Quotes with selling

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  • H. Youngman If my mother knew I did this for a living, she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope.
    H. Youngman
    American comedian and violinist (1906 - 1998)
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  • Aaron C. Brown If you want to understand financial markets, and their effects on the economy, you have to understand the trading game. Many short-term price movements are neither random nor caused by economic fundamentals. They're caused by investors buying and selling.
    The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 1
    Aaron C. Brown
    American finance practitioner (1956 - )
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  • Tony Alessandra In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.
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  • Carolyn McCarthy It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked.
    Carolyn McCarthy
    American nurse and politician (1944 - )
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  • Anthony Trollope It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Bill Paxton It's easy to get jaded. It's easy to get lazy. It's easy to get too self-centric, like, 'Why me? What about my needs?' It has nothing to do with that. But you see, you are the thing you are selling whether you are a director or an actor in this business. It's very tough. The town doesn't realize that its greatest resource is its people.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Billy Crudup It's not that I don't want to be famous. It's just that I don't feel like the burden of responsibility on selling a film should be on the actors.
    Billy Crudup
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Bruce Coville Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Lewis H. Lapham More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth.
    Lewis H. Lapham
    American essayist and editor (1935 - )
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  • Billy Idol My dad was one of the reasons I got into rock and roll, because I was learning the ropes of his business, which was selling powertools, and I was looking for a way out from under his heel. I was like, 'Where's the fun? Where's the glamour?'
    Billy Idol
    English musician, singer, songwriter, and actor (1955 - )
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  • Aaron Klug My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Bill Bailey My first job was selling doors, door to door. That's a tough job isn't it? Bing Bong; Hello, can I interest you in a- oh shit you've got one already haven't you? Well never mind...
    Part Troll
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Boman Irani Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Selling potato chips was obvious, as it was a family business. When friends suggested I should try theatre, I gave it a shot. Then I did a lot of advertisements, and then movies happened.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Ad Reinhardt Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.
    Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt
    Ad Reinhardt
    American abstract painter (1913 - 1967)
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  • Harold Rosenberg Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause, it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.
    Harold Rosenberg
    American art criticus, writer (1906 - 1978)
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  • Carey Mulligan 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!
    Carey Mulligan
    English actress (1985 - )
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  • Carey Mulligan 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!'
    Carey Mulligan
    English actress (1985 - )
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  • Zig Ziglar Selling is essentially a transfer of feelings.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Bono Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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