I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?
Andy Rooney

I sell escapism.
Jimmy Buffett

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.
Jesus Christ

If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.
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

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

The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.
David Ogilvy

I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.
Elliott Smith

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things.
Julie Christie

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

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

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.
Sara Teasdale

I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell, or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.
Martha Stewart

One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.
George W. Bush

Everyone has favorite criminals. Mine are pimps. We can all rob a bank; we can all sell drugs. Being a pimp is a whole other thing.
Chris Rock

The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell records.
Nikki Sixx

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message.
William Bernbach

Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that will inform and serve the consumer, and be sure you're saying it like it's never been said before.
William Bernbach