Quotes About Sales

When I put out a record or single I don't allow myself to set up expectations like, 'This song must be a number one hit. Its got to sell X amount of records.'

Remember the Stax label and how if you liked one record, you liked all the others as well? You don't talk to a lot of people who tell you how much they love their record label. I don't care how many records they sell.

If you want to sell the most records, duet with me. If you need someone to come in and bless your record sales, I'm your man.

But when our first album came out, I didn't think it was going to sell a lot of records.

I need to reach a lot of people to sell records.

Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

No one really gets rich doing this. A couple people do, Black Sabbath does. We don't sell any records anymore.

I'm competitive, so I don't like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records.

I don't know how many records I'm selling.

I can't immediately get all this coverage when my record comes out. The way I sell gold and platinum records is by being on the road.

For every $10 you reduce the price of the smartphone, 100 million more people will buy them.

When you hear bosses talk about their best salespeople, they often refer to them as rock stars. It's the highest praise your boss can give someone on your team.

My hardcover sales are 17% down in books but up 400% in electronics.

Because Apple's corporate DNA is that of a hardware company, its activities are meant to support hardware sales.

Marketing is a major headache for farmers.

At a car dealership, the person who sells the car is the hero, and also gets the commission. But if the mechanics don't service that car well, the customer won't return.

Hey, if we didn't overcharge for our product - guess what - people wouldn't have to buy used games.

Hi, Billy Mays here for...

For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money.

Higher productivity enables companies to increase sales without adding workers. Even if job markets tighten and wages rise, corporate profits can continue to climb as long as worker productivity is growing faster than overall wages.

Walmart is so huge that a wage boost at Walmart would ripple through the entire economy, putting more money in the pockets of low-wage workers. This would help boost the entire economy - including Walmart's own sales.

Our economy works really well without an income or a sales tax.

The bestseller list is the tip of the iceberg.

One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell.