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• It seems almost incredible that the advocates of liberty should conceive of the idea of selling a fellow creature to slavery.

  James Forten

  Ideas, Liberty, Slavery

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• When you're in a commodity business, the only way to thrive is to be a low-cost producer. And when you're selling money, you're in a commodity business.

  Duff McDonald

  Cost, Banking, Way

  Duff McDonald (2009). “Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Animal, Soul, Gains

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• Selling concerns itself with the tricks and techniques of getting people to exchange their cash for your product. It is not concerned with the values that the exchange is all about. And it does not, as marketing invariable does, view the entire business process as consisting of a tightly integrated effort to discover, create, arouse and satisfy customer needs.

  Theodore Levitt

  Views, People, Effort

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• No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily - or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play.

  Edwin Lefevre

  Intelligent, Men, Play

  Edwin Lefèvre (2004). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.35, John Wiley & Sons

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• It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight! It is no trick at all to be right on the market. You always find lots of early bulls in bull markets and early bears in bear markets. I've known many men who were right at exactly the right time, and began buying or selling stocks when prices were at the very level which should show the greatest profit. And their experience invariably matched mine--that is, they made no real money out of it. Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon.

  Edwin Lefevre

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone 'Stuck in Love', with scrupulous respect for John Green's best-selling young-adult novel, the film sets out to make you weep - not just sniffle or choke up a little, but sob until your nose runs and your face turns blotchy. It succeeds.

  A. O. Scott

  Running, Book, Tears

  "Young Love, Complicated by Cancer" by A.O. Scott, www.nytimes.com. June 05, 2014.

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• Eventually I got asked to be in a Michael J. Fox sitcom called High School U.S.A. I didn’t think it was funny and said no. They doubled the money, and that kind of offended me. I realized, oh, that’s right, my opinion means nothing in Hollywood. I’d seen other people compromise, and I felt that once you gave up on what you wanted to do, you couldn’t go back. It was selling out. So I decided to go back to Minneapolis.

  Joel Hodgson

  School, Mean, Thinking

  "'Mystery Science Theater 3000': the Definitive Oral History of a Tv Masterpiece". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.wired.com. April 22, 14.

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• Americans aren't buying the hate these anti-LGBT extremists are selling, so they've been forced to take their take their dangerous rhetoric abroad. These radicals are now travelling from country to country advocating for the persecution of LGBT people under the guise that they're saving children.

  Chad Griffin

  Country, Children, Hate

  "US conservative activists want more countries to emulate Russia's anti-gay laws", www.foxnews.com. February 21, 2014.

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• Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by making anyone who goes against the flow of commerce seem clueless.

  David Denby

  Clueless, Flow, Irony

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• Be very careful of what you allow to infiltrate your consciousness and subconsciousness. When you watch too much television, you'll start to feel inferior from all the commercials hard selling the idea that you're not complete unless you buy their product. The ad agencies appeal to your fear of not being wanted or loved. It's the same with the local news. They get you to stay tuned with a constant stream of fear tactics. It's as if our culture is addicted to fear and the flat screen is our drug dealer. Don't allow that crap into your head!

  RuPaul

  Ideas, Agency, Drug

  "You Better Werk! 10 Life Lessons From RuPaul In (Mostly) Gif Form". madamenoire.com. July 31, 2013.

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• It’s about, when did it make sense to say one size fits everybody? It never ever ever made sense to do that, and yet we’re still selling education the same way we sold it when you and I were in high school.

  Mike Rowe

  School, Way, Size

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• Be the Mick Jagger of the mailroom, the Warren Buffet of bookkeeping and the Bono of stapler selling.

  Robin S

  Buffets, Warren Buffet, Bookkeeping

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• It's more about when you come back from being out somewhere; in a minicab or a night bus, or with someone, or walking home across London late at night, dreamlike, and you've still got the music kind of echoing in you, in your bloodstream, but with real life trying to get in the way. I want it to be like a little sanctuary. It's like that 24-hour stand selling tea on a rainy night, glowing in the dark. It's pretty simple.

  Burial

  Real, Home, Dark

  "'Only five people know I make tunes'". Interview with Dan Hancox, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2007.

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• I am proud that my humble attempts to predict Tuesday's prices on Monday are an indispensable component of our society. By buying low and selling high, I create harmony and freedom.

  Victor Niederhoffer

  Monday, Humble, Tuesday

  "The Blow-Up Artist". Interview with John Cassidy, www.newyorker.com. October 15, 2007.

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• When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who's selling fear.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Children, Men, Advice

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• Before that I had largely thought of selling as just a way of making a living for myself. I had dreaded to go in to see people, for fear I was making a nuisance of myself. But now I was inspired! I resolved right then to dedicate the rest of my selling career to this principle: finding out what people want, and helping them get it.

  Frank Bettger

  Careers, People, Principles

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• Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to selling ideas for your situation. You’ll know that you’re getting better at selling (or pitching) strategy when managers start coming to you when there is strategic thinking to be done.

  Max McKeown

  Senior, Thinking, Ideas

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• Today's N.R.A. is, in reality, nothing more than a gun industry trade association masquerading as a shooting sports foundation. The organization's agenda is increasingly focused on one goal: selling more guns.

  Josh Sugarmann

  Sports, Reality, Gun

  "Is It the Assault Rifle?" by Charlie Allenson, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2015.

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• In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.

  Tony Alessandra

  Inspirational, Medicine, Diagnosis

  Tony Alessandra, Phil Wexler, Anthony J. Alessandra, Rick Barrera (1992). “Non-Manipulative Selling”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• I did commercials since I was 16, and that's kind of acting, depending on what you're selling.

  Joan Severance

  Acting, Kind

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

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• I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Selling Things, Wish, Important

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.46, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I've often said that we are doing something far more important than just selling cosmetics; we are changing lives.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Life Changing, Important, Cosmetics

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• I was studying acting, going to UCLA, selling real estate on the weekends

  Burt Ward

  Real, Weekend, Ucla

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• The only pressure that you use in a professional selling presentation is the presence of silence after the closing question.

  Brian Tracy

  Silence, Use, Pressure

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