Selling Quotes - Page 40

• Tech stocks were the cubic zirconium of the market. They looked good and were sexy, but they just were a way for the company selling them to make money. That's always going to be transient in terms of the stock market. What's real is that companies have to compete. Technology used well is a great tool to enable that if only because most companies dont use technologies well.

  Mark Cuban

  Sexy, Real, Technology

  "Online Extra: Mark Cuban: Watch Out for 'Ultrabroadband'". Interview with Peter Elstrom, www.bloomberg.com. August 25, 2003.

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• I am the epitome of the underdog. By societies standards I should have been dead a long time ago, and I was nobody's gangster, I wasn't a thug, I wasn't selling drugs on the corner - I was scared of that.

  Michael K. Williams

  Thug, Should Have, Long

  "Talking With Our Mouths Full: Michael Kenneth Williams". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. October 4, 2011.

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• I was selling real estate at the time, in Pacific Palisades, California, so imagine that: getting a note and a bottle of champagne from Jack Nicholson when I'd barely made a dime as an actor. It really kept me going.

  Kurt Fuller

  Real, California, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my concerts, they often hold up candles when we do "Let It Be." I don't think they'd do that anymore if the song suddenly became part of an Oldsmobile ad.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Moving, Thinking

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• To help other people, you've got to be able to help yourself. You go to a psychiatrist, and they're on this Prozac, Effexor, and antidepressants, you may have picked the wrong person. If you go to somebody who's broke who's selling you financial services, that might not be a good thing. You go to somebody who's fat to help you lose weight... And a lot of people ironically do these types of things.

  Tony Robbins

  Helping Others, People, Weight

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Drugs are so easy to get in the ghetto. They might not be easy to get in nice areas like Beverly Hills, but in Long Beach and Compton and South Central they're easy to get. They don't drop those drugs off in Beverly Hills. They drop them off in the ghetto. Then they tell us it's wrong to sell them. Well, we didn't bring them here. We just sell them. I was selling, like I sold newspapers.

  Snoop Dogg

  Beach, Nice, Ghetto

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. October 1995.

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• When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily - marvellous.

  Paul Merton

  Oysters, Guy, Edinburgh

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• A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.

  Ian Frazier

  Book, Opportunity, Names

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• I'll be selling tickets for my next tour exclusively through Jonah Lehrer. Make sure to pay cash.

  Bob Dylan

  Cash, Pay, Next

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• The most difficult thing has definitely been movies. From a comedian's standpoint, you think being real big is the best thing, but with movies, the screen is huge, you're big anyway! Also, coming from a TV personality - MTV was all about high energy and selling the hottest video - I had to learn to [take it down]. A lot of characters I'm playing are not necessarily that kind of guy.

  Bill Bellamy

  Real, Character, Thinking

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• Whether you're an entrepreneur, a small business, or a Fortune 500 company, great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling. That's a constant. What's always in flux, especially in this noisy, mobile world, is how, when, and where the story gets told, and even who gets to tell all of it.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  People, Entrepreneur, Marketing

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• Hip-Hop went from selling crack to smoking it

  Mos Def

  Hip Hop, Smoking, Cracks

  Song: Hip Hop

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• People like to say you're either born with style or you're not, and that's complete hooey. You've gotta develop your own and find your own.If you just put on whatever they're trying to sell you, you will always be out of fashion. Otherwise, they can't keep selling you. So, you will always be out of fashion. Get used to it. That's the game. Whatever they say is fashionable, chuck it.

  Lauren Hutton

  Fashion, Games, People

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• I've seen so many beautiful curvy women gain success in hollywood and then wither into bobble headed stick figures in some grotesque attempt to fit a revolting hollywood trend. I like real women, not the broomsticks that Hollywood has been selling lately.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Beautiful, Real, Hollywood

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• I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point.

  Shiv Khera

  Moving, Car, Vacuums

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• Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop.

  Jeremy Robinson

  Easier, Pops, Novel

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• I have fantasy jobs like working in retail at a department store just selling rich housewives outfits and saying 'this looks fabulous on you! Let me find a matching handbag!' Then, the other is being like some sort of Vice or taskforce, law enforcement, undercover [person]. Or possibly someday becoming a guerilla activist - I'm kind of in-training for that now anyways. So, maybe my retirement will be jumping on ships, kidnapping, and [participating in] espionage. I still fantasize.

  Mike Ness

  Retirement, Jobs, Jumping

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• We have broken the shackles of conservative socialism. The growing middle classes want the kind of standard of living you enjoy in the West. So what I'm selling is a lifestyle.

  Vijay Mallya

  Class, Broken, Want

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• Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of selling out. Thus, even the languages of capitalism and art conflict: a firm that has 'sold out' has succeeded, but an artist that has 'sold out' has failed.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Art, Hard Work, Want

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• We've become a nation of con men, living by selling double glazing to each other.

  Fred Dibnah

  Men, Nations

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

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• It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Artist, People, Trying

  "James Vincent McMorrow: 'I like my own musical company'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2014.

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• Cain understands domestic issues because he had experience selling pizza; and he understands international issues because pizza is Italian.

  Stephen Colbert

  Italian, Issues, Cain

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• My fear is that the Tea Party gets a charismatic leader. Because all they're selling is fear and anger. And that's all Hitler sold. 'I'm angry and I'm frightened, and you should hate that guy over there.' And that's what they're doing.

  Rob Reiner

  Hate, Party, Guy

  "Rob Reiner likens 'tea party' movement to Hitler". latimesblogs.latimes.com. October 25, 2010.

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• There are a lot of comics at the top end making staggering amounts of money and selling out stadiums. I think stand-up is a more intimate thing than that. Maybe because of the kind of comedy I do. It's like a discussion, but I'm the one with the microphone.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Thinking, Comedy, Kind

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

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• Selling millions of records is great, but at the end of the day it really doesn't bring peace.

  TobyMac

  The End Of The Day, Records, Ends

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