Quotes on Selling

Author: Abu Bakr

The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat. That is why we must do more to open Cuba - not less.

Author: Max Baucus

Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information.

Author: Melissa Bean

I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles.

Author: Bjork

When I'm out hustling up new industries, I can offer Louisiana's many selling points. We have unmatched natural resources, a unique culture and fantastic workers.

Author: Kathleen Blanco

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.

Author: Daniel Boorstin

I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.

Author: Toni Braxton

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge.

Author: George Bush

All of the sudden the audiences started getting younger and the spread of the attendance was really wide. I think it's as a result of the records selling more that they started following our careers.

Author: John Cale

But in terms of the code by which we go to market - it's not telling kids to supersize, we're not selling them, generally, products, in the advertising we do to them.

Author: Jim Cantalupo

Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm.

Author: Jill Clayburgh

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.

Author: Hernando Cortes

I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so only if all traditional publishers had turned them down.

Author: Richard Curtis

Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again.

Author: Johnny Depp

Writers are always selling somebody out.

Author: Joan Didion

Yeah, I just have a little part in it. In the house that Brian Cox barbecued himself appears in The Ring 2; I am the real estate agent that is selling the house, and Naomi Watts comes to check out the house as part of her investigation.

Author: Gary Dole

We were at Pye Studios for half an hour so we set the gear up and we did two tracks. A month later we found out it was selling thirty thousand copies a day.

Author: Georgie Fame

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

I feel like I'd like to continue putting out records and start putting them out more rapidly than I have until now and for me if I can keep selling the records to the fans that already like me that's fine.

Author: John Frusciante

When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part of that is by making opportunities and paying decent wages.

Author: Matt Gonzalez

We don't have to go that far to sell our beer because our immediate accounts sell so much. Places that sold 10 cases before, now they're selling 30.

Author: Paul Graham

After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.

Author: George Harrison

Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.

Author: Don Henley

Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.

Author: Ken Hill

I don't know how many records I'm selling.

Author: Tom Jenkinson

Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.

Author: Chuck Jones

I'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line.

Author: Robert Kirkman

During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts to private and public sector buyers.

Author: Lawrence Klein

Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesn't go by when I don't hear something wonderful that someone has made in some low-budget situation, primarily with a view to selling a few hundred copies at their concerts.

Author: David Knopfler

Not offering this kind of guarantee means that they do not believe in their product enough, and they do not care about if a salesman is over promising or over selling their product.

Author: Matthew Lesko

I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.

Author: Arthur Levitt

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

Author: Sinclair Lewis

I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself.

Author: Mary Matalin

It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked.

Author: Carolyn McCarthy

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

Author: P. O'Rourke

Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn.

Author: James Penney

Salesmanship is limitless. Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople.

Author: James Penney

The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange.

Author: William Petty

Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in.

Author: River Phoenix

Actually, we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records, yet, they treat us with tons of respect and give us some very good guidance.

Author: Adam Rich

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.

Author: Rudy Rucker

I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next.

Author: Fred Saberhagen

And now, of course this is another thing I didn't count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

I did commercials since I was 16, and that's kind of acting, depending on what you're selling.

Author: Joan Severance

I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it.

Author: Robert Sheckley

Slow, Deep And Hard was a great album, even though it was probably our least selling record.

Author: Josh Silver

Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries.

Author: Terry Southern

The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print.

Author: Daniel Starch

Every one lives by selling something.

Author: Robert Stevenson

I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.

Author: Robert Stevenson

With the players Madden is definitely king and that's probably why it's been one of the top selling games all these years and will probably continue to be.

Author: Michael Strahan

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

Author: Anthony Trollope

I would sell 2 million records, a million went to teenagers and a million went to the adults. So, when The Beatles became so popular, I lost a million to the teenagers, but I was still selling a million to the adults.

Author: Bobby Vinton

I was studying acting, going to UCLA, selling real estate on the weekends.

Author: Burt Ward

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

Author: Oscar Wilde

Well, when I was younger, in high school, I started out smoking pot. Which escalated into taking acid on a regular basis, which escalated into selling acid. And then I started, when I went to college, I started doing opiates.

Author: John Wozniak

Now as far as the organization selling drugs, no. Individuals selling drugs is something else.

Author: Chuck Zito