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Quotes About Selling

The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.
~ David Ogilvy
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.
~ David Ogilvy
First, study the product you are going to advertise. The more you know about it, the more likely you are to come up with a big idea for selling it.
~ David Ogilvy
The best way to settle such arguments is to measure the selling effectiveness of your campaign at regular intervals, and to go on running it until the research shows that it has worn out. Word
~ David Ogilvy
If the consumer does not perceive any real benefits in the brand, then no amount of ingenious advertising and selling can save it.
~ David Ogilvy
He understood that during depressed markets, if you can get a decent average price at a bottom price range, it would make the selling part much easier, even if you misjudged the timing of the sales. To
~ David Schneider
At the risk of repeating myself, every investor's goal is to buy an investment at a low price and then sell it at a higher price. Buy low and sell high! The one thing that always keeps you from accomplishing this simple mission is yourself, not because making the purchase or sale is difficult to find out or to accomplish.
~ David Schneider
Capitalism implies and induces insecurity, which is constantly being exploited, of course, by all sorts of people selling things.
~ David Shields
when selling your soul it's important to remember that there is no buy back clause in the contract
~ Dean Cavanagh
There is something quintessentially American about the confidence man, who reinvents himself to each new victim in the same way that America's early settlers reinvented themselves in a new land .... America was built on dreams and promises, and dreams and promises are what a con man sells.
~ Dean Jobb
When your IQ rises to 28, sell.
~ Irwin Corey
I remember a time when a cabbage could sell itself by being a cabbage. Nowadays it's no good being a cabbage – unless you have an agent and pay him a commission. Nothing is free anymore to sell itself or give itself away. These days, Countess, every cabbage has its pimp.
~ Jean Giraudoux
A biotech firm will therefore take care to create a downstream monopoly that maximizes profits from selling the drug.
~ Jean Tirole
Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange.
~ Jean-Francois Lyotard
Taking an active hand in evaluating alternatives is a task that is largely nonexistent in conventional selling.
~ Jeff Thull
The final selling price of $67,000 was less than Christensen had paid to have the ship built
~ Alfred Lansing
the tension between commoditization and product differentiation — that is, between wanting to sell in a thick market to buyers even if they don't care who you are, and trying to make your product special enough that many buyers will care enough about you to seek you out.
~ Alvin E. Roth
The whole banking sector in Mexico was literally bankrupt. For whatever reason, instead of intervening in the sector or supporting the banks, the government expropriated them. We went through the very laborious period of selling the failing banks to the wealthy people of Mexico.
~ Jose Angel Gurria
The variety of training is a major selling point of triathlon. Different sports, different venues means it's always interesting, and you can always switch things round if the weather messes your plans up.
~ Jonathan Brownlee
Nobody has really grasped yet the great wealth that can be made selling data over the Web. There are 100 million potential customers out there.
~ Michael J. Saylor
As I started college, I started to build software products that I could sell to people over the Web.
~ Jon Oringer
We have to sell a gameplan, and you have to be enthusiastic, and you have to have energy come Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
~ Jeff Fisher
The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.
~ David Ogilvy
Once you start trying to sell creativity, you're always going to run into the problem that the people selling it aren't as creative as the people making it, and the people making it don't know how to talk business with the people trying to sell it.
~ Dave Pirner