Selling Quotes - Page 21

• Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.

  Steve Jobs

  Song, Hours, Minutes

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.79, Prabhat Prakashan

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• I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.

  Val Kilmer

  Thinking, Function, Entity

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• I went door-to-door selling cable television subscriptions when I was in college. Not to date myself, but cable was just coming on. I had terrible territories, and they would give me $25, if I got somebody to let them come and just put the little cord in their house.

  Greg Kinnear

  College, Doors, Giving

  "Greg Kinnear Talks Thin Ice, Guest Starring on Modern Family, and Writers with Jennifer Connelly". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 17, 2012.

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• It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you're selling, and often pure, dumb luck.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Mean, Dumb, Luck

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• I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days, which was the 1960s, the institutional salesman was making about $100,000 a year. I thought that was just an enormous amount of money.

  Henry Kravis

  Years, Ties, Institutions

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• I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Dad, Father, Long

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• 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.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Christian, Texas, People

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• People want to talk about whether I have rock cred, whether I'm selling out, the theatricality, the gay stuff... Chill out! And just enjoy yourself.

  Adam Lambert

  Gay, Rocks, People

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• Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day.

  Jaron Lanier

  One Day, Might, Privacy

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• If you want to open a supermarket chain and put your face all around the globe, selling your baby and your dog, if it makes you happy, who am I to disagree, as the song goes. But it's not for me. I've always tried to keep my integrity and keep my autonomy.

  Annie Lennox

  Dog, Song, Baby

  "Question time: Annie Lennox". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2009.

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• One of the big no-nos in cyberspace is that you do not go into a social activity, a chat group or something like that, and start advertising or selling things. This etiquette rule is an attempt to separate one's social life, which should be pure enjoyment and relaxation, from the pressures of work.

  Judith Martin

  Selling Things, Relaxation, Groups

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• 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.

  John Mayer

  Someday, Lifetime, Blues Music

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• This is about black people selling out other black people.

  John Mellencamp

  People, Black, Black People

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• I understand that artists and critics make a big deal over the Grammys. But when I go to my shows and I'm selling out arenas in London, and when I'm in Australia and Japan, there aren't any Grammys there. There are human beings who I've touched. There are human beings who are inspired by me, who I love dearly. And that's what my career is based on.

  Nicki Minaj

  Artist, Japan, Careers

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• All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent of the normal market prices and people are going to be tricked into providing their credit card numbers.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Numbers, People, Twenties

  "An Hour with Kevin Mitnick, Part 2". Interview With Vince Barnes, www.esecurityplanet.com. April 7, 2004.

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• When I was at college, I worked in a department store called Brit Home Stores, which is a pretty lackluster department store, selling clothes for middle-aged women. My job was to walk the floor and find anything that was damaged, take it to the store room and log it.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Jobs, Home, College

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• We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China... and it becomes this shell game.

  Michael Moore

  Moving, Games, People

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• Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

  Elon Musk

  Sports, Opportunity, America

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Liberty, Would Be

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut”, p.228, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

  Robert Orben

  Luxury, Democracy, Firsts

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• Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

  George Orwell

  Wisdom, Marketing, Buckets

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• It took me the bulk of my twenties to write one book about a family of alligator wrestlers. Whereas somebody like Steve Martin is releasing his latest banjo symphony, having just completed another movie and acclaimed, best-selling novel.

  Karen Russell

  Book, Writing, Symphony

  "The Exchange: Karen Russell on 'Swamplandia!'" by Rachel Hurn, www.newyorker.com. February 15, 2011.

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• The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the opposite. When everyone else is buying, we assume they know something we don't, so we buy. Then people start selling, panic sets in, and we sell too.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Opposites, People, Panic

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• Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that, since almost no one will be selling art, artists - especially emerging ones - won't have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They'll be able to experiment as much as they want.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Thinking, Creating

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• 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.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  California, States, Courses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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