Selling Quotes

The most important advance in selling for many years

My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.

I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.

Remember: A best-selling book usually follows a simple rule, It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told; not, It's a wonderfully told story.

No one's playing records anymore, so find your favorite and frame it, then get rid of the rest - try selling or donating them.

It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.

Anybody who says they don't want to be seen on a show which has millions of people watching it at one time when they're in the business of selling records is a bit silly.

Boys, boys, boys. Boys buy the little spinny tops, they but the action figures, girls buy princesses, we're not selling princesses.

When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily - marvellous.

Ford can't sell trucks currently, and GM is not selling as many cars as it would like to. That is a problem of product and pricing, not a systemic problem of abandonment by consumers.

Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant mixture of aspiration and effort and compromise.

I don't know if there will ever be an ideal way of selling an original picture. Because everything you're doing, you're inventing.

It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes, and then buying an insurance policy on those cars.

The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas.

[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.

I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.

His Unique Selling Position was to make the world work for 100% of humanity. .

Albums aren't even selling anymore and there's a reason for that. Record companies are just signing single and ring tone deals and it doesn't seem like they're focusing on albums.

For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren't a lot of profits.

A [news] magazine printed a [photo-illustration] of me in a ball gown holding a vacuum cleaner, saying I started a company. Last time I checked, I'm not selling vacuums. It was very sexist.

Most people assume that a record shop's success lies in selling records. In fact, Virgin's success both in mail order and the record shops lay in skill at buying records.

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.

The journey from not knowing to knowing was his work. He was selling his desire to learn about a subject.

I feel like every movie is definitely the last one that I've had my moment; that I'm going to be selling autographs at malls.

They're selling razor blades and mirrors in the street Pray that when I'm coming down you'll be alseep If I ever hurt you your revenge will be so sweet Because I'm scum And I'm your son I come undone

I've watched people who were better actors than me disappear, and they're selling insurance now.

A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.

I wouldn't dream of selling my work. I give them to friends, to charities.

People don't understand what term "selling out" means. To me selling out means if I were to stop doing this and go work for McDonald's then I would sell out.

It was a tough film ["Selling Isobel"] to make anyway, because we had limited resources.

[The Raindance film festival] is literally the first time we've ever screened the movie ["Selling Isobel"] to anyone, and people are a little bit traumatised by it.

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

American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.

By selling directly to customers, real women, the brand is able to avoid significant retail mark-ups that typically exist in high end fashion.

If the election had turned out differently, I could be the one overseeing the signing of bailout checks and Vice President Biden could be on the road selling his book 'Going Rogaine.'

I don't plan on selling out. I mean, it's nice to get a dinner reservation ahead of other people, but when it comes down to it, the most important thing to me is the actual work.

The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a script. I was a nobody coming off a plane to read for a new show.

I want to be in a position where I feel comfortable selling an idea.

It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories.

Always look for forced urgent selling.

Buying's easier, selling's hard - [it's] hard to know when to get out.

Once I started selling scripts for a great deal of money - action scripts, no less, which people tend to pooh-pooh anyway - then I started to get some backlash. Which I didn't mind.

In the '60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking a major career detour in 1975, when he opened a store selling chocolate chip cookies.

There's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.

When my books came out, they started selling but they started selling at a relatively consistent but low pace. And they started to pick up the pace.

His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.

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

I don't know where the hell I'll be in 5 years. Maybe I'll be producing movies maybe I'll be on a corner selling apples. I don't know, but I'm having a hell of a lot of fun.

Facebook stock continues to plummet. People started selling once they found out their mom bought it too.

Cain understands domestic issues because he had experience selling pizza; and he understands international issues because pizza is Italian.