To Sell Quotes

#1. If you make a gun, you are either going to sell it or you are going to use it. And if you're going to sell it, someone else is going to use it.

Arthur Boyd

#2. Trade is a social act. Whoever undertakes to sell any description of any goods to the public, does what affects the interest of other persons, and of society in general; and thus his conduct, in principal, comes within the jurisdiction of society.

John Stuart Mill

#3. If you are opening a play, a play that's really about something, a play that's really about ideas, you have to find a way to sell that play.

Norbert Leo Butz

#4. What does it mean to sell the ayaat of Allah for a small price?
It is to change the meaning of ayaat in order to please people. By telling people whatever they need to be told in order for them to stay pleased with you. That is called selling the ayaat of Allah for a small price.

Nouman Ali Khan

#5. There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who makes over $200,000 per year and to try to sell the fraud that the government can equitably take the money of those who have earned it and give it to those who haven't.

Conrad Black

#6. I hate pork rinds. I couldn't imagine how anybody would ever get the idea of taking skin from a pig and frying it and then trying to sell it to people. And then people actually buy it to eat it. That is the true sign of the decline of the human race.

Joel Kinnaman

#7. I want to sell tracks but at the same time I want to stay true to the music I like. This is why I love the underground scene because they can stay true to what they want to do.

Rahki

#8. The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.

Roberto Cavalli

#9. My mother taught us to sell food in the market so we could pay for school. I would get up at 4:30 A.M. and start selling bread and cheese before going to class. School cost $65. The average salary was $125 a year, and with 10 kids, how are you going to pay for that?

Dikembe Mutombo

#10. But books, when you want to buy them, are costly and, when you need to sell them, valueless.

Gerald Kersh

#11. In army they say "Shoot to Kill" and in Sales "Pitch to Sell".

Honeya

#12. Like adverts, today's works of art aim to create a brand, even if they have no product to sell except themselves.

Roger Scruton

#13. I think I've done a pretty fantastic job, but of course I want to sell millions of records.

Rufus Wainwright

#14. Awards are always a pleasant surprise. They are the candy-floss parts of our job - a lovely added extra to attract people's attention. The bottom line is that you want to sell tickets.

Sophie Thompson

#15. It's important for me to sell a product that works.

Billy Mays

#16. British passion for Chinese tea was unstoppable, but the Chinese had no desire for our offerings, however much we tried to sell them woolen clothes or cutlery.

Kate Williams

#17. To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.

Robert A. Heinlein

#18. It's the greatest game I ever saw. You can't lose. Everybody buys to sell and nobody buys to keep. What's worrying me is who is going to be the last owner. It's just like an auction; the only one stuck is the last one.

Will Rogers

#19. What I'm saying is that, unlike a lot of portrayals of me, I'm not hiding behind the sunglasses. I'm out there working. I'm not trying to sell anybody anything, but I do realize we're entertainers.

David Duval

#20. Cannabis, just like morphine, has its usage in medicine. It's unpardonable that authorities forbid sick people access to this medicament and in majesty of law permit to sell cigarettes.

Jerzy Vetulani

#21. Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur: an ability to fail, an ability to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on those ideas, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.

James Altucher

#22. Technology is something we buy to sell to the customers. Ericsson, Nokia and IBM do technology for a living, so let's give it to them because they know best. It has made the business model of Bharti very, very sustainable.

Sunil Mittal

#23. There are a lot of people who are trying hard to sell themselves as Russian vodkas.

Roustam Tariko

#24. People who wish to go into the future should have two skills to succeed - the ability to deal with people and the ability to sell.

Shiv Khera

#25. Be less generous with your advice: live it instead. It is a bad situation when someone with a coughing fit attempts to sell a cough mixture. After all, action speaks far louder than words; living the example is the best advice you can ever give. Only examples have children.

Nana Awere Damoah

#26. When does he ever think?" Richard straddled a chair and accepted a wind cup from Raoul. "If he were to sell his brain, he could claim it had never been used.", Chapter 7

Sharon Kay Penman

#27. For three years, between 16 and 19, I was the opening-act-for-the-opening-act-for-the-opening-act, you know? And then I was on tour with Ice-T, Stetsasonic, EPMD, Sir Mix-a-Lot - legends - and went on to sell 160 million records. It still baffles me.

Vanilla Ice

#28. After you reach a certain age, they think you're over. Well, I will never be over. I'll be making records if I have to sell them out of the trunk of my car. I've done that in my past, and I'd do it again.

Dolly Parton

#29. When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.

Vladimir Lenin

#30. Life has loveliness to sell, / Music like a curve of gold, / Scent of pine trees in the rain, / Eyes that love you, arms that hold, / And for your spirit's still delight, / Holy thoughts that star the night.

Sara Teasdale

#31. I don't like to sell my finest pieces.

Beatrice Wood

#32. As opposed to coming up with something fantastic and trying to sell it to a studio, now all you have to do is get people to believe what you believe ...

Neil Drumming

#33. People ask 'How does doing a film compare to doing an ad?' Well, when you're doing a commercial you don't have to sell tickets. You have a captured audience. Which is actually completely rare and great; it gives you a lot of freedom. When you make a film, you have to do advertisements for the film.

Mike Mills

#34. No one ever expects poetry to sell.

Alan Lightman

#35. It's supposed to be raining Thank Yous on Thursday, after an ingratitude draught. Also, you'd better enjoy my love while it's fresh, before it goes rotten and I have to sell it to McDonald's as chicken filler.

Jarod Kintz

#36. The sole purpose of marketing is to sell more to more people, more often and at higher prices. There is no other reason to do it.

Sergio Zyman

#37. A man in the trading center was caught trying to sell his two young daughters. The buyer had informed the police. People were becoming desperate.

William Kamkwamba

#38. Unless I've got Katy Perry on the cover of my CD, it's going to be tough to sell a lot of records.

Kenny G

#39. Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge.

George Steinbrenner

#40. Every effective person must be able to sell and teach, whether in private or to a group in public. This applies equally to skills and talents as it does to products and services.

Archibald Marwizi

#41. You've got to be able to sell yourself.

Don Rickles

#42. I find myself for whatever reason unable to live in the apartment I renovate and have to sell.

Moby

#43. Making media companies that you hope to sell is not a lot of fun for anyone who cares deeply about making media.

John Battelle

#44. I glanced at Aphrodite, who sat next to Hera and could have easily graced the front cover of every magazine and newspaper in the world ever. Hell, Gardeners World would have put her on the cover to sell a few copies.

Steve McHugh

#45. The Hollywood executives are, like, 'We're not racist, we just have to pretend to be racists because we're capitalists. We want to sell our movies in China (and) they don't like Kevin Hart.

Bill Maher

#46. Eli Lilly had decided not to sell in Japan in the 80's because of a lack of demand, but with the introduction of the new diagnosis kokoro no kaze (which translates to "your soul has a cold"), mild depression became a "real" illness, treatable with medication.

Margee Kerr

#47. If you believe your product or service can fulfill a true need, it's your moral obligation to sell it.

Zig Ziglar

#48. The telly is invaded
by hallelujah channels
and informercials,
both trying to sell
everything needed
to save you.

Emma Cameron

#49. I came up almost completely through the subsidised theatre. I have never been absolutely at the market interface, where I've got to sell my wares or die - I've always been protected from that.

Harriet Walter

#50. I can't rely upon sex and violence to sell my books

Libi Astaire

#51. Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say.

Ken Burns

#52. People admire my confidence, but they never see me when I'm alone. That's when I'm the most raw because I'm not trying to sell myself to anybody.

J. Merridew

#53. Grow up. Get a life. Life is pain. Anybody who tells you something other than that is trying to sell you something.

Frederick Lenz

#54. As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have just about finished the third book in the series. Two more are already outlined. I'm in this for the long haul.

Richard Helms

#55. I can make it very clear: I get paid if we make good investments. And if we don't, I don't get paid. I have no incentive to sell our companies to Google; the entrepreneurs get to decide that. We are minority shareholders.

Bill Maris

#56. A few of us are extraverts. A few of us are introverts. But most of us are ambiverts, sitting near the middle, not the edges, happily attuned to those around us. In some sense, we are born to sell.

Daniel H. Pink

#57. I was really trying to sell to people who hate jazz: to make a case for the art form as youthful and energetic, not the sort of rarified intellectual activity it's painted as.

Damien Chazelle

#58. His high spiced wares were made to sell, and they sold; and his thousands of readers could as rationally charge their delight in filth upon him, as a glutton can shift upon his cook the responsibility of his beastly excess.

Charles Dickens

#59. If you want to sell a steak, you can't just have the sizzle, you gotta have sauce.

Don King

#60. Once you start trying to sell creativity, you're always going to run into the problem that the people selling it aren't as creative as the people making it, and the people making it don't know how to talk business with the people trying to sell it.

Dave Pirner

#61. One of these days I'm going to write a book on drops. That ought to sell. The shot's become more popular than putting.

Jimmy Demaret

#62. Don't be constantly selling and shilling. Figure out how you can help others, tell them stories, and share openly everything you know so that people will recognize you as someone that they can trust, who won't turn them off by constantly trying to sell them something.

C.C. Chapman

#63. I never liked the Oscars. They didn't do too much for me at all. I felt like a big, vulnerable hunk of baloney being used to sell some products.

Nick Nolte

#64. Right now, there are a limited number of customers for Canadian oil. Due to simple geography - and without the pipeline - it's really only cost effective for Canadian oil producers to sell their oil to North American customers, mostly American Midwesterners.

Ron Wyden

#65. What I like best about the telephone is that it keeps you in touch with people, particularly people who want to sell you magazine subscriptions in the middle of the night.

Dave Barry

#66. Even a freerider requires a horse to ride;sellswords must have swords to sell.

George R R Martin

#67. I know the way o' wives; they set one on to abuse their husbands, and then they turn round on one and praise 'em as if they wanted to sell 'em.

George Eliot

#68. The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?

Dan Barker

#69. Off to sell Jane Austen to the masses.

Laurel Ann Nattress

#70. I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear.

Margot Kidder

#71. I cannot help to see how life is a play of opposites. For all you get, you miss out on something, to go means not to come, to buy means to sell, to choose one, means to not choose another. You should enjoy your decision for the adventure that it is. It is all an adventure.

Evan Sutter

#72. Artists want to sell their work, sure. But they aren't out there asking questions about what people want and what they don't want, now are they?

Michael Scott

#73. The only way to ensure a film is going to sell is put Will Smith in it and you open it in 3,000 theaters and make sure we have all the top promotional spots in each venue.

Omar Epps

#74. I got on a high believing everything I would produce was going to sell at the rate I wanted.

Alan Sugar

#75. I think attempting to sell people an easy fix for pain is the worst kind of snake oil.

Brene Brown

#76. Jesus is not asking you to sell the gospel; Jesus is asking you to preach the gospel. Mark 16:15

Felix Wantang

#77. What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer. Not as somebody with a particular idea to sell, or something like that.

Alan Alda

#78. The last thing we would want is for our fans to feel that we're trying to find the 17th opportunity to sell them the same song.

Nick Mason

#79. During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs.

Betty White

#80. My bank must stop trying to sell me identity theft protection. You know why I expect you to protect my money? Because you're a bank.

Bill Maher

#81. If you do this, you're going to have some heartaches from it. You're going to have people yelling at you or maybe screaming at you or criticizing you, but I think it's the best way to sell a superior chicken.

Frank Perdue

#82. Any fool can make soap. It takes a clever man to sell it.

Thomas J. Barratt

#83. It's as important to sell yourselves as much as the service. The business model's going to change 50 times, and the market's going to change, but you need to convince that investor that you are smart enough and excited enough about the opportunity that you'll figure it out.

Dylan Smith

#84. It never ceases to amaze me that companies will spend thousands of hours and millions of dollars teaching people 'how to sell,' and not one minute or not $10 on 'why they buy.' And 'why they buy' is all that matters.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#85. Some things transcend politics and policy and the lust for power. Truth, honesty, integrity, decency and fairness are immutable values. They are the ethical substance of life. They ought to be cherished. To sell them out is to sell one's soul.

Michael Short

#86. It was unthinkable to sell land, was to sell communal privileges or commute labor services and bonds of serfdom for a money rent.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#87. What do you have to do to get people to take an interest? I'm not going to go out and cause a silly sex scandal just to sell a record!

John Lydon

#88. Publicity is in essence, nostalgic. It has to sell the past to the future... According to publicity, to be sophisticated is to live beyond conflict.

John Berger

#89. I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.

Jack Bowman

#90. one may be partially owned by another or others by having to sell one's labor or talents to somebody with the means to buy them. In

Iain M. Banks

#91. My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for the smallest amount of money my literary agent had ever negotiated for a work of fiction.

Daniel Handler

#92. The assets you want to buy are the ones people have to sell.

William E. Conway Jr.

#93. Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm.

Allen Carr

#94. Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.

Og Mandino

#95. It just seems like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it's so sad that there are so many musicians who don't want to change the world.

Moby

#96. All businesses need images to sell their products and services.

Jon Oringer

#97. I am glad to have found a readership, but one can't write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. A writer creates an imaginary world that he transmits to others.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

#98. To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind.

Arthur Koestler

#99. But, when I had this feeling and started painting sacred art, as I had this feeling to do, then it come to me: my problem is I'll get a lot of criticism and another problem is my work's not good enough to sell.

Howard Finster

#100. Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.

Ian McKellen