Selling Something Quotes

• When a consumer derives value - especially from something that was given to him for free - he becomes the best kind of evangelist.

  Mitch Joel

  Kind, Selling, Given

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• Listening, Testing, Coding, Designing. That's all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.

  Kent Beck

  Design, Listening, Different

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• A living is made, Mr Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year.Yes, sir! And a million ismade by producing something that everybody needs every day.You artists produce something that nobody needs at any time.

  Thornton Wilder

  Time, Artist, Years

  1954 The Matchmaker, act 1.

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• Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. If this is true, or if you are one of the people who believe this is true, then the one universal way to enjoy life is still the same, which is to learn to be grateful that it is not worse!!

  William Goldman

  Gratitude, Pain, Believe

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• Don't try to be all things to all people. Concentrate on selling something unique that you know there is a need for, offer competitive pricing and good customer service.

  Lillian Vernon

  Unique, People, Trying

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• I was doing a lot of web design at the time. And anybody that has an agent thinks, "Why do I need an agent?" Maybe it's a little different as an actor - of course you need an agent - but any kind of agency that's selling something for you, you think, "Why can't I sell this myself? It doesn't make sense."

  Jeff Vespa

  Thinking, Agency, Design

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I do voiceovers, but being on-camera and selling something? I wasn't really interested. And then I thought, well, wait a minute. Everybody's selling something. When you turn on the tube... And then if you go to Europe or Asia, everyone is selling something. All the guys that don't want to be seen selling something here are selling something there. So I thought what the hell?

  John Slattery

  Europe, Guy, Waiting

  Source: collider.com

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• You can't make money without selling something real. You can't make something real without first imagination manifesting itself in your head. You can't have imagination without surrendering yourself to an idea that you want to create something of value to other human beings.

  James Altucher

  Real, Ideas, Imagination

  "10 Reasons To Quit Your Job This Year" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2013.

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• If you're selling something on Craiglist, it's never a good idea to end the description with, May have lice.

  Dana Gould

  Ideas, Lice, May

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• We all look in the mirror and see us a little blonder or a little thinner or a little younger, whatever that ideal might be and most of the people that I'm photographing are selling something, you know whether they're on the front of an album cover or a magazine or they're a corporate person ready to switch companies or a doctor selling a skincare line... so I want to help them achieve that.

  Carol Friedman

  Doctors, Mirrors, People

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.

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• Anybody that says different is selling something.

  William Goldman

  Different, Selling

  The Princess Bride ch. 5 (1973)

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• How can you ennoble the spirit when you are selling something as inconsequential as a face cream?

  Anita Roddick

  Faces, Spirit, Selling

  "And this time, it's personal" by Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2007.

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• Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it.

  Scott Cohen

  Issues, Creative, Selling

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• Everyone lives by selling something.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Business, Marketing

  'Across the Plains' (1892) 'Beggars' pt. 3

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• Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Funny, Smile, Trust

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Burnt Offerings: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.327, Penguin

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• If a man smiles all the time, he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Life, Smile

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• You send me all these roses. Every time I think the last bouquet has arrived, finally, another turns up. I’m running out of vases. I didn’t know roses came in so many colors. You say they’re the perfect symbols of love because they have thorns and love is pain. I say life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. And you don’t get it. You say you love me, but you don’t speak my language. You don’t even realize I’m an orchid girl.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Girl, Running, Pain

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• Because you’re such a good salesman, and if you go work for a company, they’re going to use you as a salesman. If you’re going to be a salesman, you might as well be selling something worthwhile, like education

  Randy Pausch

  Use, Might, Selling

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'

  Carey Mulligan

  Mitzvah, Bars, Red

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• I only make records when I feel I have something to say. I'm not interested in releasing music just for the sake of selling something. Sade is not a brand.

  Sade Adu

  Records, Sake, Selling

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• Life is pain...anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something

  Christopher Paolini

  Pain, Life Is, Selling

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• Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

  William Goldman

  Life, Pain, Selling

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