Selling Quotes

I'm not ashamed of selling millions of records. I'm very fortunate to be in that position.

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

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm.

Most of the contract people at MGM stayed and stayed and stayed. Why? Because the studio looked after them. Warner Brothers wouldn't - they were always spanking somebody or selling them down the river.

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!'

Evangelism is selling a dream.

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the last real job I had. I beat the system. I've been able to do this full-time for almost 15 years.

It's about listening first, then selling.

Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'

In advertising, sex sells. But only if you're selling sex.

For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.

Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again.

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'.

If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.

This is about black people selling out other black people.

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas.

Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem... ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress.

All my money was made doing the dates and selling products when I was out there on the road.

American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.

I would sell 2 million records, a million went to teenagers and a million went to the adults. So, when The Beatles became so popular, I lost a million to the teenagers, but I was still selling a million to the adults.

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