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

Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesn't go by when I don't hear something wonderful that someone has made in some low-budget situation, primarily with a view to selling a few hundred copies at their concerts.
David Knopfler

Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.
Marissa Mayer

People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap, at least you get the soap. In this campaign you just get two guys telling you they really value cleanliness.
David Brooks

's one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling.
Jonathan Franzen

Salesmanship is limitless. Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople.
James Cash Penney

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.
Rudy Rucker

Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with people. You also needed business skills. You knew you needed to sell a certain amount of boxes, so that gave me some business sense.
Maria Bartiromo

Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.
Charles Grassley

Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.
Don Henley

Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn.
James Cash Penney

Slow, Deep And Hard was a great album, even though it was probably our least selling record.
Josh Silver

That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are not winning the global trade war, we are losing it badly.
Marcy Kaptur

The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat. That is why we must do more to open Cuba - not less.
Max Baucus

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

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
Adam Osborne

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.
Michael Dell

The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it.
Don Bluth

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

The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print.
Daniel Starch