Quotes About Sales

In the case of 'Goon Squad,' which sold slowly for a long time despite the good reviews, those 'best of 2010' lists were pivotal, and made the book really sell.

Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built their own factory, and created distribution, sales, and marketing plans.

We wanted to preserve as many jobs as possible, so when our sales continued to decline in August 2008, we did about a 5 percent reduction of our global staff. But in order not to cut any more jobs, we froze everybody's pay and put a hiring freeze on.

Anytime you cut food stamps, it naturally affects sales. People spend less.

Book awards - in America, at least - are not like the Oscars. Awards are not cumulative, and in the case of something like the Pulitzers, the jurors often have another goal in mind: sales. They know that the Pulitzer stamp can sell a book.

I believe if you've written a book, you have to stand up and say, 'Guys, buy the book.'

You have to empower your sales staff to use their judgment and go beyond the standards set down on paper and by the computer.

To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.

We've become a nation of con men, living by selling double glazing to each other.

An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

Let's face it - negativity sells records.

It's almost always easier to sell to an existing customer base than to find a new one.

I am, in fact, a candle salesperson's worst nightmare - or dream come true, depending on the salesperson.

We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season... It's impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market.

I have a responsibility to the people who work for me, the manufacturers I work with. There is no point to clothes that don't sell.

Parker Brothers and other companies sold a billion dollars worth of handheld games in 1979, which didn't encourage them to look to the much smaller videogame market. In that market, the leading company, Atari, had sales of only $238 million during that same year—and that was after the Atari VCS had been on the market for more than twelve months.

The arcade cabinet has become a rare sight in the United States, but in their best year, coin-operated games collected quarters that, adjusting for inflation, sum to more than twice the 2006 sales of U.S. computer and videogame software.5

I assumed it was someone trying to sell me something. They're always calling to sell. Once they said if I sent in a check for $99 I'd be pre-approved for a credit card, and I said, Right, sure, and if I step under a pigeon I'm preapproved for a load of shit

Y que es lo que vendeis? -pregunto Rob a los judíos- Pues un poco de esto y un poco de aquello. Rob quedo encantado con la respuesta.

Jewel moved 432,000 hardcover copies of A Night Without Armor, thereby making her the best-selling American poet of the past fifty years.

everyone likes to be sold easy promises, don't they?

Companies focus too much on what they want to sell their customers, rather than what those customers really need. What's missing is empathy: a deep understanding of what problems customers are trying to solve.