Selling Quotes - Page 26

• I can assure you that buying leases for x and selling them for 5x or 10x is a lot more profitable than trying to produce gas at $5 or $6 per million cubic feet.

  Aubrey McClendon

  Feet, Trying, Buying

  "Mexico's 'mother of all oil and gas rushes' is about to get ugly" by Wolf Richter, www.businessinsider.com. September 10, 2015.

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• The internet has been incredible in regards to the selling of my CD. I don't know how it's affected or will affect my acting career.

  Helen Slater

  Cds, Careers, Acting

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• All my money was made doing the dates and selling products when I was out there on the road.

  Mickey Gilley

  Selling Products, Made, Products

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• Cause I can make more money going in and doing my recordings and selling them through my entities that I have, rather than going to a record co. and them release a record and pay me 5 percent of what they make off it.

  Mickey Gilley

  Records, Pay, Causes

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• The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it.

  Don Bluth

  Running, Sex, Rocks

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. June 14, 2000.

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• Avon invented the concept of direct marketing and direct selling beauty. And that's still very valid to us. We'll have a firm that will be around for another 114 years as strongly as it was the first 114.

  Andrea Jung

  Direct Selling, Years, Marketing

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• Understand that you need to sell you and your ideas in order to advance your career, gain more respect, and increase your success, influence and income.

  Jay Abraham

  Order, Careers, Ideas

  Jay Abraham (2000). “Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition”, p.11, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.

  Orson Scott Card

  Telling The Truth

  Orson Scott Card (2004). “The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.281, Macmillan

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• He obtained from Congress the right to borrow from the people by selling to it the 'bonds' of States ... and the Government and the nation escaped the plots of the foreign financiers. They understood at once, that the United States would escape their grip. The death of Lincoln was resolved upon.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Government, People, United States

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• Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be
  convicted and they ought to be sent up.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Drug Use, Law

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up. My idea was: Enjoy baking, sell your bread, people like it, sell more. Keep the bakery going because you're making good food and people are happy.

  Ian MacKaye

  Ideas, People, Bakeries

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• Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.

  Ian MacKaye

  Song, Cds, Mind

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• I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning...Who ever thought I'd be a children's author -- let alone a best-selling children's author? I feel I should still be driving a truck, or (working as) a longshoreman.

  Brian Jacques

  Morning, Children, Wake Up

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• Well, the album 'Intuition' is out and just went platinum officially. So I think to have the music doing what it's doing right now, man, it's the ultimate. Nobody is really selling records out there but we are at a million records and we dropped it at Christmas, so we are just trying to get that thing to like two million, you know.

  Jamie Foxx

  Christmas, Men, Thinking

  "Jamie Foxx Interview - THE SOLOIST" by Steve ‘Frosty’ Weintraub, collider.com. April 23, 2009.

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• His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Names, People, House

  Babbitt ch. 1 (1922)

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• You get moments all the time that kind of make you pinch yourself, some of them make you quite emotional. Winning a BRIT was a big moment because we were just so excited to be at the awards in the first place. Selling out Madison Square Garden was pretty amazing too. Then we woke to the news that our UK tour was sold out. It was crazy.

  Harry Styles

  Crazy, Winning, Emotional

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

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• It seems absolutely wrong that people should be able to profit in this cynical way from an event that is designed to highlight the need for action on poverty in Africa, and for which so many artists and others are donating their valuable time for nothing [on people selling Live8 concert tickets on eBay]

  James Purnell

  Artist, Ebay, People

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• Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast gay men and lesbians as the new enemy, calculating deviants seducing the nation's young, anti-Avon ladies selling sodomy door-to-door. This simply won't wash. Just as seeing the Russians up close and personal on television humanized them, so seeing the lesbian grandmother of two little girls wearing her gold medal with pride makes the notion of otherness, much less deviance, silly and ignorant.

  Anna Quindlen

  Girl, Country, Silly

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• Harry Potter is not twilight, you know; we're not selling sex.

  Emma Watson

  Sex, Hate, Twilight

  "he SUNDAY FUNNIES: Emma Watson Puts Twilight on Blast and Peter Morgan Calls Out Tony Blair" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. September 12, 2010.

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

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Life Lesson, Kids, Yards

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• In business, we often say that your best customers are the customers you have now. In other words, your most successful sales leads come from the selling you've already done.

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Business, Successful, Done

  Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2005). “Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.46, Crown Business

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• Some people who don't like guns can't stand the idea of so many gun owners in one place (at gun shows) buying and selling their wicked products. It's how some communists feel when they visit the New York Stock Exchange.

  Dave Kopel

  New York, Gun, Ideas

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• The most important advance in selling for many years

  Neil Rackham

  Years, Important

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• God really exists, I tell you like this:
  It resides inside.
  And anybody tell you different,
  Just selling you religion,
  Tryin' to keep your ass in line.

  Killer Mike

  Rap, Hip Hop, Different

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• My suspicion is that we're near a near-term low. The reality is the majority of the selling short-term is over with - the market doesn't want to go down.

  Peter Green

  Reality, Majority, Want

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