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Selling Quotes
"I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so only if all traditional publishers had turned them down."
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"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."
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"Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing."
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"I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something."
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"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."
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"Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again."
15
"Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it."
10
"Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me."
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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."
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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."
8
"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."
8
"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."
8
"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."
8
"I did commercials since I was 16, and that's kind of acting, depending on what you're selling."
8
"I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final."
8
"A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well."
7
"When I'm out hustling up new industries, I can offer Louisiana's many selling points. We have unmatched natural resources, a unique culture and fantastic workers."
7
"Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn."
7
"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."
7
"But in terms of the code by which we go to market - it's not telling kids to supersize, we're not selling them, generally, products, in the advertising we do to them."
7
"Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in."
7
"The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print."
7
"When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part of that is by making opportunities and paying decent wages."
6
"Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm."
6
"I'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line."
6
"Slow, Deep And Hard was a great album, even though it was probably our least selling record."
6
"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."
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