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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."

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

"Actually, we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records, yet, they treat us with tons of respect and give us some very good guidance."

"Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in."

"I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final."

"It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked."

"We were at Pye Studios for half an hour so we set the gear up and we did two tracks. A month later we found out it was selling thirty thousand copies a day."
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"A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen."

"Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part."

"Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'."

"Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do."

"We don't have to go that far to sell our beer because our immediate accounts sell so much. Places that sold 10 cases before, now they're selling 30."
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