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• I did precisely the wrong thing. The cotton showed me a loss and I kept it. The wheat showed me a profit and I sold it out. Of all the speculative blunders there are few greater than trying to average a losing game. Always sell what shows you a loss and keep what shows you a profit.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Loss, Average, Games

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• If you can't sleep at night because of your stock market position, then you have gone too far. If this is the case, then sell your position down to the sleeping level.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Sleep, Night, Gone

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• I think everyone should sell other people's stuff and their own stuff. I think everyone, almost everyone should mix those two business models.

  Jeffrey Walker

  Thinking, Two, People

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• 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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• I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell.

  Omar Khayyam

  Wine, Half, Stuff

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.221, University of Virginia Press

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• The great danger to the consumer is the monopoly -whether private or governmental. His most effective protection is free competition at home and free trade throughout the world. The consumer is protected from being exploited by one seller by the existence of another seller from whom he can buy and who is eager to sell to him. Alternative sources of supply protect the consumer far more effectively than all the Ralph Naders of the world.

  Milton Friedman

  Home, Competition, Alternatives

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• One day, because they realize for some reason or other that they must stop credit expansion, the banks do stop creating new credit to lend. Then the firms that have expanded cannot get credit to pay for the factors of production necessary for the completion of the investment projects which they have already committed themselves. Because they cannot pay their bills, they sell off their inventories cheap. Then comes the panic, the breakdown. And the depression starts.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Creating, One Day, Expansion

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• Government, on their part, are much disposed to favor the establishment of these large companies, and to give them privileges to the detriment of their rivals, and of the public, with the expectation of receiving from them loans, either gratuitous or at a low rate which these never refuse. It is thus that the one sells its protection and the other buys it; and this is already a very great evil.

  Antoine Destutt de Tracy

  Philosophy, Government, Giving

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• Set stretch goals. Don't ever settle for mediocrity. The key to stretch is to reach for more than you think is possible. Don't sell yourself short by thinking that you'll fail.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Thinking, Keys

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• I ain't guilty cause, even though I sell rocks
  Yo sound the bells school is in sucker

  MC Hammer

  School, Rocks, Hip Hop

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• ...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.

  Josh Billings

  Horse, Virtue, Discourse

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• Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The money power has grown so great that the issue of all issues is whether the corporation shall rule this country or the country shall again rule the corporations.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Country, Money, Women

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• The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it or tranquilizing it with new toys. The idea is to render us passive so that they can exercise their power to sell us a bunch of stuff we mostly don't need and mostly don't want.

  Richard Schickel

  Lying, Exercise, Media

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• If I can sell tickets to my movies like Red Sonja or Last Action Hero, you know I can sell just about anything.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Funny Life, Hero, Red

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• Don't sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.

  Ben Feldman

  Motivational Sales, Inspirational Sales, Great Sales

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• It just seems like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it's so sad that there are so many musicians who don't want to change the world.

  Moby

  Change, Thinking, Musician

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