Selling Quotes - Page 37

• Their [the evangelicals'] success also points to a hunger for the product they are selling, a hunger that goes beyond any particular issue or cause... They need an assurance that somebody out there cares about them, is listening to them.

  Barack Obama

  Issues, Listening, Religion

  "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream". Book by Barack Obama, content.time.com. October 17, 2006.

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• Read heavily in the area where you want to write. Be aware of what's selling and what's doing well but don't try to write to market trends; they are fleeting.

  Jeff Abbott

  Writing, Trying, Fleeting

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• I just know that, right now, ... the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.

  Elvis Presley

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Records

  Interview, quoting in "Pop Chronicles", "Show 55 - Crammer: A lively cram course on the history of rock and some other things", 1956.

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• Our mass media have little difficulty in selling particular interests as those of all sensible men. The political needs of society become individual needs and aspirations, their satisfaction promotes business and the commonweal, and the whole appeals to be the very embodiment of Reason.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Men, Media, Political

  "One-Dimensional Man" by Herbert Marcuse, (p. 9), 1964.

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• Drink a health to the wonders of the western world, the pirates, preachers, poteen-makers, with the jobbing jockies; parching peelers, and the juries fill their stomachs selling judgments of the English law.

  John Millington Synge

  Law, Pirate, World

  1907 The Playboy of the Western World, act 2.

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• I think that the thing you have to do is, people have to start being held accountable for their decisions. If somebody's not buying insurance, then they're going to have to be selling their car, or whatever it is to try to help cover that.

  Todd Akin

  Thinking, People, Car

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• Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.

  Edward Bellamy

  Buying, Antisocial, Buying And Selling

  Edward Bellamy (2015). “Looking Backward”, p.58, Booklassic

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• One of the problems is that the notion of cancer has been so normalized. You hear about it so often, and it's not ok... it's not ok to normalize this disease. And with all of the pinkwashing that goes on where companies are selling products based on breast cancer month it's a lovely gesture, but consumers get so used to it that it becomes more normal.

  Jennifer Beals

  Cancer, Selling Products, Lovely

  "Jennifer Beals Speaks Out Against 'Pinkwashing'". www.nbcwashington.com. November 01, 2011.

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• So for those of you who haven't read any of my five best-selling books: Liberals are driven by Satan and lie constantly.

  Ann Coulter

  Lying, Book, Satan

  "That was no lady -- That was my husband" by Ann Coulter, townhall.com. June 28, 2007.

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• It’s hard to imagine the revenue from selling the prints will cover the cost of lost goodwill.

  Stewart Butterfield

  Cost, Imagine, Lost

  "Flickr takes flak for selling Creative Commons photos as wall-art prints" by Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. December 02, 2014.

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• One of the really fascinating areas is marketplaces that take advantage of mobile devices. Ridesharing is the obvious example, but that's just the start of it, of selling goods and services with lightweight mobile apps.

  John Collison

  Example, Apps, Advantage

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• Houdini used to pull rabbits out of a hat, but he never tried to make a living out of selling them when he had pulled them out of the hat

  Tommy Douglas

  Rabbits, Hats, Houdini

  Tommy Douglas' remarks during a budget debate at the Saskatchewan Legislature, March 18, 1947.

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• All the real money in investment will have to be made as most of it has been in the past not out of buying and selling but out of owning and holding securities, receiving interests and dividends therein, and benefiting from their long-term increases in value. Hence stockholder's major energies and wisdom as investors should be directed toward assuring themselves of the best operating results from their corporations. This in turn means assuring themselves of fully honest and competent managements.

  Benjamin Graham

  Real, Mean, Past

  "The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing". Book by Benjamin Graham. Chapter I, What the Intelligent Investor Can Accomplish, p. 17, 1949.

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• The investor has a right to expect good results to flow from a consistent and courageous application of the principle of buying after the market has declined substantially and selling after it has had a spectacular rise. But he cannot expect to reduce this principle to a simple and foolproof formula, with profits guaranteed and no anxious periods.

  Benjamin Graham

  Simple, Principles, Buying

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• The reader can test his own psychology by asking himself whether he would consider, in retrospect, the selling at 156 in 1925 and buying back at 109 in 1931 was a satisfactory operation. Some may think that an intelligent investor should have been able to sell out much closer to the high of 381 and to buy back nearer the low of 41. If that is your own view you are probably a speculator at heart and will have trouble keeping to true investment precepts while the market rushes up and down.

  Benjamin Graham

  Heart, Intelligent, Thinking

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• Whenever the investor sold out in an upswing as soon as the top level of the previous well-recognized bull market was reached, he had a chance in the next bear market to buy back at one third (or better) below his selling price.

  Benjamin Graham

  Bulls, Levels, Next

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• Individual security bargains may be located by the process of security analysis practically at any time. They can be bought with good overall results at all periods except when the general market itself is clearly in a selling range for investors. They show up to best advantage during the years in which the market remains in a relatively narrow and neutral area.

  Benjamin Graham

  Years, Analysis, May

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• The investor is neither smart not richer when he buys in an advancing market and the market continues to rise. That is true even when he cashes in a goodly profit, unless either (a) he is definitely through with buying stocks an unlikely story or (b) he is determined to reinvest only at considerably lower levels. In a continuous program no market profit is fully realized until the later reinvestment has actually taken place, and the true measure of the trading profit is the difference between the previous selling level and the new buying level.

  Benjamin Graham

  Smart, Taken, Differences

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• Have you seen some of the crap they're selling as exercise equipment now? How about that Suzanne Somers? She should have been thrown in jail for selling the piece-of-crap Thigh Master. It just develops a little muscle on the inner thigh. What good is that?

  Jack LaLanne

  Exercise, Should Have, Jail

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• So if waiting is an aggravation, it is at least partly because we do not like being reminded of our limits. We like doing -- earning, buying, selling, building, planting, driving, baking -- making things happen, whereas waiting is essentially a matter of being -- stopping, sitting, listening, looking, breathing, wondering, praying. It can feel pretty helpless to wait for someone or something that is not here yet and that will or will not arrive in its own good time, which is not the same thing as our own good time.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Breathing, Aggravation, Waiting

  Barbara Brown Taylor (1995). “Gospel Medicine”, p.153, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I would go to newsstands and buy paperbacks they were selling for tourists, usually bestsellers and mass market paperbacks. In the beginning, it was like going to the Rosetta Stone--I didn?t understand anything, I'd get a headache--but I began to figure it out, and I'd read a lot of Stephen King paperbacks. I've always said he was my English professor.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Kings, Tourists, Stones

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• It's kind of cool that we've quietly been selling a million albums. We knew the album wasn't going to debut at No. 1. I'm stoked to see us being successful again.

  Jacoby Shaddix

  Successful, Albums, Quiet

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• People don't buy lady art.

  Walter Keane

  Art, People

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• People tend to be put off by the idea of selling sex, but if you spend a winter's night with one of them and talk with her about her family and so on, you're likely to find she's just like any other woman.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Sex, Winter, Night

  Eiji Yoshikawa (1981). “Musashi”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Nigerians are everywhere. There's an old joke, particularly about the Ibos, that when you finally land on Mars, you're going to find a Nigerian there who has a shop that is selling Coca-Cola--who took a speculative trip 20 years ago and has been waiting for everyone else to arrive.

  Chris Abani

  Years, Land, Waiting

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