Top 100 Sells Quotes
#1. I never seem to be able to sell my films correctly in the U.S. The U.S. defends itself on its own turf.
Michel Ocelot
#2. A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.
Grandma Moses
#3. There's nothing that you can sell me that can make me happy.
Jon Foreman
#4. Our job in gospel is not going away. It's a sustainable genre. It sells - without question.
Marvin Sapp
#5. Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.
Aloe Blacc
#6. What people in business think they know about the customer and market is likely to be more wrong than right ... the customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him.
Peter Drucker
#7. We live in a culture that sells sex, promotes sex, and degrades sex, yet God calls His daughters to live as light in this darkness.
Marian Jordan Ellis
#8. Buy on the cannons and sell on the trumpets.
John Neff
#9. Honest always sells. Always has, always will.
Ryan Tedder
#10. When a leader buys his own excuses, he also, unfortunately, sells them to his team.
Orrin Woodward
#11. Don't ever sell mankind short by saying there's anything they can't do.
Fredric Brown
#12. Producers and studios know what sells. It's nice to be one of the guys that can help sell a movie by taking his shirt off.
Kellan Lutz
#13. Every show that sells out is like a hero's welcome for me.
Gil Scott-Heron
#14. Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
Charles Baudelaire
#15. 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.
Lynette Fromme
#16. What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.
Javan
#18. Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.
Peter Diamandis
#20. Does Hollywood do movies about terrorism? Yeah. And why do they do that? Because it sells.
Faran Tahir
#21. A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well.
Ben Lovett
#23. We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us.
Karl Marx
#24. Stupidity has made enormous progress. It's a sun so shining that we can no longer look at it directly. Thanks to communication media, it's no longer the same, it's nourished by other myths, it sells extremely well, it has ridiculed good sense and it's spreading its terrifying power.
Ennio Flaiano
#25. If you wish to sell to anyone you must earn the right to do so.
Chris Murray
#26. The hours Facebook users put into their profiles and lists and updates is the labor that Facebook then sells to the market researchers and advertisers it serves.
Douglas Rushkoff
#27. They sell pot named after me in the dispensaries. And I'm not even a pot guy. I was so honored.
Charlie Sheen
#28. We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle.
"Has a European feel" Susan said.
"That sounds terrific" I said. "Can I have one?"
Susan grinned at me. "How did you ever get to be so big without growing up?" she said.
"Iron self-control" I said.
Robert B. Parker
#29. We live in the Internet age. Everyone wants clicks. Clicks are what sells.
Trevor Noah
#30. It's a lot easier to buy things than it is to sell them.
Warren Buffett
#32. What really sells a fight, and any kind of action, is the performance of it. If someone is uncomfortable or uncertain about doing action because they're too concerned about their safety or about being right, it pulls them out of being that character, in that situation.
Zoe Bell
#33. Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
Pat Summitt
#34. Sell yourself before you try to sell your company or your product.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#35. Youngsters want to change world. Elders want to enjoy their works.
The entrepreneur sells anything needed by both to win their desires.
Toba Beta
#36. I want to make a vending machine that sells vending machines. It'd have to be real big.
Mitch Hedberg
#37. The devil's script sells you the heart of a blackbird.
Elliott Smith
#38. A good friend is the one who stand up for you and not the one who sells you out
Beta Metani'Marashi
#39. In those jaws of swift destruction, like another Jonah (by which name they indeed called him), bustles a little withered old man, who, for their money, dearly sells the sailors deliriums and death. Abominable are the tumblers into which he pours his poison.
Herman Melville
#41. Apple enjoys 'Harry Potter'-like adoration and queues because it sells physical objects, limited by the pace of assembly lines in China. To own is to have, to have is to hold, and to hold is to show off.
Douglas Rushkoff
#42. You may buy from me in your own language, but sell to me in mine.
Willy Brandt
#43. Turns out that a real-estate agent keeps her own home on the market an average of ten days longer and sells it for an extra 3-plus percent, or $10,000 on a $300,000 house.
Steven D. Levitt
#44. Don't sell out who you really are to make others happy.
Jo Dee Messina
#45. Once you're in sales, you will also learn what sells and what not. Use the sensitivity of detecting market sentiments as a platform for running your business and in the identification of product winners in the future.
Li Ka-shing
#46. I'd literally rather hang out at the T.G.I. Friday's in New Jersey than tool around at a place that sells $40 cheeseburgers.
Patrick Carney
#47. I just want to do movies, and I want to sell them. I don't want to link up with some product.
Robin Williams
#48. Maybe he sells fear because he's got nothing else to sell.
Stephen King
#49. Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him, to survive it you play deaf and dumb.
Bob Dylan
#50. Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
#51. I'll be one of the spokespeople, one of the people who sells the Administration's plans.
Donna Shalala
#52. Fear sells better than sex and the iPhone 5 combined.
Greg Palast
#53. I hate the things they preach. They found a gimmick that sells. The fact that they're making money off all these teenage kids who actually believe in their message is disgusting.
Christina Ricci
#54. Making good records tastes good in your mouh. And when that record sells, it tastes even better.
Courtney Love
#55. He sells his loyalties to the highest bidder. Shouldn't even a mercenary have morals? That's the textbook definition of a whore!
Nadia Scrieva
#56. The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books, and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it comes out, and two reviews are published, and it sells 12 copies.
George R R Martin
#57. Every single line on the Oscar show is negotiated. Unless you've been there, you have no idea how it is put together. It's like nothing else on earth. I'm writing a book about it, but I have to throw in my sexual escapades to make sure it sells.
Bruce Vilanch
#58. Nobody sells native advertising better than BuzzFeed, with an entire staff devoted to creating its trademark listicles and quizzes just for sponsors: How To Rank Your Happiness By Jars Of Nutella
Jeff Jarvis
#59. One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility.'
Geoffrey Canada
#60. My wife, Daniela, and I live in an old house from 1810 with three fireplaces at the end of a dead-end dirt road on Cape Cod, so I turn the trees into firewood for us and a friend of mine sells the rest.
Sebastian Junger
#61. He that sells upon Credit expects to lose 5 per Cent. By bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon Credit, an Advance that shall make up that Deficiency.
Benjamin Franklin
#63. Offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships.
Bear Bryant
#66. People only buy when they're ready to buy. Not when you're ready to sell
Drayton Bird
#67. The easiest story to sell is the story we want to buy.
Scott Van Pelt
#68. It's because fear sells. It's because war is sport. And it's also very good business.
Hugh Howey
#69. It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much.
Eddie Campbell
#70. Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
Vladimir Lenin
#71. GE sells more than 96 percent of its products to the private sector, where America's future must be built. But government can help business invest in our shared future.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#72. What's that show? 'TMZ'? They stand there and say, 'I've got this on this person.' The focus on celebrities can be detrimental because people could be thinking of other things, but it's a part of the culture and it's what sells.
Andre Leon Talley
#73. Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want.
John Waters
#74. 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.
George Steinbrenner
#75. My biggest advice would be to take the pictures you want to take. Don't think about the marketplace, what sells or what an editor might say. And don't think about style. It's all bullshit and surface stuff. Style happens.
David LaChapelle
#76. If you don't do what Fear says ... you'll go ahead and speak up, you'll sign up, you'll buy, you'll sell, you'll jump.
Danielle LaPorte
#77. Before selling, try to re-evaluate the company again and see where the stock sells in realtion to its book value.
Walter Schloss
#78. To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.
Decimus Laberius
#79. Sometimes you make very interesting movies that aren't meant for everybody. But this is a capitalist society, so everything conspires to put value on whether it sells or not.
Willem Dafoe
#80. Hate always sells well, but for repeat trade and the long pull happiness is sounder merchandise.
Robert A. Heinlein
#81. You've to make consumers smart. An e-commerce portal doesn't sell a product at cheaper rates, instead an offline shop sells it at a costlier prices.
Jack Ma
#82. For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money.
George Orwell
#83. Time is the ultimate long tail. Even with a big wad of money up front, if something sells forever, the back end is what ultimately counts.
J.A. Konrath
#84. Most centers offer a one-program-fits all type of service, which is rather like a department store that sells one-size fits all clothing.
Chris Prentiss
#85. Because it is so scatterbrained and has absolutely no charts and graphs, I'm actually quite surprised the Bible sells.
Donald Miller
#86. 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.
Oscar Peterson
#87. A good writer sells out everybody he knows, sooner or later.
Alice McDermott
#88. The Christmas market at the Barcelona Cathedral sells all kinds of things for your Nativity scene. It will also give you a good idea of Catalan culture.
Jose Andres
#91. Truth is not for sale. The man who sells truths that could help and guide humanity will never have peace of mind. Share truths freely, and you will always be revealed more.
Suzy Kassem
#92. What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?
Mahatma Gandhi
#93. What is a good advertisement? An advertisement which pleases you because of its style, or an advertisement which sells the most? They are seldom the same.
David Ogilvy
#94. In banking or insurance trust is the only thing you have to sell.
Patrick Dixon
#95. The general public believes that if a health claim is on the label the government backs that up, ... This sells food products, no question.
Marion Nestle
#96. It follows that unless your headline sells your product, you have wasted 90 percent of your money ...
David Ogilvy
#97. Worst music ever sells millions. The worst music with the shittiest lyrics. The fact is that they pay radio stations to put it on the radio, then you've heard it a million times when you're driving from your shitty job to your shitty house. It's indoctrination, it's sad.
Sia Furler
#98. To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.
Emma Goldman
#99. I can't stand Beyonce. The way she sells it so hard, constantly. Everything is shoved right in your face. Like, you don't have the sense to make a judgment of your own.
Todd Rundgren
#100. Sell Not Yourself At Little Price, Being So Precious In
God's Eyes.
Rumi
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