Selling Quotes - Page 8

• I'm always kind of contradictory to what people want and what's selling. But maybe I should care now because I have two or three more outlets. I have to be more adaptable color-wise to what people want. It's usually just black and pink, and that's it.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Wise, Color, Two

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• New York restaurants are about selling atmospheres.

  Andy Warhol

  New York, Atmosphere, Restaurants

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Book depository is nothing new; there've been outlets selling books internationally via mail order for many decades - the only change is that it's now easier to find and use such services.

  Charles Stross

  Book, Order, Use

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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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• The irony about selling out is that they only call you a sell-out when your stuff finally sells - I've had products bearing my name since I was 14, but nobody was buying them then.

  Tony Hawk

  Names, Stuff, Buying

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• You're not selling products. You're creating relationships.

  Robert G. Allen

  Selling Products, Creating, Products

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

  Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

  Buying, Made, Lows

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• They even let me do the ads for the album. I definitely want it all to be presented right, but I don't want to be selling. I mean, people do deluxe editions, and I don't even really know how I feel about those yet.

  Robin Pecknold

  Mean, People, Let Me

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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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• Truth is the pearl without price. One cannot obtain truth by buying it-all you can do is to strive for spiritual truth and when one is ready, it will be given freely. Nor should spiritual truth be sold, lest the seller be injured spiritually. You lose any spiritual contact the moment you commercialize it. Those who have the truth would not be packaging and selling it, so anyone who is selling it, really does not possess it.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Doe, Packaging

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.30, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I'm confused about who the news belongs to. I always have it in my head that if your name's in the news, then the news should be paying you. Because it's your news and they're taking it and selling it as their product. ...If people didn't give the news their news, and if everybody kept their news to themselves, the news wouldn't have any news.

  Andy Warhol

  Confused, Names, People

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• The traditional selling models, methods, and techniques that most of us have been trained to use work best in small sales. For now, let me define small as a sale which can normally be completed in a single call and which involves a low dollar value. Unfortunately, these tried-and-true low-value sales techniques, most of them dating from the 1920s, don't work today.

  Neil Rackham

  Dating, Use, Today

  Neil Rackham (1988). “SPIN Selling: Situation Problem Implication Need-Payoff”, p.5, McGraw Hill Professional

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• If football wasn't a part of my life, there were three things that could have happened, and they were all bad. I would have likely been selling drugs, in jail or dead.

  Chad Ochocinco

  Football, Jail, Drug

  Chad Ochocinco, Jason Cole (2009). “Ocho Cinco: What Football and Life Have Thrown My Way”, p.228, Crown Archetype

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• I believe we may lessen the danger of buying and selling votes, by making the number of voters too great for any means of purchase. I may further say that I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Honesty, Believe, Mean

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.171, Cambridge University Press

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• Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And, of course, it paid dividends. Ill-tempered guards at the most notorious border crossings waved him through with cheery smiles. Haughty maitre d's fawned over him.

  Scott Anderson

  Father, Vegetables, Soldier

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