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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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"Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again."
66
"I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something."
58
"Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing."
57
"I'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line."
55
"Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it."
52
"Salesmanship is limitless. Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople."
51
"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."
46
"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."
45
"Slow, Deep And Hard was a great album, even though it was probably our least selling record."
45
"Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn."
44
"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."
43
"Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm."
43
"Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless."
43
"A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well."
41
"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."
41
"Yeah, I just have a little part in it. In the house that Brian Cox barbecued himself appears in The Ring 2; I am the real estate agent that is selling the house, and Naomi Watts comes to check out the house as part of her investigation."
40
"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."
40
"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."
39
"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."
38
"I did commercials since I was 16, and that's kind of acting, depending on what you're selling."
38
"I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final."
37
"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."
36
"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."
35
"Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me."
34
"Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information."
34
"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."
34
"The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print."
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