Quotes About Sales

Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make.

I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.

I have always been selling. I always had something going on. That was just my nature.

If you've ever had somebody try to sell you something - people who can sell, they really are not manipulating you. They are selling themselves.

Selling books is hard to engineer.

If any PC manufacturer has made money selling PCs retail in the last 10 years, I'd like to know who they are.

It's whatever sells; it's the business of it.

As an author, I love to know my book sells really well.

Everything of mine sells. An envelope with my name on it sells.

There's nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell.

If you're shameless enough, you can sell anything.

I actually did use to sell shoes.

Mortenson was merely selling what the public was eager to buy.

Benjamin had not dared, yet, to enquire about sales figures; as for the book's critical reception, it was non-existent. No reviews in either the national or local papers, of course, nothing on the various readers' websites and no reader reviews on Amazon - where it had a sales raking of 743,926 (or, if he wanted to cheer himself up, 493 in Bestsellers>Fiction>Literary Fiction>Autobiographical Fiction>Romance>Obsession).

Her problem at Renewable Solutions was that she could never quite figure out what she was selling, even when she was finding people to buy it, and no sooner had she finally begun to figure it out than she was asked to sell something else.

The Environmental Handbook appeared in January 1970, and the Sierra Club's Ecotactics came out in April. Both books were largely the work of the young. Both were huge hits. Sales of the handbook reached 1.5 million, while Ecotactics sold 500,000 copies.

The payroll tax is affecting sales. It's causing sales declines.

The DS was launched back in 2004, and sales of that machine hit a record in 2009 in the United States. That is totally different from the conventional sales pattern, in which game gear sales peak in the third year and take a downturn thereafter.

When I arrived in Ford, a decision was made to sell many marquee brands. This was because 85 per cent of the sales were from Ford and Lincoln brands. We were clear that for the company's strong future, we needed to focus on the Ford brands.

Every project might only sell like 30 to 50,000, but I mean, I'm getting seven, eight dollars every CD. I make more money per record than an artist on a major label - I can definitely say that.

In sales, it's not what you say; it's how they perceive what you say.

Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything.

It's strange how 'Fawlty' has become a perennial. I keep meeting new generations of schoolboys who know the lines better than I did when I said them. The program has sensational sales in video. I'm mercifully on a small percentage.

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.