Sells Quotes - Page 16

• It's not funny at all that we do all that advertising for children. Why is advertising for children allowed? What possible reason can there be for having those effing adverts on TV for all this crap that's made by poor people in poor countries that we sell our children who have too much?

  Emma Thompson

  Country, Children, People

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• Work hard. Believe in yourself. It's not the publicity that sells the clothes, it's the woman.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Believe, Hard Work, Memorable

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• For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money.

  George Orwell

  Book, Writing, Giving

  George Orwell (1987). “Keep the Aspidistra Flying”, Harvill Secker

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• You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner. This is especially true when you begin to write, when you have not yet developed the tricks of interesting people on paper, when you have none of the technique which it takes time to learn. When, in short, you have only your emotions to sell.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Writing, Heart, People

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.611, Simon and Schuster

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• Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.

  P. D. James

  Writing, Nurse, Publishers

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• Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Writing, Literature, Trade

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• I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow.

  William Zinsser

  Teaching, Writing, Sound

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• Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely.

  Greg Egan

  Book, Conceited, Firsts

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• Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film; they advertise memories.

  Theodore Levitt

  Photography, Memories, Film

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• You shouldn't be pressured into trying to be thin by the fashion industry, because they only want models that are like human mannequins. They know that if we see an outfit on a mannequin in a shop window we will love it and want to buy it whatever size we are. That's why they have size zero models - they want to sell clothes. But you have to remember that it's not practical or possible for an everyday woman to look like that. Being size zero is a career in itself so we shouldn't try and be like them. It's not realistic and it's not healthy.

  Rhianna

  Fashion, Zero, Careers

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• The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up.

  Susan Cain

  Pressure, Anxious

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.31, Broadway Books

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• I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year; And you must welcome from another part Such noble moods as are not mine, my dear. No gracious weight of golden fruits to sell Have I, nor any wise and wintry thing; And I have loved you all too long and well To carry still the high sweet breast of Spring. Wherefore I say: O love, as summer goes, I must be gone, steal forth with silent drums, That you may hail anew the bird and rose When I come back to you, as summer comes. Else will you seek, at some not distant time, Even your summer in another clime.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Summer, Wise, Sweet

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2014). “Millay: Poems”, p.170, Everyman's Library

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• What was I supposed to be, growing in your womb -- assuming it was even in our womb that I was conceived? A seed of hope? A ticket purchased to ferry you from the dark? A patch for that hole you carried in your heart? If so, then I wasn't enough. I wasn't nearly enough. I was no balm to your pain, only another dead end, another burden, and you must have seen that early on. You must have realized it. But what could you do? You couldn't go down to the pawnshop and sell me.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Pain, Heart, Dark

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• Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.

  Lauren Graham

  Writing, Actors, Should

  Lauren Graham (2013). “Someday, Someday, Maybe: A Novel”, p.100, Ballantine Books

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• Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone

  Isabel Allende

  Land, Gone, Should

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• Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Don’t just brainstorm; praystorm.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Home, Writing

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• In the factory we make cosmetics. In the store we sell hope.

  Charles Revson

  Inspirational, Funny, Hope

  In A. Tobias Fire and Ice (1976) ch. 8

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• Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

  Karl Marx

  Motivational, Business, Humorous

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• Ice cubes likely sell more alcohol for the distilling industry than attractive models in cheesecake poses. The inconspicuous ice cubes often hide the invisible sell - invisible, that is, to the conscious mind.

  Wilson Bryan Key

  Business, Ice, Alcohol

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• It's hard to find things that won't sell online.

  Jeff Bezos

  Business, Digital Age, Digital Marketing

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• I told you to sell it, not give it away.

  Jerome Robbins

  Dance, Giving

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• Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.

  Og Mandino

  Congratulations, Failure, Next

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• The American poultry industry had made it possible to grow a fine-looking fryer in record time and sell it at a reasonable price, but no one mentioned that the result usually tasted like the stuffing inside of a teddy bear.

  Julia Child

  Food, Records, Poultry

  Julia Child (2009). “My Life in France”, p.173, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• If business is going to continue to sell through the decades, it must also promote an understanding of what made those products possible, what is necessary to a free market, and what our free market means to the individual liberty of each of us, to be certain that the freedoms under which this nation was born and brought to this point shall endure in the future ... for America is the product of our freedoms.

  Edward Francis Hutton

  Freedom, Mean, America

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• I know that luck has a way of happening to people who shoot high, who never sell themselves short.

  Terry Teachout

  Graduation, People, Luck

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