Sells Quotes - Page 17

• The negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the peoples of the world if he is willing to sell the future of his children for his personal and immediate comfort and safety.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Children, Winning

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• There are only four things you can do on skis. Turn right, turn left, go straight, or sell them.

  Warren Miller

  Four, Skiing, Skis

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• I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear.

  Margot Kidder

  Drama, Evil, Greek

  "No kidding" by Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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• All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Two, Orange, London

  Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.38, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Woman’s bodies continue to be dismembered in advertising. Over and over again just one part of the body is used to sell products, which is one of the most dehumanizing thing you can do to someone. Not only is she a thing, but just one part of that thing is focused on.

  Jean Kilbourne

  Body, Advertising, Women's Bodies

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• There are no secrets to running success,anyone who says there are is probably trying to sell you something.

  Marty Liquori

  Running, Secret, Trying

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• There is a kind of a cascading chain, ... If one can't sell, then that business doesn't buy and that means the next business doesn't sell, and the previous business doesn't sell, and so on.

  Alan Blinder

  Mean, Next, Kind

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• A price drop in a good stock is only a tragedy if you sell at that price and never buy more. To me, a price drop is an opportunity to load up on bargains from among your worst performers and your laggards that show promise. If you can't convince yourself "When I'm down 25 percent, I'm a buyer" and banish forever the fatal thought "When I'm down 25 percent, I'm a seller," then you'll never make a decent profit in stocks.

  Peter Lynch

  Opportunity, Forever, Promise

  "One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market". Book by Peter Lynch and John Rothchild, 1989.

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• What makes stocks valuable in the long run isn't the market. It's the profitability of the shares in the companies you own. As corporate profits increase, corporations become more valuable and sooner or later, their shares will sell for a higher price.

  Peter Lynch

  Running, Long, Investing

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• There is always something to worry about. Avoid weekend thinking and ignoring the latest dire predictions of the newscasters. Sell a stock because the company's fundamentals deteriorate, not because the sky is falling.

  Peter Lynch

  Fall, Weekend, Thinking

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• When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.

  Peter Lynch

  Desperation

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance.

  George Steinbrenner

  Thinking, People, Underdog

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• Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge.

  George Steinbrenner

  Baseball, Beer, Judging

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• Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn

  James Cash Penney

  Jobs, Economy, Selling

  James Cash Penney (1950). “Fifty Years with the Golden Rule”

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• I teach high school math. I sell a product to a market that doesn't want it, but is forced by law to buy it.

  Dan Meyer

  Teacher, School, Math

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• Good wine needs no bush,
  And perhaps products that people really want
  Need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push.
  Why not?
  Look at pot.

  Ogden Nash

  Humorous, Wine, People

  "Most Doctors Recommend or Yours For Fast Fast Fast Relief". "The Old Dog Barks Backwards". Book by Ogden Nash, 1972.

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• Most people sell stock to pay taxes, but I didn't want to sell any stock.

  Christie Hefner

  People, Want, Pay

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

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• We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Trying, Produce, Property

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• Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

  Rich Lowry

  Running, Presidential, Conservative

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• Only a certain number of people go to a store over the period of a year. When a person sees my record on the shelf, it eliminates someone else's record from being sold. It's about continuing to try to find new ways to sell records.

  Roy Ayers

  Years, Numbers, People

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• The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe to shame; Buy cheap, sell dear; eat. drink, and sleep down-pillowed, deaf to moaning want; Pay tithes for soul-insurance; keep Six days to Mammon, one to Cant

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sleep, Mean, Men

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “The Works of Whittier, Volume III (of VII) Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform”, p.150, tredition

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• I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.

  Keith Jarrett

  Heart, Player, Ideas

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• My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that.

  Paul Lynde

  Dad, Son, Ham

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• When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.

  Rory Bremner

  Rights, Liberty, Would Be

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• It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'

  Johann Most

  Men, Order, Hunger

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