Sell Quotes

An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made.

What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself.

I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones.

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.

All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.

Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.

Only a certain number of people go to a store over the period of a year. When a person sees my record on the shelf, it eliminates someone else's record from being sold. It's about continuing to try to find new ways to sell records.

I was a telemarketer in my senior year at high school. I had to sell prosthetic limbs to paralysed veterans. I was making 150 bucks a week and it was horrible.

My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.

Don't try to explain it, just sell it.

So, I don't know what is going to happen when the CD comes out, how well it will sell, etc. But, from a personal point of view, it was a very worthwhile endeavor.

I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly well established now, which is the substitution for a real sense of a country of a hideous distortion which you can sell to the people called 'heritage'.

If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money.

Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space.

One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.

We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.

In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope.

I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?

When we are out there selling a new picture, when did it become part of the deal that you have to sell the family? To use the juicy part of your life to get attention? I'm not blaming the reporters. It's the system.

Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

That was the crossover line for us, to be able to play that many shows, sell them out real quick and have that tribe queue up outside and still be a mystery to everybody else.

The pollution they produce, market, sell, and show to billions around the world is at its core contemptuous of the country that gave them better lives than nearly 100 percent of everybody who's ever lived. And they pass that contempt along for everyone to see.

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.

But a lot of businesses out there don't see the return on investment, they look at it as a liability, and until they can understand that proactive security actually returns, gives them a return on investment, it's still a hard sell for people.

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.