to me are way more massive than selling a million billion records. I like climbing mountains or going on undersea dives for whales and stuff like that.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Whales, Climbing, Guy

  Interview with Joseph Hooper, www.elle.com. April 15, 2009.

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• I have lots of CDs that came out at one time or another, and according to the statements I've gotten, no one's buying them.I figured there's no need making a new CD. There are plenty of mine out there, and none of them are selling.

  Mose Allison

  Cds, Needs, Buying

  Interview with Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. April 02, 2010.

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• Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so rich with irony that it's a better subject for a comic novel than a column.... On one coast the cops are busting sex workers on Eighth Avenue, dragging them downtown to night court where they pay the fine and go right back to their corner; on another they're charging Heidi Fleiss with pandering in a town in which the verb is an art form.

  Anna Quindlen

  Art, Sex, Home

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• The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.

  Jeff Bezos

  Leadership, Book, Technology

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