Selling Quotes - Page 34

• When I think of the artists I admire and seek out musically. It's because I'm curious about where they're going to go the next time they have a chance to put a record out. It's not about where I find them on the radio dial, or how many records they're selling.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Music, Artist, Thinking

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• Nobody has ever gone broke selling escape to the American public.

  John Lahr

  Gone, Broke

  "Master of Revels". www.newyorker.com. May 3, 2010.

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• Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant mixture of aspiration and effort and compromise.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Effort, Purpose

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers. Judging by the paintings I saw, the Soviets were right the first time.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Art, Humorous

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• Mass production is only profitable if its rhythm can be maintained.. that is, if it can continue to sell its product in steady or increasing quantity. The result is that while, under the handicraft or small-unit system of production that was typical a century ago, demand created the supply, today supply must actively seek to create its corresponding demand.

  Edward Bernays

  Typical, Demand, Today

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.46, Lulu.com

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• Combine the dual qualities of empathy and ambitionin every sales relationship.

  Brian Tracy

  Empathy, Quality

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Successful Selling”, Jaico Publishing House

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• Keep your sales pipeline full by prospecting continuosly.Always have more people to see than you have time to see them .

  Brian Tracy

  People, Pipeline, Prospecting

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• People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

  John Forbes Nash

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "Doing Psychiatry Wrong: A Critical and Prescriptive Look at a Faltering Profession" by René J. Muller, (p. 62), 2013.

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• My dad was one of the reasons I got into rock and roll, because I was learning the ropes of his business, which was selling powertools, and I was looking for a way out from under his heel. I was like, 'Where's the fun? Where's the glamour?

  Billy Idol

  Dad, Fun, Rocks

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

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• My greatest regret is selling my company.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Regret, Company

  "Vidal Sassoon: this much I know". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. September 03, 2011.

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• I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final.

  Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

  Night, Finals, Goes On

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• Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.

  Vash Young

  Sorry, Thinking, People

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• I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Once I started selling scripts for a great deal of money - action scripts, no less, which people tend to pooh-pooh anyway - then I started to get some backlash. Which I didn't mind.

  Shane Black

  People, Mind, Scripts

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• When I'm out hustling up new industries, I can offer Louisiana's many selling points. We have unmatched natural resources, a unique culture and fantastic workers.

  Kathleen Blanco

  Unique, Hustle, Louisiana

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• Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Powerful, Moving, Giving

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• Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with people. You also needed business skills. You knew you needed to sell a certain amount of boxes, so that gave me some business sense.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Skills, People, Cookies

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• Selling records is fantastic. But if you're not loving what you do, and if everybody is throwing knives at you, it can get old very fast.

  Wes Borland

  Loving What You Do, Knives, Records

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• Advertising gets such a bashing from the world. At parties you are always asked, 'Aren't you just selling people things they don't want?

  Paul Arden

  Party, People, World

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• We are all advertising, all of the time. If you want to sell your car, what do you do? You clean and polish it and make it the best you can. Some people bake bread when they are trying to sell their house because the smell adds a friendly feeling. Even the priest, with all his or her fervour, is advertising God. Everybody is selling.

  Paul Arden

  Smell, People, Car

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• I want to write a best-selling book.

  Diane Abbott

  Book, Writing, Want

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• I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store.

  Herb Alpert

  Song, Artist, Thinking

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• And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.

  Patrick Carney

  Opportunity, People, Records

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• When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.

  Patrick Carney

  Song, Two, Looks

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• For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.

  Barry Corbin

  Selling Products, Eight, People

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

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