Selling Quotes - Page 6

• Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon.

  Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

  Buying, Made, Lows

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• Listening, Testing, Coding, Designing. That's all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.

  Kent Beck

  Design, Listening, Different

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• My objection to the church isn't that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too - think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder. An it isn't so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires - though a lot of churches are that, too. My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Girl, Teaching, School

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• An industry begins with the customer and his or her needs, not with a patent, a raw material, or a selling skill

  Theodore Levitt

  Skills, Patents, Needs

  Theodore Levitt (2008). “Marketing Myopia”, p.71, Harvard Business Press

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• The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and
  money began to play an important part in determining
  elections. Later on, this process of corruption spread to
  the law courts. And then to the army, and finally the
  Republic was subjected to the rule of emperors

  Plutarch

  Army, Play, Law Courts

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• The world is now multicultural the same way the world is round. It's not a selling point, it's not a 'quirky' feature, it's not a cynical marketing ploy, it's not an artistic statement, it's not even a plot device. It's a fact, like seedless grapes.

  Zadie Smith

  Cynical, Marketing, Quirky

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• No one really needs to defend drinking. That's something that frustrates me as a comic: I have to play clubs where selling booze runs the business, so crowds get drunk and yell out a bunch of stupid stuff at me.

  Doug Benson

  Running, Stupid, Drinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you're creating something that has some sort of cultural currency - if the idea is getting out there - then that will probably yield money in some form, whether it's through selling art or selling books or being asked to give a lecture.

  Shepard Fairey

  Art, Book, Yield

  Interview with Iggy Pop, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2010.

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• There is a lot of anxiety in India about writers selling out to foreign audiences, but I’m neither flattering the Indian audience nor the American audience. I’m uneasily somewhere in the middle.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Anxiety, India, Middle

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• I was lucky with my first film because it had Warhol in it. That was the selling point.

  Mary Harron

  Lucky, Firsts, Film

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• I used to have an eBay addiction. I was really good at selling stuff. My sister needed to get to a funeral in Ireland - the airlines were on strike - so I listed her on eBay: damsel in distress. Guys were outbidding guys to be the hero and help her. A guy who owned a helicopter won.

  James Blunt

  Hero, Ebay, Addiction

  "He Writes the Songs You Love". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. September 30, 2007.

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• I came from advertising. For me it's about protecting the director's vision. That's always the goal. There's keeping things on budget and on time and dealing with selling the movie so that to me is a focus. But also it's about serving the script. We are genre filmmakers, those are the films we love to make, so my perspective is a little different.

  Charles Roven

  Goal, Perspective, Focus

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• A store in Houston is selling Donald Trump piñatas filled with candy. So finally something good is going to come out of Donald Trump.

  Conan O'Brien

  Houston, Stores, Trump

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• In China, people are selling their kidney to buy an iPhone 6. What's going to happen when the iPhone 7 comes out?

  Conan O'Brien

  Iphone, People, Kidneys

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• The mood in the market is one of a high level of caution. When you get some selling coming in, it's almost like a chain reaction - - it builds on itself.

  Albert Goldman

  Levels, Mood, Chain Reactions

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• Don't try to be all things to all people. Concentrate on selling something unique that you know there is a need for, offer competitive pricing and good customer service.

  Lillian Vernon

  Unique, People, Trying

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• I'm going to be bringing people into the public diplomacy function of the department who are going to change from just selling us in the old USIA way to really branding foreign policy, branding the department, marketing the department, marketing American values to the world and not just putting out pamphlets.

  Colin Powell

  People, Marketing, World

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• The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and selling to high-wage democracies. Indeed, the striking quality about global enterprises is how easily free-market capitalism puts aside its supposed values in order to do business. The conditions of human freedom do not matter to them so long as the market demand is robust. The absence of freedom, if anything, lends order and efficiency to their operations.

  William Greider

  Order, Long, Democracy

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• Teaching can be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless someone buys ... yet there are teachers who think they have done a good day's teaching irrespective of what the pupils have learned.

  John Dewey

  Teacher, Teaching, Good Day

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• Baby boomers selling your rumors of their history, forcein' youth away from the truth of what's real today

  Mike Watt

  Baby, Real, Rumor

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• Had there been no Plato, the Christians would have had a harder time selling the idea that all God really wanted from us was fraternal love.

  Richard Rorty

  Christian, Plato, Ideas

  Richard Rorty (1999). “Philosophy and Social Hope”, ePenguin

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• The Australians, it seems to me, thrive on their remoteness from the world and see it as a way of keeping up a code of "No worries, mate," while peddling their oddities to visitors: nonconformity is at once a fact of life for many, and a selling point.

  Pico Iyer

  Oddities, Worry, World

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• Many investors make the mistake of buying high and selling low while the exact opposite is the right strategy to outperform over the long term.

  John Paulson

  Mistake, Opposites, Long

  "Paulson Still a Bull After His Bare Year" by Gregory Zuckerman and Steve Eder, www.wsj.com. September 19, 2011.

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• When one has the right swing and enthusiasm, selling is not unlike hunting, a veritable sport. To scare up the game by preliminary talk and to know how long to follow it, to lose your gain through poorly directed argument, to hang on to game that finally eludes, to boldly confront, to quickly circle around, to keep on the trail, tireless and keen, till you have bagged some orders, there is some satisfaction in returning at night, tired of the trail, but proud of the days work done.

  Carl Sandburg

  Sports, Tired, Night

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• I think there's two ways to make money online. One way is by selling other people's stuff, the other way is by selling your stuff.

  Jeffrey Walker

  Thinking, Two, People

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