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Quotes About Selling

I've sold my records outta shopping carts on the street.
~ GG Allin
We have been investing in building a mobile-first selling capability by establishing the Consumer Channels Group to strengthen and align the device-selling motion and to expand our impact with OEM, retail channel partners and our operator channel, and by extending it with our opening of Microsoft Stores.
~ B. Kevin Turner
If you don't have ample liquidity, and it's not durable, in times of stress, as you're looking for liquidity, you're forced to sell assets at declining prices, which then eats into your capital position, so it becomes this very, very negative cycle. There's no question that liquidity is sacrosanct.
~ Ruth Porat
For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
~ Callie Khouri
You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.
~ Benjamin Jowett
Mastering the art of selling involves mastering the craft of providing your clients the education, products, services, and personal contact before, during and after the sale that they want, need and, more important, deserve. That's how you succeed. That's how you'll not only survive and grow in this business, but will thrive, prosper, and achieve greatness through it.
~ Tom Hopkins
Would you like to improve your performance at the gentle, satisfying, and profitable art of selling? Maybe you don't like
~ Tom Hopkins
Selling is the art of asking the right questions to get the minor yeses that allow you to lead your prospect to the major decision. It's a simple function, and the final sale is nothing more than the sum total of all your yeses.
~ Tom Hopkins
Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about. I think our generation loves our pain, and if you dare take it away from us, we're going to kill you. We like our pain. And we're packaging it, and we're selling it.
~ Tori Amos
A large part of what big companies pay extra for is the cost of selling expensive things to them.
~ Paul Graham
I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing, I learned calligraphy. I go to courses on selling, I read one book after another. But that's all a way of avoiding those moments when nothing is happening, because those blank spaces give me a feeling of absolute emptiness, in which not a single crumb of love exists.
~ Paulo Coelho
No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts.
~ Don Henley
In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling.
~ Gore Vidal
As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
~ Erica Jong
There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.
~ Banksy
I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.
~ Arne Glimcher
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
A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
~ Robert Genn
If the poor rabbits knew I was selling their dead bodies for wine, they would be heartbroken.
~ David Adams Richards
Aquí está el oro, peor veneno para el alma; en este mundo asesina mucho más que las tristes mezclas que no puedes vender. Soy yo quien te vende veneno, no tú a mí.
~ William Shakespeare
Faced with the almost inescapable conclusion that it had been selling lemons, Nike shifted into make-lemonade mode. Jeff Pisciotta became head of a top-secret and seemingly impossible project: finding a way to make a buck off a naked foot.
~ Christopher McDougall
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
A stall selling cloaks in all the colours of the sky, from the first blush of dawn to deep as midnight and spangled with stars.
~ Holly Black
Customers are your best teachers. Learning about your customer's beliefs, values, and priorities teaches you which selling points you should emphasize.
~ Mark Goulston