Selling Quotes

We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world.
Jim Henson

Work, Design, Fun

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.
John Mayer

Music, Happen, Playing

There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.
Henry Louis Gates

Two, Stories, Heard

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.
Emma Thompson

Job, Same, Around

Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.
Bono

My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents, which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me.
Giada De Laurentiis

Love, Family, Food

I'm not sure about the selling part, but I've always found that the things I've worn on tour have moved over to what people wear every day. Sometimes the things I wore in the beginning before I had money were things I put together.
Steven Tyler

Money, Together, Before

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Book, Somehow, Sold

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

Power, Sell, Jingles

The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the opposite. When everyone else is buying, we assume they know something we don't, so we buy. Then people start selling, panic sets in, and we sell too.
Jonathan Sacks

Others, Else, Start

You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
Alan Alda

Business, School, Major

Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.
Rod Stewart

Music, Battle, Singing

Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
Abu Bakr

Same, Measure, Purchasing

People want to talk about whether I have rock cred, whether I'm selling out, the theatricality, the gay stuff... Chill out! And just enjoy yourself.
Adam Lambert

Rock, Yourself, Gay

As it happens, Chicago is the nation's leader in municipal privatization efforts. That's right: The city that conservatives portray as the citadel of the power-grabbing, government-growing left has been selling itself off in pieces for years. It signed a 99-year lease for the Chicago Skyway, a toll road in the city's South Side, back in 2005.
Thomas Frank

Leader, Off, Nation

Selling public property is the true Chicago way. Had Mr. Obama not been elected president, the nation's business journals would be falling over one another to praise his city for its daring, market-friendly innovations.
Thomas Frank

Business, True, Another

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
Cornel West

Power, Society, Pleasure

Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed.
David Suzuki

Money, Live, Energy

Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo.
Eric Schmidt

Technology, Another, Results

There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation.
James Buchan

Age, Find, Times

My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.
Reba McEntire

Life, Family, Time

I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.
Mark Cuban

Work, Business, Hard

I love to meet my fans, and after every show I usually hang out for a few hours, talking to my fans, signing autographs, and selling T-shirts.
Tommy Chong

Love, After, Show

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
Sinclair Lewis

Economic, Valuable, Worthless

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
Norman Ralph Augustine

Advice, Market, Expert

Writers are always selling somebody out.
Joan Didion

Somebody, Writers

How about no one's ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record industry is over. Game over. There's no more record stores. With no more record stores there's no more pressing plants. With no more pressing plants, there's no more charts.
will.i.am

Game, Industry, Plants

Electro is today's disco - making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharing it and touring around the world D.J.-ing.
will.i.am

Music, Today, Around

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.
James Taylor

Music, Enjoy, Living

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.
Gus Van Sant

Music, Making, Industry

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