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• One of the things which make any company successful, in particular the Home Depot, was that we understood and catered to the customer. If it didn't sell, it didn't make a difference what we thought or our research told us. They told us if it was successful by buying it or not.

  Bernard Marcus

  Educational, Home, Successful

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• Lots of ambitious work by young artists ends up in a dumpster after its warehouse debut. So an unknown artist's big glass vitrine holding a rotting cow's head covered by maggots and swarms of buzzing flies may be pretty unsellable. Until the artist becomes a star. Then he can sell anything he touches .

  Charles Saatchi

  Stars, Ambition, Artist

  Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

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• As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Beauty, Real, Views

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• He cold, he dope, he might sell coke He always in the air but he never fly coach

  Nicki Minaj

  Flirty, Dope, Air

  Song: Super Bass, Album: Pink Friday

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• Buzz so big I could probably sell a blank disc.

  Drake

  Humble, Cocky, Buzz

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• A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Gossip, Honor

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• The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Justice, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Adam Starchild (2002). “Character and Heroism”, p.69, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• I don't understand why prostitution is illegal, Selling is legal, f***ing is legal. So why isn't it legal to sell f***ing? Why should it be illegal to sell something that's legal to give away?

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Giving, Selling

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• When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Money, Men, Devil

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1897). “The original Plymouth pulpit”

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• I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.

  John Cusack

  Money, Careers, Say Anything

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• One way to sell a consumer something in the future is simply to get his or her permission in advance.

  Seth Godin

  Marketing, Way, Permission

  Seth Godin (2012). “Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sleep, Corn, Diligence

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.249

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• If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Business, Night, Waiting

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• The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the down side is some of the things... for real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the information isn't true or to see pictures that aren't really me, or for them to be able to sell these things, that's one of the down sides, I think.

  Denise Richards

  Real, Nice, Technology

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• I can't go on anymore bad dates. I would rather be home alone than out with some guy who sells socks on the internet.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Home, Frustration, Guy

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• Probably the single-most concrete and substantive thing an American, young American, could do to lower our carbon footprint is not turning off the lights or driving a Prius, it's having fewer kids...we'll soon see a market in baby-avoidance carbon credits similar to efforts to sell CO2 credits for avoiding deforestation.

  Andrew Revkin

  Baby, Kids, Carbon Footprint

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• Publishing is the only industry I can think of where most of the employees spend most of their time stating with great self-assurance that they don't know how to do their jobs. "I don't know how to sell this," they explain, frowning, as though it's your fault. "I don't know how to package this. I don't know what the market is for this book. I don't know how we're going to draw attention to this." In most occupations, people try to hide their incompetence; only in publishing is it flaunted as though it were the chief qualification for the job.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Jobs, Book, Thinking

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• Anbody can make an easy deal, but only a true agent can sell a dog.

  Irving Paul Lazar

  Dog, Agents, Easy

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• "I can't sleep" answered the nervous one.
  "Why not?" asked the friend.
  "I am carrying so much cotton that I can't sleep thinking about. It is wearing me out. What can I do?"
  "Sell down to the sleeping point", answered the friend.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Sleep, Thinking, Why Not

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• I never hesitate to tell a man that I am bullish or bearish. But I do not tell people to buy or sell any particular stock. In a bear market all stocks go down and in a bull market they go up.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Men, People, Investing

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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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• 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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• 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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