Sells Quotes

Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance.

There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads.

I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.

If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky.

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Of course, nothing happens until somebody sells something.

Obviously sex and nudity sells, but that's what people go to cable for but that's not going to happen on network daytime television... so I think it really is always going to come down to story. How do you make a story interesting enough so people will tune in? That's always going to be it.

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation.

TV is what sells your product.

I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.

At a car dealership, the person who sells the car is the hero, and also gets the commission. But if the mechanics don't service that car well, the customer won't return.

They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out.

People like controversy because that's what sells.

It's whatever sells; it's the business of it.

So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration.

Many musicians will say they don't care about the money yet they must commit themselves to appear at given times and places, and to produce what sells, whether they believe in it or not. It depends on contracts.

I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless.

My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a collaboration with Urban Outfitters right now, a shoe collaboration with Bass. She sells to Barneys, stuff like that.

Flesh sells. People don't want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies.

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

I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?'

Excellence always sells.

I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.

If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.