Selling Quotes - page 12

I like the honesty about direct selling because it openly tells people the way to get rich is residual income: Get paid tomorrow for something you did yesterday - and let it accumulate. (Paul Zane Pilzer)
In the early 2000s, I started selling some short stories to horror markets. I joined the Horror Writers Association. View quote
Paul G. Tremblay
Over the long run, the price of gold approximates the total amount of money in circulation divided by the size of the gold stock. If the market price of gold moves a long way from this level, it may indicate a buying or selling opportunity. View quote
Ray Dalio
When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love. View quote
Rainbow Rowell
They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a house and coming back three years later and saying, 'Paint it this color!' View quote
Robert B. Parker
Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing. View quote
Rod Stewart
What often, too often, happens in magazines is that you end up with a great editorial product, and then you're selling things that you don't really approve of. View quote
Ruth Reichl
I've been very successful at selling my things, but I've also been getting up at 4 in the morning for 40 years. View quote
Stephen J. Cannell
The point to remember about selling things is that, as well as creating atmosphere and excitement around your products, you've got to know what you're selling. View quote
Stuart Wilde
At a time when there's younger writers starting up and it's inevitable that you're becoming less fashionable, at a time when the industrial pressures apply more and more to books, how do you keep a book you wrote 28 years ago selling well year on year? Because it really is getting harder. View quote
William Boyd
Ramp hawkers were peddling "methods,” low priced sure-fire theories guaranteed to predict bottle twitches and beat the whole Minimax game. The hawkers were ignored by the hurrying throngs of people; anybody with a genuine system of prediction would be using it, not selling it. (Philip K. Dick)
Selling is the easiest job in the world if you work it hard-but the hardest job in the world if you try to work it easy. View quote
Frank Bettger
Before that I had largely thought of selling as just a way of making a living for myself. I had dreaded to go in to see people, for fear I was making a nuisance of myself. But now I was inspired! I resolved right then to dedicate the rest of my selling career to this principle: finding out what people want, and helping them get it. View quote
Frank Bettger
When you're selling a product or service, you don't have - it doesn't have to be absolutely perfect, although I've provided language that is. When you're a politician, one wrong word changes the entire - changes the meaning of something. View quote
Frank Luntz
The Sookie Stackhouse novels were selling well before the TV show, but the TV show led to a lot more exposure and readers. And a lot went on to read my other work. It was a wonderful thing for my bank account. View quote
Charlaine Harris
There's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences. View quote
Shia LaBeouf
Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
If you believe that happiness can be bought, then why don't you try selling some of yours? View quote
Ernie J Zelinski
I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level the transition to digital isn't something I welcome wholeheartedly. View quote
Barry Eisler
My dad was one of the reasons I got into rock and roll, because I was learning the ropes of his business, which was selling powertools, and I was looking for a way out from under his heel. I was like, 'Where's the fun? Where's the glamour?' View quote
Billy Idol
When 'Ice Ice Baby' was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a palace in Miami and a mountain cabin in Utah. Then, a few years later, I took a break from touring, saw that my properties had cobwebs, so I sold them, and - to my surprise - I made a huge profit! (Vanilla Ice)
Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online. View quote
Gus Van Sant
The ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to both sales and non-sales selling. And the social science research on perspective-taking yields some important lessons for all of us. View quote
Daniel H. Pink
One of the best predictors of ultimate success in either sales or non-sales selling isn't natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections. View quote
Daniel H. Pink
A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference. View quote
David Almond