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• People need to buy and want to. The selling itself becomes the entertainment, the sought-after good... In the Internet world there won't be any other way to peddle. To be successful advertising itself will have to supply real value to the consumer.

  Peter W. Huber

  Real, Successful, People

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• The idea of selling is a projection that people create about people that is more of a reflection of who they are than what is actually happening in front of them with the artist.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Artist, Reflection, Ideas

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• Galleries in the West have probably been looking for exoticism. That's the reason my paintings initially sold well, I think. And then once they started selling, people said my works were very detailed. They may have represented something Japanese to them.

  Takashi Murakami

  Thinking, People, West

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Marijuana does not cause brain damage. Our media does by creating fears, encouraging hate and then selling the remedy to the fears and hate the media creates.

  Steven Machat

  Hate, Marijuana, Media

  "A Cannabis Crusader Brings The Fight For Legal Weed To America’s Heartland". Interview with Stacey Chillemi, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2016.

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• If you're selling information - and I have a lot of friends who write a lot of bestselling books and they're selling information. They don't need to have a picture on the cover at all because they are not important. They're secondary to their information. To me, the information is secondary to me.

  Larry Winget

  Book, Writing, Important

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

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• I'm not stupid, I realise selling it is not as important as it used to be that way, I think it's more important to get your music out there and if people want to hear it an mp3 form or whatever I'm fine with that, I just don't enjoy the sound of it at home for personal taste.

  Butch Walker

  Stupid, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.soundscapemagazine.com

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• I think that the anti-Microsoft sentiment is simply due to their having been so successful selling a lot of crap.

  Steve Wozniak

  Funny, Humor, Successful

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• I am also involved with all the acquisitions and overall strategy. Now it's true, I don't run operations. But I've never really run operations. I've never had the endurance to run sales. The whole idea of selling to the customer just isn't my personality. I'm an engineer, tell me why something isn't working or is and I am curious.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Running, Ideas

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• I want to be in a position where I feel comfortable selling an idea.

  Scott Cohen

  Ideas, Want, Feels

  Interview with Kale Slade, www.movievine.com. December 19, 2011.

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• I'm just so happy and proud of everybody and what everybody's doing. From Curren$y doing decent numbers with the independent, digital release; from Asher selling 1.1 million-plus on iTunes with the single and almost at 200,000 [albums sold] now; Cudi got almost 4,000 BDS's a week; Mickey Factz doing the Rock The Bells tour; Blu signed a deal shortly after; Ace Hood had two very successful singles, another album getting ready to drop. Everybody's doing their thing, man.

  Wale

  Independent, Successful, Men

  "Wale Talks Media Hate, Charles Hamilton & Celebrity Women". Interview with Ernest Baker, www.complex.com. June 4, 2009.

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• I take myself seriously and want my image to me more than just something aesthetically suited towards selling records.

  John Dyer Baizley

  Records, Want

  "BARONESS' John Dyer Baizley Interview About His Artwork Process". Interview with Michael Weigman, www.metalinjection.net. July 10, 2014.

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• Not that the writers weren't good. I believe in those books and those writers very much. It's just that in the climate it's really hard to keep the lights on and the doors open when you're selling poetry and literature that appeals to a fringe audience.

  Henry Rollins

  Believe, Book, Light

  Source: w3.fiu.edu

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• I'd written my first novel for adults, which was called Basic Eight and was set in a high school, and we were having a devil of a time selling it. It ended up in the hands of an editor of a children's publishing house, for which it was entirely inappropriate. She said, "Well, we can't publish this, but I think you should write something for children," which I thought was a really terrible idea.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Writing, School

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• People ask what your vision is, what is your big vision? I say 'bhai', I got here by way of selling tea. I am a simple Chhota man. I like focusing on simple and small tasks. I want to accomplish big things for the little guy.

  Narendra Modi

  Powerful, Simple, Men

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• I have reached here by selling tea.

  Narendra Modi

  Powerful, Tea

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• The most important external environment is the government of India. You have to sell your ideas to the government. Selling the idea is the most important thing, and for that I'll meet anybody in the government. I am willing to salaam anyone. One thing you won't find in me and that is an ego.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Powerful, Government

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• It doesn't matter how many pairs of shoes you have, how many cars you have, etc.... It's all utterly meaningless and yet we continue to pursue this. Why? Because they've learned they can stimulate our primal desires through selling us products.

  Russell Brand

  Shoes, Car, Desire

  "Russell Brand On Set Interview GET HIM TO THE GREEK – Read or Listen Here". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 15, 2010.

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• Advertising. I'd definitely like to try that. In fact, it was a genuine second choice career-wise. I'd be good at selling stuff - I've got the gift of the gab.

  Tony Blackburn

  Wise, Careers, Choices

  The MIRROR Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 25, 2007.

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• Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound.

  Charles A. Dana

  Media, Two, White

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• Rather than simply interrupting a television show with a commercial or barging into the consumer’s life with an unannounced phone call or letter, tomorrow’s marketer will first try to gain the consumer’s consent to participate in the selling process.

  Seth

  Phones, Trying, Letters

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• You make more money selling advice than following it. It's one of the things we count on in the magazine business -- along with the short memory of our readers.

  Steve Forbes

  Memories, Advice, Magazines

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• Well, when I was younger, in high school, I started out smoking pot. Which escalated into taking acid on a regular basis, which escalated into selling acid. And then I started, when I went to college, I started doing opiates.

  John Wozniak

  School, College, Smoking

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• Persons who reach the higher rungs in business management, selling, engineering, religious work, writing, acting, and in every other pursuit get there by following conscientiously and continuously a plan for self-development and growth.

  David J. Schwartz

  Religious, Writing, Self

  David J Schwartz (2016). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.17, Random House

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• Anybody that says different is selling something.

  William Goldman

  Different, Selling Something

  The Princess Bride ch. 5 (1973)

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• The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange.

  William Petty

  Buying, Interest, Trade

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