Selling Quotes

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
Oscar Wilde

Great, Nothing, Knows

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Benjamin Franklin

Himself, Pleasure, Thinks

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
Katharine Hepburn

Time, Nice, Yourself

Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.
Steve Jobs

Second, Songs, Million

Everyone lives by selling something.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Everyone, Lives

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
Og Mandino

Success, After, Victory

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa

Art, Nothing, Making

Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again.
Johnny Depp

Tomorrow, Again, Pens

Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.
Bill Gates

Time, Today, Mean

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
P. J. O'Rourke

Buying, Controlled, Bought

And now, of course this is another thing I didn't count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Another, State, Count

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
Calvin Coolidge

Business, After, American

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
Abraham Maslow

Women, Men, Human

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
P. J. O'Rourke

Government, Illegal, Product

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
Barry Goldwater

Business, American, Forgotten

I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out.
Chuck Palahniuk

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
William Goldman

Life, Pain, Anyone

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.
Alice Walker

Nothing, Problem, Big

A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.
Leo Burnett

Good, Today, Yourself

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
Robert Orben

Time, History, True

I buy when other people are selling.
J. Paul Getty

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge.
George W. Bush

Good, Book, Giving

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope.
Henny Youngman

Mother, Living, She

Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that, since almost no one will be selling art, artists - especially emerging ones - won't have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They'll be able to experiment as much as they want.
Jerry Saltz

Good, Money, Art

Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.
Chuck Jones

Sunshine, Human, Try

After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.
George Harrison

After, Making, Bit

All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent of the normal market prices and people are going to be tricked into providing their credit card numbers.
Kevin Mitnick

Normal, Percent, Market

I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.
Shia LaBeouf

Time, Dad, Long

There's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.
Shia LaBeouf

Christian, Become, Necessary

I've noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I'm not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.
David Byrne

Become, Getting, Talking

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