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Sales isn’t just the act of giving; it's the art of uncovering genuine interests amid the noise, forging connections that transform contacts into actionable faith.
Author:
Alex Mercier
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Sales aren’t just about numbers; they're woven into the fabric of trust, where every stitch is a connection that elevates mutual growth.
Author:
Alexetna Minkowitz
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Every sale is an invitation to converse, where trust writes the fine print of possibilities.
Author:
Lena Albright
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Sales are not just about closing deals; they're connections in orchestrating a conversation until clarity compels commitment.
Author:
Jordan Finn
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In navigating the seas of commerce, remember each inquiry is not just a question but a vessel carrying hope—yours as much as theirs.
Author:
Elena Vate
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Success is in relationship to aligning sales efforts under a passed
Author:
Mary Collins
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The people that are running the bulk of the comic shops in North America aren't business people and they don't understand sales. They don't understand good product.
Author:
Rob Walton
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There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers.
Author:
Andrzej Wajda
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Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain.
Author:
William Vickrey
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You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey... I got a long career, I'm still young and I'm trying to bring really good music.
Author:
Obie Trice
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The income from sales now covers the expense of materials but I expect this to improve.
Author:
Mike Thompson
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If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.
Author:
Robert Strauss
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Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.
Author:
W. Stone
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We have had more sales for this year's grand prix than any other, and we have been helped in that by the fact that Jenson had 10 podiums last season and looks like a winner. It is good for British motor racing if he is there and doing well.
Author:
Jackie Stewart
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'The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales.
Author:
Howard Stern
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Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.
Author:
Nicholas Sparks
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In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing.
Author:
Peter Sotos
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Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.
Author:
Sidney Sheldon
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Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales.
Author:
Michael Schudson
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Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term.
Author:
Michael Schudson
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Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.
Author:
Phyllis Schlafly
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Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.
Author:
Phyllis Schlafly
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I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
Author:
R. Salvatore
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Kids just don't read any more. They spend much more time with video games. It's just hard to get kids to read anything. Book sales have dropped dramatically, too. I think 90% of the books are bought only by 5% of the US population.
Author:
Stan Sakai
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We initially targeted pager networks, which have been suffering for the last decade due to cell phone sales.
Author:
David Rose
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I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.
Author:
Andy Rooney
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I think the average citizen is going to see no less than a $1,500 or more increase in what it's going to cost for basic living next year,... Taking sales tax off food isn't going to take care of all of that, but I think it's a way that we can help.
Author:
Ann Robinson
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So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff.
Author:
Adam Rich
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Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares.
Author:
Rosser Reeves
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We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.
Author:
Orville Redenbacher
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The record industry is still pissed off that other people are making money off their business, even if it promotes their products and increases their sales. I think they're still mad about radio.
Author:
Jonathan Potter
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It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle.
Author:
Gary Oldman
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Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today.
Author:
Randy Neugebauer
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Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and home sales hit record levels from 2003 through 2005.
Author:
Randy Neugebauer
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Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted?
Author:
Alva Myrdal
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At St. Francis de Sales in Atlanta, we do not have an organ. We do not have rehearsals during the week. We do not have a professional choir.
Author:
Richard Morris
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However, if I can expand this to Top Cow or Avatar I'm helping the sales, however small, on my Marvel books because I'm almost certain to pick up some new readers.
Author:
Mark Millar
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Eastern Washington families and businesses should be able to deduct every penny of state and local sales tax they pay throughout the year from their federal tax bill, especially when people in most states are deducting their state income taxes.
Author:
Cathy McMorris
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Sporting goods sales have suffered because Americans have become too sedentary.
Author:
Mike May
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For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sales. I think that happens with other kinds of disabilities and products and that is something that is being realized more and more.
Author:
Richard Masur
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We have reduced sales tax on food. Now we want it eliminated.
Author:
Joe Manchin
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I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence.
Author:
Bernard Liautaud
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Hard Day's Night was one of those great films that will never happen again to anyone in their lifetime. UA were in profit before we'd even finished shooting - The advance sales on the album - the film was out before the album was out was more than it cost UA to make the film.
Author:
Richard Lester
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The alliance with air Berlin is attractive for me. I can use the whole sales network of the air Berlin and 24 percent of my own airline at air Berlin sold.
Author:
Niki Lauda
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Actually, no, because awards don't spark sales as much as you'd think.
Author:
Chantal Kreviazuk
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I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days, which was the 1960s, the institutional salesman was making about $100,000 a year. I thought that was just an enormous amount of money.
Author:
Henry Kravis
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Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.
Author:
David Knopfler
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
Author:
Calvin Klein
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If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
Author:
Henry Kissinger
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The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.
Author:
Alan Keyes
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A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.
Author:
Vernon Jordan
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I never really paid attention to sales until the second record.
Author:
Daniel Johns
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Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.
Author:
William Jenkins
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It's absolutely absurd to even consider voting on Sunday alcohol sales. I am opposed to alcohol period. It doesn't do anybody any good in the long run. It's a dangerous drug.
Author:
John Hunter
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Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student.
Author:
Patricia Heaton
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Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.
Author:
Stephen Hawking
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We were not given any statistics as to how many records were pressed on the blue label. I used to ask Bob Shad how we were going to get paid from record sales and what I got for an answer was not to worry about the business end of the deal.
Author:
Phil Harris
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Let me respond with a few points, the first being that all immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, cigarette taxes, every tax when they make a purchase.
Author:
Luis Gutierrez
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As I said in my state of the state address, we can no longer rely on gaming and sales taxes to pay our way. Indian gaming next door in California is eroding our major industry in Nevada.
Author:
Kenny Guinn
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When you have a very hot single there is no reason why it can't drive album sales. People fall off and come back on. I'm looking forward to coming back on with a vengeance.
Author:
Justin Guarini
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The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.
Author:
Norman Granz
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Hitman does well and it certainly does well enough to survive, but at the same time I don't want to involve the character into the DC Universe even if it meant more sales, to the point where we sort of upset the balance that we have at the moment.
Author:
Garth Ennis
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With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that.
Author:
Jo Emerson
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I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year.
Author:
Michael Easley
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Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.
Author:
Bill Delahunt
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Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.
Author:
Bill Delahunt
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We still have pretty good sales, especially for the art books.
Author:
Glenn Danzig
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Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace.
Author:
Rick Danko
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The very quick and high sales of the book caught us off guard, but fortunately we got the second edition from the printers at the end of last week and the shops should now be stocked again.
Author:
Hansie Cronje
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I didn't really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest.
Author:
Tom Cochrane
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Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.
Author:
Chris Chocola
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The success of this album is very much in question. Who knows where it's going to go? My being a Spice Girl is no guarantee of anything, although I hope it'll benefit the sales.
Author:
Melanie Chisholm
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McDonald's is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to deliver admirable sales.
Author:
Jim Cantalupo
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Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.
Author:
William Burroughs
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A good ad which is not run never produces sales.
Author:
Leo Burnett
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
Author:
Jack Bruce
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But either way you cannot deny the sales and what we did.
Author:
Steve Brown
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We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.
Author:
Sherrod Brown
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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.
Author:
Dorthea Brande
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Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.
Author:
William Bernbach
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The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state.
Author:
Craig Benson
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In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance.
Author:
Bo Bennett
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I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation.
Author:
Bo Bennett
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There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks.
Author:
Michael Barnes
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Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.
Author:
John Barlow
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Well, the sales of our products clearly demonstrate their value to businesses and to individuals.
Author:
Jim Barksdale
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Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive.
Author:
Jean Auel
