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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."
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"I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something."
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"Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing."
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"Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it."
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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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"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."
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"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."
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"I'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line."
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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."
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"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."
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"Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn."
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"I did commercials since I was 16, and that's kind of acting, depending on what you're selling."
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"Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me."
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"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."
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"I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final."
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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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"Slow, Deep And Hard was a great album, even though it was probably our least selling record."
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"Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless."
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"Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm."
11
"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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"Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in."
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"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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"A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well."
10
"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."
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"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."
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"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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"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."
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