Selling Quotes - Page 14

• Kanye West talks about being Axl Rose, being Kurt Cobain, being Jim Morrison. Adam Levine is selling acne ointment to teenagers.

  Ian Astbury

  Teenager, Rose, Acne

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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• We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property, it doesn't leave a whole lot of time for non-market values and non-market activity so that love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

  Cornel West

  Justice, Buying, Love And Trust

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• You know, the art films would usually be more, I mean the exploitation movies would usually be more lurid, but not that much more. I mean, actually back in those days that was what foreign films had. They had sex, they were selling Laura Antonelli.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Art, Sex, Mean

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• When you're selling a product or service, you don't have - it doesn't have to be absolutely perfect, although I've provided language that is. When you're a politician, one wrong word changes the entire - changes the meaning of something.

  Frank Luntz

  Perfect, Language, Politician

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I think record cover sleeves really led towards, but at the same time the album as we know it didn't come into being until mainly after the Second World War because record labels realized they'd be able to make a lot more money putting all the singles of an artist onto one album and selling the whole album as a kind of a concept.

  DJ Spooky

  War, Artist, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I would not have used the phrase "I'm selling you" because even though that's exactly what you're doing, when you tell people you're doing it - or worse yet, when you tell people "I'm not here to sell you anything," they automatically assume that that's exactly what you are here to do.

  Frank Luntz

  People, Phrases, Assuming

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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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• If you have information that a company is not as good as its stock market valuation, you don't have a way to sell that stock unless you already own it. And so that information doesn't get incorporated in the company's stock price as fast if you don't allow short selling.

  Robert F. Engle

  Information, Way, Stock Price

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Allowing short selling is allowing people to sell - instead of having to buy the stock and then sell it, which doesn't do much; allow them to sell it, and then buy it. In which case they can express that information and the idea is that you would get more accurate valuation of companies by letting people express both their positive information and their negative information through either long or short selling.

  Robert F. Engle

  Ideas, Long, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Sellers who've embraced social media are creating new opportunities that totally bypass traditional sales channels... It's about good selling - using all the tools that are available to you today.

  Jill Konrath

  Opportunity, Media, Creating

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• 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, Given, Consumers

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• Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format.

  Ian MacKaye

  Years, Records, Different

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I think you have to ask yourself, what is the point of the script? What is the script selling? Because all scripts are political, every story is political. It either challenges or reinforces some schism or stereotype. So what is the project going to say at the end of the day? What does it tell you about the world, or what does it challenge in terms of your world?

  Susan Sarandon

  Thinking, Political, Challenges

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• I am very generous with my dealers in terms of the art that they have of mine. They all have a very good selection of work that they can work with. And it is up to them to find the dealers. I don't interfere with their selling.

  Robert Barry

  Art, Very Good, Term

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• The whole having records and selling records and being on TV, that was something that I didn't ever think would be for me. I thought that would be for other people. All I wanted to do was make a living playing the drums.

  Phil Collins

  Thinking, People, Would Be

  "Phil Collins on his solo career, Live Aid, and The Ultimate Warrior". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. March 21, 2016.

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• 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.

  Snoop Dogg

  Jobs, Teenager, Want

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. October 7, 2011.

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• So, you're seeing the Rolls-Royces and the Bentley's still selling for big prices. You're seeing jewelry still selling, art works at auction. There was a diamond that sold for I think 38 million, 48 million, something like that just a week ago. So prices are back up to their highs, getting stronger and more and more people seem to have more and more money to spend.

  Robin Leach

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• 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.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Illustration, Lasts, Vacuums

  "Reese Witherspoon on How She's Shaking Up Hollywood, and Why She Feels Like Gloria Steinem Told Her to Do Legally Blonde". Interview With Jennifer Siebel Newsom, www.glamour.com. October 29, 2015.

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

  Sarah Lafleur

  Fashion, Real, Retail

  "BYT Style Interview: Mémé LAFLEUR". Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 8, 2012.

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• The reason why rappers are living in - you know, driving in Mercedes-Benz's and living in neighborhoods is because they're selling their music, not just to the black community, but to the white community.

  Eric Bolling

  Rapper, White, Community

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I love to do fashion. I always put fashion in all of my storytelling because that's what I am, but I'm not selling clothes, I'm telling a story.

  Patricia Field

  Fashion, Clothes, Stories

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I had been a fashion photographer for over ten years, but I'd always been dissatisfied with what I was doing. It was all about selling people, and I got disheartened by the whole industry.

  Giles Duley

  Fashion, Years, People

  Interview with Lisa Rueff, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

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• I think "God" is an off-putting word. I don't think there's a name for this. I think it's a presence that is best for us, but unfortunately, it can't intervene if we don't ask it, and religion has us talking to the wall because the god that religion is selling isn't the reality.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Wall, Reality, Thinking

  "Singer, Songwriter, Boss: Sinéad O'Connor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Many animal rescue organizations hit with a hard-core, heartbreaking message. Their videos and stories can become difficult for average people to watch. By taking a more positive, heartwarming approach to animal rescue, I've been able to engage people and keep them engaged for years. Instead of selling the agony and misery - and sadly, there is no shortage of that - I start with the happy endings. I work backwards so the first message they get is joy and success due to their involvement. Opening the mind with humor and joy gets the rescue message in that much deeper.

  Elayne Boosler

  Animal, Average, Years

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• Whatever you do, whatever you're working with, whether it's manual work or talking to people or buying or selling, every little thing encompasses the power and simplicity of presence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Talking, People, Simplicity

  "The Awakening of Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Paula Coppel, www.eckharttolle.com.

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