Quotes About Sellers

When we talk about the things at Airbnb that are challenging and that they are going to have to overcome, the parallels with eBay are across the board. It's community management. It's making sure the marketplace is in balance - the right amount of buyers and sellers.

We have focused on the buyers of influence (those outside special interests), but paid little heed to the sellers of influence—bureaucrats and politicians.

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the WAR ROOM!!!

There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers.

For most of Wall Street's history, stock trading was fairly straightforward: buyers and sellers gathered on exchange floors and dickered until they struck a deal.

Eating wantan mee in Malaysia is my earliest memory. The street sellers there have a whole cooking set-up on the front of their bikes.

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

When I was thinking of casting this, I thought, What roles would Sellers be playing now?

Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities.

Smith argued that two conditions were necessary for labor to produce the maximum amount of wealth: perfect competition among sellers—everyone pursuing his or her selfish interest, the famous "invisible hand"—and the complete freedom of buyers to substitute one commodity for another.

a platform is usually not hostile to competition among sellers.

The thickness of the Amazon marketplace — the ready availability of so many buyers and sellers — is self-reinforcing.

When the government mandates that everyone must buy a product, its sellers can, and will, increase its price, potentially without limit.

Markets are, in many settings, self-organizing and 'efficient' in terms of maximizing the welfare of both buyers and sellers.

On my debut album, I wrote a lot about women and their roles in society.

Ebay's success as a company depends on the success of the community of sellers.

Around one-thirty it started raining lightly. Almost immediately the umbrella sellers turned up on the streetcorners. You'd have thought they had existed previously in spore form, springing miraculously to life when a drop of water touched them.

The 'Mexican drug problem' is not the Mexican drug problem. It is the American drug problem. We are the buyers, and without buyers, there can be no sellers.

Equipment sellers can pocket more than $2,500 every time they send a powered wheelchair to a patient and bill Medicare.

As I saw more and more people buying the images that were happy buyers, and people selling the images that were happy with how the market was pricing them, I started to get the sense this could be the go-to place for businesses to get the images they need.

As Keynes observed, there cannot be "liquidity" for the community as a whole.6 The mistake is in thinking that markets have a duty to stay liquid or that buyers will always be present to accommodate sellers.

So far, the only people who've made money from trading systems are their sellers.

Sometimes, indeed, it seemed to me that the really important exchange was the freedom, with the mushroom-and-money trophies as extensions– proofs, as it were– of the performance. After all, it was the feeling of freedom, galvanizing "mushroom fever," that energized buyers to put on their best shows and pressed pickers to get up the next dawn to search for mushrooms again.

Actors are sellers, and I figured out a long time ago that if you wanted to work a lot, you had to be on the buying side.