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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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"Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing."
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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."
"Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me."
"A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it."
"Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm."
"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."
"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."
"I'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line."
"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."
"The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it."
"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."
"Salesmanship is limitless. Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople."
"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."
"Slow, Deep And Hard was a great album, even though it was probably our least selling record."
"Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in."
"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."
"I did commercials since I was 16, and that's kind of acting, depending on what you're selling."
"Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again."
"I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something."
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