Selling Quotes

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world? (Steve Jobs)

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

Frank Zappa

You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

P. J. O'Rourke

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

P. J. O'Rourke

Is it really selling out if it feeds your family?

Michael Madsen

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Abraham Maslow

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Benjamin Franklin

Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.

Edward Bellamy

Anybody that says different is selling something.

William Goldman

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. (Sinclair Lewis)

If a man smiles all the time, he's probably selling something that doesn't work.

George Carlin

Writers are always selling somebody out.

Joan Didion

A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.

Leo Burnett

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

Calvin Coolidge

We are all advertising, all of the time. If you want to sell your car, what do you do? You clean and polish it and make it the best you can. Some people bake bread when they are trying to sell their house because the smell adds a friendly feeling. Even the priest, with all his or her fervour, is advertising God. Everybody is selling.

Paul Arden

All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent of the normal market prices and people are going to be tricked into providing their credit card numbers.

Kevin Mitnick

I have the idea that running shoes are based on a kind of cult idea - that our feet are flawed and we need shoes to correct those flaws. The shoe companies are in the business of selling shoes. But there's no evidence from running shoe manufacturers that they're right. There's no scientific data that running shoes reduce injury.

Christopher McDougall

I was studying acting, going to UCLA, selling real estate on the weekends.

Burt Ward

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.

Adam Rich

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way. (David Korten)

It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much.

Eddie Campbell

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

John Forbes Nash

I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.

Stephen L. Carter

In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling.

Gore Vidal

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