Selling Quotes - Page 8

I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.

If the networks can get audiences to tolerate pop-up promos by the dozens, maybe they'll start selling pop-up commercials, too.

The tabloids operate in an amoral parallel universe where the bottom line is selling newspapers.

Facebook stock continues to plummet. People started selling once they found out their mom bought it too.

I don't know how many records I'm selling.

When my books came out, they started selling but they started selling at a relatively consistent but low pace. And they started to pick up the pace.

Don't be afraid to start out small. You see tech companies selling for millions, but you shouldn't be afraid to start small and grow it. I work closely with my employees. I don't believe in things working if you're not passionate about things.

Buying's easier, selling's hard - [it's] hard to know when to get out.

Always look for forced urgent selling.

I want to be in a position where I feel comfortable selling an idea.

Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it.

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.

They even let me do the ads for the album. I definitely want it all to be presented right, but I don't want to be selling. I mean, people do deluxe editions, and I don't even really know how I feel about those yet.

A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.

If you have information that a company is not as good as its stock market valuation, you don't have a way to sell that stock unless you already own it. And so that information doesn't get incorporated in the company's stock price as fast if you don't allow short selling.

I've watched people who were better actors than me disappear, and they're selling insurance now.

I am very generous with my dealers in terms of the art that they have of mine. They all have a very good selection of work that they can work with. And it is up to them to find the dealers. I don't interfere with their selling.

There's nothing weirder than when your band finally gets big and you're playing sold-out arenas and you're selling millions of records, and you dread being a part of it all. It wasn't some master plan to go solo. I was just like, I would rather do my own thing, be happy, and have it be ten times less popular. That was really it. It just wasn't fun, the stress.

I feel like every movie is definitely the last one that I've had my moment; that I'm going to be selling autographs at malls.

I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so only if all traditional publishers had turned them down.

Because you’re such a good salesman, and if you go work for a company, they’re going to use you as a salesman. If you’re going to be a salesman, you might as well be selling something worthwhile, like education

[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.

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

I don't know if there will ever be an ideal way of selling an original picture. Because everything you're doing, you're inventing.

Yes, when they're buying there are more buyers in the market and that's supportive of the price. The more buyers you have, the firmer the price is going to be. When central banks were selling it was a headwind the market had to overcome. Now it's a tailwind that central banks are joining the buyers.