Top 100 Sells Quotes
#1. Everybody sells something to somebody every day, whether it's a product, a service or just a case of making sure that they get their own way.
Chris Murray
#2. People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.
Michael Jackson
#3. If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.
Ice-T
#4. Everything sells. Like integrity. Like democracy. Like truth. Like deeds.
Steven Weber
#5. How do you design the product in a way so that it sells itself?.
Regis McKenna
#6. Earlier this week - this is crazy - the country's first marijuana cafe opened up, which not only sells medical marijuana, but also has a restaurant where customers can eat. In a related story, the recession is over.
Conan O'Brien
#7. A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop?
Donald Trump
#8. My mother said I broke her heart ... but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us ... but within that inch we are free.
Alan Moore
#9. Roughly speaking, when you are dealing with business firms operating in a competitive system, you can assume that they're going to act rationally. Why? Because someone in a firm who buys things at $10 and sells them for $8.00 isn't going to last very long in that firm.
Ronald Coase
#10. If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.
Nikki Sixx
#11. I tell people all of the time that they would make any show in this business - whether it's black, white, Hispanic, Jewish, Colombian, Dominican - whatever. They'll make it if it sells. It's a business. It's not personal.
Kirk Acevedo
#12. You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and 'behind the scenes,' and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.
Daniel Craig
#13. There's no money in that," said Will. "Farmers don't make any money. It's the man who buys from him and sells. You'll never make any money farming." Will knew that Cal was feeling him, testing him, observing him, and he approved of that.
John Steinbeck
#14. Anning would spend the next thirty-five years gathering fossils, which she sold to visitors. (She is commonly held to be the source for the famous tongue twister "She sells seashells on the seashore.")
Bill Bryson
#15. When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that's what sells records and then you realize, 'All I have to do is be myself? I should have thought of that a long time ago,' it feels good to have success come from what's actually inside of you.
Jessica Simpson
#16. Love neither lends nor borrows; Love neither buys nor sells; but when it gives, it gives it s all; and when it takes, it takes its all. Its very taking is a giving. Its very giving is a taking. Therefore is it the same to-day, to-morrow and forevermore.
Mikhail Naimy
#17. Gold and silver are but merchandise, as well as cloth or linen; and that nation that buys the least, and sells the most, must always have the most money.
Lord Chesterfield
#18. In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an actor. I don't think there's a real person left in the place.
Neil Gaiman
#19. 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.
Chuck Zito
#20. It's nice to have a game that sells a million copies.
John Carmack
#21. It's not my style to either wear minimum clothes, to strip, or to even be comfortable with a sex-symbol label. I just want to do good work instead of sporting such meaningless tags. Sex sells, but to a small extent, not always. And this is what filmmakers have to accept.
Katrina Kaif
#22. An entrepreneur sells his thoughts and ideas as a packaged product.
Debasish Mridha
#23. A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.
Pablo Picasso
#24. Mexico is the second most important destination of U.S. exports. What does this mean? The U.S. sells to our country almost the same as it sells to all the European Union, five times what it sells Brazil. More than what it sells together to Brazil, Russia, China, and India.
Enrique Pena Nieto
#25. The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.
Benjamin Graham
#27. We're obviously going to spend a lot in marketing because we think the product sells itself.
Jim Allchin
#28. He simply wanted more money without additional responsibility. A sound investment. That is the sort of fellow that makes other people's Empire possible. Sells his birthright to a foreigner.
James Aldridge
#29. I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I can give you a long list of books which should have been best sellers but they aren't. How can you buy a book if you haven't heard of it?
Amish Tripathi
#31. The executives who run the fast food industry are not bad men. They are businessmen. They will sell free-range, organic, grass-fed hamburgers if you demand it. They will sell whatever sells at a profit.
Eric Schlosser
#32. Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.
Tiger Woods
#33. When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
Henry Ward Beecher
#34. My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. The responses were things like, my dad sells money, and my dad figures stuff out. My son said, 'I've never seen my dad do work.' It's true. Skateboarding doesn't seem like real work, but I'm proud of what I do.
Tony Hawk
#35. That is originally why the concept evolved to include accessories. We found that furniture sells better when you show it with accessories.
Joseph Roth
#36. Man is a social being; it's not surprising we love social proofs, it sells brands fast
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#37. The irony about selling out is that they only call you a sell-out when your stuff finally sells - I've had products bearing my name since I was 14, but nobody was buying them then.
Tony Hawk
#40. There's no white comic that sells tickets to black people like me. They're going to get their hair done, get a new outfit, and come out to see a white dude.
Gary Owen
#41. I never feel like I need to make a song that sells 5 million copies; that's not the point of why I make music. It's great if that happens, like it did with 'Clarity,' but my goal is to always make a better track than the last one.
Zedd
#42. I don't think I have to combat Airbnb. It is like comparing Tiffany to a shop that sells things for one dollar.
Harry Triguboff
#43. The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.
Mickey Spillane
#44. Those who love him love that he sells the most art; they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.
Jerry Saltz
#45. The average American salesmen keeps 33 men and women at work - 33 people producing the product he sells ... and is responsible for the livelihood of 130 people.
Robert A. Whitney
#46. Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.
Ambrose Bierce
#47. I've never been asked to do a collaboration. I guess I just don't give off that come-and-get-me vibe. I wouldn't be adverse to doing one with Coldplay or U2 - anyone who sells 50 million albums.
Noel Gallagher
#48. I couldn't pick up a sword and go fight anyone, let me put it that way. It's choreography and it's acting. The best sword fights you see look amazing, but it's the acting that sells it more than anything.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
#49. I wrote and finished the script for 'Man in the Middle' two weeks after the September 11 bombing. It's a very American film about an ex-diplomat based in the Middle East, a leader in the U.S. administration who now sells used cars in the Middle East.
Ziad Doueiri
#50. Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.
M.J. Rose
#51. You see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well, and people make a lot of money out of you.
Princess Diana
#52. I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
Terence McKenna
#53. The #1 guideline to success is you must be in business for yourself. When you work for someone else, you sell your time at wholesale to your employer, who then re-sells it at retail to the customer.
J. Paul Getty
#54. We are women. We are attractive. We have great bodies. You can't escape that fact, so why not use it to our advantage? If sex sells, I'm all for it.
Lisa Leslie
#55. Have you heard the saying, 'sex sells'? Well, I'm the supplier.
Lyra Parish
#56. Content that helps is superior to content that sells.
Jay Baer
#57. Art work is inconclusive. It opens your mind up. At least, that's what I hope it does. And advertising, using exactly the same photograph, closes things down. It makes it conclusive. It sells a product, and that is its primary function.
Alison Jackson
#58. Art that sells on production is bad art, essentially. It is art that is made to demand. It suits the public. The taste of the public is bad. The taste of the public is always bad. It is bad because it is not an individual expression, but merely a mania for assent, a mania to be 'in on it'.
Ezra Pound
#59. Ottolenghi sells lots of delicious sweet things, but my daily addiction is their unbelievable dark chocolate salted caramel biscuits. They're the best things in the world - I go through half a packet every night. I bring them out after pudding at dinner parties.
Trinny Woodall
#60. I'd rather donate 10% of my earnings to homeless people on the street than to an organization that sells negativity that I'll never defeat.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#61. When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in - if they could, they would do so.
Bill Gates
#62. In a world where the people are numbed and distracted, the only thing that sells is the unbelievable.
James Redfield
#63. One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
William Feather
#64. 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.
Earl Campbell
#65. When bad news sells, money politics buys.
Toba Beta
#66. That's a real sign of the times - can you imagine Nick Cave wearing a hoodie? He may not wear one, but he definitely sells them.
Ian Astbury
#67. I am stuck in the dream of an album that sells well not because of marketing, but because people like the songs.
Steven Morrissey
#68. Wilder is not a big draw in the U.S. He maybe sells 5,000 to 10,000 tickets when he's fighting in his own town for the heavyweight champion.
Tyson Fury
#69. I'm more interested in a world that works than what sells
Paul MacCready
#72. We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
Jean De La Fontaine
#73. People like controversy because that's what sells.
Miley Cyrus
#74. 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.
Roger Staubach
#75. Sex sells, unless you're dehydrated in which case you'd be much more likely to purchase water.
Dov Davidoff
#76. A man who sells his conscience for his interest will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country will betray his friend.
Maria Edgeworth
#78. If you want to get rich with a tax free enterprise that sells nothing, start a church.
Bill Maher
#79. Demagoguery sells. And therefore radio stations will put it on. But that doesn't mean that you can't do something else and also make it sell. You know, when I look at an Ann Coulter or I look at a Rush or I look at a Sean Hannity, I think to myself, 'What kind of self-image do you have?'
Al Franken
#80. 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.
Lester Bowie
#81. I'm doing the absolute opposite of giving myself away. As far as I'm concerned, I'll be completely visible. If the painting sells, I'll be in Paris, hanging on a wall. If anything, I'm being selfish. It's perfect; all the freedom of creation, with none of the fuss.
Jessie Burton
#82. 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.
Eric Avery
#83. Here's a guy [Marco Rubio] - here's a guy that buys a house for $179,000, he sells it to a lobbyist who's probably here for $380,000 and then legislation is passed. You tell me about this guy. This is what we're going to have as president.
Donald Trump
#84. You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
Cameron Diaz
#85. There's a large opportunity for Bon Iver to be a special thing, even from a business standpoint - just trying to do cooler things. Every band sells t-shirts and plays certain auditoriums, but I'm sick of being like everyone else, because I'm not.
Justin Vernon
#86. I always felt that the music sells by itself. The music has always been the successful aspect on my career, and that means that, to me, I can always still stay very focused on music.
Enya
#87. I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy.
Matt Damon
#88. I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
Halsey
#89. I mean, there's always somebody in somebody's administration who jumps out early, sells a book, and goes after the guy who hired him, ... I don't know if that's good. It may be good business; it's not good politics.
Bob Dole
#90. The National Bank at profit sells road maps for the soul.
Bob Dylan
#91. Salespeople move an economy of a nation. Someone could have invented the most amazing invention that is going to be a revolution for a planet, but that product goes nowhere unless someone sells it to someone else.
Michael Delaware
#92. In the area of radical youth culture nothing sells as well as well-packaged and politically correct rebellion against a world that is ruled by political correctness and in which everything is packaged to be sold.
Victor Pelevin
#93. He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
Ben Jonson
#94. Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young and old at once, my daughter and my grandmother. In school she excelled in mathematics and poetry ... Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her.
J. Ruth Gendler
#95. To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.
Ken Burns
#96. A false-statement requires deceit and distortion for someone to buy it, but a truthful-statement sells itself.
William Bailey
#97. The vast bulk of Murdoch's news output, including the huge majority of any falsehood and distortion, is simply the spontaneous product of his highly commercialised newsrooms. It sells.
Nick Davies
#98. Confidence sells
people believe in those who believe in themselves. No one wants to be stuck in a room with other people who feel like they don't deserve to be there. Stop wondering if you're good enough. Know you are, and start acting like it.
Simon Black
#99. People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.
Isaac Mizrahi
#100. Word of mouth sells books. Want to sell more books, learn to write better!
Thomas Wilson
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