Selling Quotes - Page 9

• We don't measure whether an economy is developing. We just measure whether companies are selling more, whether inventories are up or down, not whether the health, safety and economic well-being of people are being advanced.

  Ralph Nader

  Selling More, People, Safety

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• My mom used to take me to antique shows, which I hated because everything was so dusty and old and there were all these weird ladies selling their antiques. We call them "eclectic" now. But it was really amazing that I was exposed to that when I was younger. Now that I have my own taste, I understand it more.

  Jason Wu

  Mom, Taste, Antiques

  Interview with Stephanie Seymour Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 17, 2013.

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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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• Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.

  Al Ries

  Marketing, Mind, Building

  Al Ries, Laura Ries (2009). “The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding: How to Build a Product or Service into a World-Class Brand”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• I was doing a lot of web design at the time. And anybody that has an agent thinks, "Why do I need an agent?" Maybe it's a little different as an actor - of course you need an agent - but any kind of agency that's selling something for you, you think, "Why can't I sell this myself? It doesn't make sense."

  Jeff Vespa

  Thinking, Agency, Design

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Buying's easier, selling's hard - [it's] hard to know when to get out.

  Seth Klarman

  Buying, Easier, Knows

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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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• You start selling the movie before you make it.

  David Cronenberg

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• My last point about getting started as a writer: do something first, good or bad, successful or not, and write it up before approaching an editor. The best introduction to an editor is your own written work, published or not. I traveled across Siberia on my own money before ever approaching an editor; I wrote my first book, Siberian Dawn, without knowing a single editor, with no idea of how to get it published. I had to risk my life on the Congo before selling my first magazine story. If the rebel spirit dwells within you, you won't wait for an invitation, you'll invade and take no hostages.

  Jeffery Taylor

  Book, Writing, Successful

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• I have no intention of selling any more of the historical Apollo 11 items in my possession for the remainder of my life. I intend to pass a portion of these items on to my children and to loan the most important items for permanent display in suitable museums around the country.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Country, Children, Museums

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• Throughout history governments have been chronically short of revenue. The reason should be clear: unlike you and me, governments do not produce useful goods and services that they can sell on the market; governments, rather than producing and selling services, live parasitically off the market and off society.

  Murray Rothbard

  Government, Like You, Reason

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• When people give away stocks based on forced selling or fear that is usually a great opportunity.

  Seth Klarman

  Opportunity, People, Giving

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• The basic concept of value to a private owner and being motivated when you're buying and selling securities by reference to intrinsic value instead of price momentum - I don't think that will ever be outdated.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Momentum, Buying

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• I had a cookie business there, with my brother, when we were growing up, called the Chip Yard, and that became the inspiration for the banana stand. My father said that he wanted us to develop a work ethic, so we'd sit there selling cookies, all day.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Brother, Growing Up, Father

  Source: collider.com

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• I do voiceovers, but being on-camera and selling something? I wasn't really interested. And then I thought, well, wait a minute. Everybody's selling something. When you turn on the tube... And then if you go to Europe or Asia, everyone is selling something. All the guys that don't want to be seen selling something here are selling something there. So I thought what the hell?

  John Slattery

  Europe, Guy, Waiting

  Source: collider.com

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• The same with the mortgage brokers that were selling people mortgages they couldn't afford. We shouldn't pay them on each mortgage they write. They should have what they call "skin in the game," where they've got to reimburse us if the guy who sold the mortgage defaults.

  Richard Thaler

  Writing, Should Have, Games

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Is there a market for somebody selling a credit card that helps people pay down their balances? I think the question is yes. But it would have to be sold by a bank that's really willing to invest in being a trusted partner with its consumers, because they will make less money on each consumer.

  Richard Thaler

  Thinking, People, Balance

  "Big Think Interview With Richard Thaler". bigthink.com. June 19, 2009.

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• Always look for forced urgent selling.

  Seth Klarman

  Looks, Urgent

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• We have a higher percentage of the intelligentsia engaged in buying and selling pieces of paper and promoting trading activity than in any past era. A lot of what I see now reminds me of Sodomand Gomorrah. You get activity feeding on itself, envy and imitation. It has happened in the past that there came bad consequences.

  Charlie Munger

  Past, Envy, Pieces

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• I knew a guy who had $5 million and owned his house free and clear. But he wanted to make a bit more money to support his spending, so at the peak of the internet bubble he was selling puts on internet stocks. He lost all of his money and his house and now works in a restaurant. It's not a smart thing for the country to legalize gambling [in the stock market] and make it very accessible.

  Charlie Munger

  Country, Smart, Gambling

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• I wonder... if the Republican Party really wants to be branded right now as the party of tax cuts and torture? I mean that's what they're selling.

  Chris Matthews

  Party, Mean, Cutting

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• I don't care at all about the mainstream; I don't care about popularity contests; I don't care about who's got the biggest-selling album; and I don't care about glossy production.

  Phil Anselmo

  Albums, Care, Popularity

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

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• I'm not interested in selling out my career for a big paycheck. I would love to live a little more comfortably, but it is very important for me to try and maintain my soul and integrity as a filmmaker in as big of a way as possible.

  Daryl Wein

  Integrity, Careers, Soul

  Source: collider.com

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• It wasn't that I amassed it with aims of selling it and becoming a rich man. My personality demanded that I be surrounded by the best examples of the world's art.

  Hermann Goring

  Art, Men, Personality

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• [the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm.

  Jesse Ventura

  Political, Buying, Politician

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