Selling Quotes

To me, 'selling out' means everyone bought a ticket.

This is a business, the direct selling, that bizarrely works best when times are bad.

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.

I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.

I guess the quality that makes one write poetry keeps one from selling it.

Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.

I went out and got little jobs. I was selling candy as a teenager, selling newspapers. But as I got older, I didn't want to sell that anymore. I wanted to make more money.

We begin selling ourselves on what we want to do rather than what we ought to do. We listen to ourselves until we believe our own lies, and the we opt for happiness.

It's very gratifying that someone likes what you're selling.

I have come to believe that politicians are in the business of 'marketing' their product to the public, by exaggerating threats and over-selling government solutions.

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.

We are in for a fiesta of default, repossession, and distress selling of suburban property, much of which will lose its presumed usefulness and monetary value in an energy-scarce economy.

No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do and I do want to continue selling records. And I would, eventually, quite like some money.

Combine the dual qualities of empathy and ambitionin every sales relationship.

Describe your product in terms of what it does not in terms of what it is.

You should consider an employment change before you consider selling out.

The Democrats are very bad at selling their own product. The Republicans are geniuses at it. And I've said it before, a bad product well apologized for is superior in this country to a good product.

Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question.

I was working at eBay, so I would just troll the vintage categories, find old amps and what have you. I was buying a fair amount of stuff and playing with it and then selling it back.

I'll be selling tickets for my next tour exclusively through Jonah Lehrer. Make sure to pay cash.

You can only see your current horizon. Every time you move nearer to your desired destination, new horizons will become clear. New, previously hidden, opportunities will come into view.

Understand why you are different and how you help, recognise your target market, and give them something they might not even realise they are missing.

The first step in persuasion is to entice your target to imagine doing the thing you want them to do.

No trade will be made unless they want the thing more than they want their money.

What you deserve will be down to you, and you alone.

You swore you'd never compromise With the mystery tramp, but now you realise He's not selling any alibis As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes And say, do you want to make a deal How does it feel

Selling is essentially transference of feeling.

In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling.

Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time.

Advertising gets such a bashing from the world. At parties you are always asked, 'Aren't you just selling people things they don't want?

The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.

The Central Bank is constantly purchasing, purchasing and selling and vice versa - this is their job.

Selling is nothing more than asking questions and waiting for an answer.

Buy whatever kids are selling on card tables in their front yard.

I have no trouble selling out—I’m a benevolent hack, in a certain way—but I want to pander for something I believe in.

Retail is selling things that don't come back to customers who do.

Mr. President I am here to tell you we are not buying what you are selling in 2012.

Examples of selling of ideas are portrayed in consulting or paid advice, as the pricing of intellectual property is market driven.

You don't get great at selling in a day. You get great at selling day by day.

I was a caddy. I also worked as a bouncer, selling Christmas trees at Frank's Nursery and before that, selling what they normally sell.

I've done everything. Selling door-to-door fire extinguishers... In bars, I used to repair those machines that have 10 different buttons on them to spray club soda and seltzer.

I know a lot of people who are 12 and doing things they shouldnt be doing. Whether youre an actress or a singer, its always the sexier ones that are selling more tickets or selling more albums.

I feel like so many people get into that place where creating for someone else is selling out and it is so not about that. It is a stupid, kind of pretentious way of thinking.

Selling is never about convincing. It is always about helping.

I mean, I knew I wasn't a nice person, but what did I do in my past life to deserve this? I must have hit a bus full of nuns while driving a stolen car on my way to selling drugs to schoolchildren!

They're selling postcards of the hanging.

It’s hard to imagine the revenue from selling the prints will cover the cost of lost goodwill.

Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business.

I make an embarrassing amount of money for a borderline Marxist, just by selling 100,000 records. I don't sell millions of records, and I don't need to.

She was running from a fat man selling salvation in his hand.