Selling Quotes - Page 2

• I sometimes wish I had never had to sell a painting. Every painting you make represents the time it was made and how you were feeling and what your influences were... You are never going to feel that way again, so you can never repeat it.

  Peter Doig

  Feelings, Wish, Way

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• My work is my work and I will attempt to sell it for what it is.

  Donald Lambert

  Sells

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• Selling is not a static activity.

  Scott Kahn

  Static, Activity

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• The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

  Abraham Maslow

  Inspirational, Men, Race

  As quoted in "Road Signs for Success" y Jim Whitt, (p. 61), 1993.

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• And old Dave, he'd go up to his room, y'understand, put on his green velvet slippers - I'll never forget - and pick up his phone and call the buyers, and without leaving his room, at the age of eighty-four, he made his living. And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want.

  Arthur Miller

  Men, Phones, Careers

  Arthur Miller (2015). “Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge”, p.180, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

  Antonin Scalia

  Teaching, Learning, Character

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• If your organization’s intentions transcend the mere act of selling a product or service, and it is brave enough to expose its heart and soul, people will respond. They will connect. They will like you. They will talk. They will buy.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Heart, Organization, People

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2011). “The Thank You Economy (Enhanced Edition)”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.

  Calvin Trillin

  Color, Dry, Natural

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• The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.

  Bill Joy

  Next Steps, Disposable, Next

  "Creating One Huge Computer". Interview with Spencer Reiss, www.wired.com. July 15, 1998.

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• Nobody who bought a drill actually wanted a drill. They wanted a hole. Therefore, if you want to sell drills, you should advertise information about making holes – NOT information about drills!

  Perry Marshall

  Business, Entrepreneur, Want

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• Unrequited love–plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing–turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, couldn't use, would never miss. Unrequited love was deciding to be useless, and I could never abide uselessness.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Unrequited Love, Boys, Missing

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• There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

  Beverly Sills

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Conquering an Enemy Called Average". Book by John Mason, 1996.

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

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Witty, Funny Inspirational, Government

  P J O'Rourke (1992). “Parliament of Whores-Open Mark”, Vintage Books USA

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Business, Marketing, Too Much

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Essays and Lectures: Top Essays”, p.75, 谷月社

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

  Sinclair Lewis

  Funny, Money, Humor

  "Gideon Planish". Book by Sinclair Lewis, 1943.

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• I don't think the market can keep going up. In the U.S., we see real estate not going up.. houses are selling at lower prices. You can't have anything going up 10 percent to 20 percent to 30 percent indefinitely.

  Eli Broad

  Real, Thinking, House

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• It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much.

  Eddie Campbell

  Work Out, Want, Too Much

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• We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art.

  Michael Korda

  Art, Book, Shoes

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• It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs - that way starvation lies.

  Claude Monet

  Lying, Would Be, Asking

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• Canvases between 8 centimetres and 1 metre are priced around 25,000 francs. In the past I used to sell them from between 50 to 100 francs at the most. I have to say... that I feel somewhat embarrassed at this admission.

  Claude Monet

  Past, Used, Embarrassed

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• As a salesperson, you will be judged by your ability to keep a stalled conversation moving along briskly.

  Harvey Mackay

  Moving, Conversation, Ability

  Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin

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• As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, People, Buying

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• I hope always to earn my living by my art without having ever deviated by even a hair's breadth from my principles... to please anyone or to sell more easily.

  Gustave Courbet

  Art, Hair, Principles

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• Like adverts, today's works of art aim to create a brand, even if they have no product to sell except themselves.

  Roger Scruton

  Art, Today, Aim

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• It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Painting, Difficult, Has Beens

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