"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."

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"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."

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"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, British Musician

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"I was studying acting, going to UCLA, selling real estate on the weekends."

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"During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts to private and public sector buyers."

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"Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries."

Terry Southern, American Writer

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"I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that."

Arthur Levitt, American Public Servant

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"Not offering this kind of guarantee means that they do not believe in their product enough, and they do not care about if a salesman is over promising or over selling their product."

Matthew Lesko, American Entertainer

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

Norman Ralph Augustine, American Author

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"I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next."

Fred Saberhagen, American Author

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

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange."

William Petty, English Economist

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