Sells Quotes - Page 25

• Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

  Studs Terkel

  Men, People, Pieces

  Studs Terkel (1975). “Working”, HarperCollins

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• Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.

  Ann Patchett

  Art, Writing, Discipline

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• Being a champion opens lots of doors—I'd like to get a real estate license, maybe sell insurance.

  Mike Tyson

  Real, Doors, Champion

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• I am determined to defend my rights and maintain my freedom or sell my life in the attempt.

  Nathanael Greene

  Life, Freedom, Rights

  Nathanael Greene, Richard K. Showman, Rhode Island Historical Society (2005). “The papers of General Nathanael Greene”

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• I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.

  Thelonious Monk

  Party, House, Prohibition

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• Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. “Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality to be reached,” say the Vedas. “Sell all that thou hast and give to poor, and follow me,” says the Christ. So all great saints and prophets have expressed it, and have carried it out in their lives. How can great spirituality come without renunciation?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving, Secret, Vedas

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1589, Manonmani Publishers

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• One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

  Peter Gabriel

  Artist, Ideas, Pieces

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• Every morning I wake up and I tell myself this: It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. I don't know when exactly I started giving myself this daily pep talk--or why. It sounds like a twelve-step mantra and I'm not in Anything Anonymous, though to read some of the crap they write about me, you'd think I should be. I have the kind of life a lot of people would probably sell a kidney to just experience a bit of. But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.

  Gayle Forman

  Morning, Writing, Thinking

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.8, Penguin

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• The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Giving, Glory, Poor

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• At IBM everybody sells! Every employee has been trained to think that the customer comes first - everybody from the CEO, to the people in finance, to the receptionists, to those who work in manufacturing.

  Buck Rodgers

  Work, Thinking, People

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• A. T. Stewart started life with a dollar and fifty cents. This merchant prince began by calling at the doors of houses in order to sell needles, thread and buttons. He soon found the people did not want them, and his small stock was thrown back on his hands. Then he said wisely, "I'll not buy any more of these goods, but I'll go and ask people what they do want." Thereafter he studied the needs and desires of people, found out just what they most wanted, endeavored to meet those wants, and became the greatest business man of his time.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Business, Men, Hands

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• How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!

  Joseph Joubert

  Growing Up, Pain, People

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• Stupidity has made enormous progress. It's a sun so shining that we can no longer look at it directly. Thanks to communication media, it's no longer the same, it's nourished by other myths, it sells extremely well, it has ridiculed good sense and it's spreading its terrifying power.

  Ennio Flaiano

  Communication, Media, Shining

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• A pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons: First, many in Wall Street (a community in which quality control is not prized) will sell investors anything they will buy. Second, speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest.

  Warren Buffett

  Wall, Lying, Knowledge

  Chairman's Letter, www.berkshirehathaway.com. February 28, 2001.

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• Liberals state that many teenagers would rather sell crack for $100 an hour than to flip hamburgers for a minimum wage. Using the same liberal logic, you might think it would make more sense for the average middle-class worker to rob banks rather than work a forty-hour week? The reason why most people, rich and poor, do not commit crimes because they know it is wrong to do so.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Work, Teenager, Thinking

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• I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more.

  Nat King Cole

  Business, Work, People

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• The average American salesmen keeps 33 men and women at work - 33 people producing the product he sells . . . and is responsible for the livelihood of 130 people.

  Robert A. Whitney

  Men, Average, People

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• People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays.

  Louisa May Alcott

  People, Want, Moral

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.534, Delphi Classics

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• Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know its nature. To love money is to known and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money - and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Money, Work

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.73, Penguin

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• How is it that we have created an economic system that tells us it is cheaper to destroy the earth and exhaust its people than to nurture them both? Is it rational to have an pricing system which discounts the future and sells off the past? How did we create an economic system that confused capital liquidation with income?

  Paul Hawken

  Confused, Past, People

  Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins (2013). “Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution”, p.321, Routledge

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• I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

  Larry Hagman

  Education, Book, Writing

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• Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Money, Giving

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.45, Fortress Press

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• (Obama's) a nice person, he's very articulate this is what's been used against him, but he couldn't sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic.

  Dan Rather

  Nice, Racism, Flags

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• We all either work for rich people or we sell stuff to rich people, so just punishing rich people is as bad for the economy as punishing anyone. Let's not punish anyone.

  Rand Paul

  Cutting, People, Political

  "Countdown with Keith Olbermann", www.nbcnews.com. November 4, 2010.

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• To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. -Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere

  Publilius Syrus

  Acceptance, Favors, Accepting

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