Selling Quotes

“The deal is in the details.”

— Michelle Moore

Evangelism is selling a dream.

— Guy Kawasaki

“Money is only a means.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Vanity prevents improvement

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

honesty dies in selling itself.

— George Sand

Writers are always selling somebody out.

— Joan Didion

Stubbornness destroys good advice.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

I'm extremely bad at selling myself.

— Mukul Dev

This is a business, the direct selling, that bizarrely works best when times are bad.

— Jim Cramer

They either don't get it or don't want to. Maybe I'm just not selling it well.

— Melina Marchetta

“We’re all somebody’s prospect; we’re all somebody’s customer.”

— Chris Murray

I have always been selling. I always had something going on. That was just my nature.

— Mark Cuban

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

— Seth Klarman

J.Lo cannot sing, but she's still selling out Vegas.

— Louis Walsh

Selling is helping people to do what they're already inclined to do.

— Daniel H. Pink

“We all need salespeople who deliver value that wasn’t there before they arrived.”

— Chris Murray

I can assure you that buying leases for x and selling them for 5x or 10x is a lot more profitable than…

— Aubrey McClendon

“Explain the value and justify the cost - People don’t mind paying; they just don’t like to overpay.”

— Chris Murray

Marijuana does not cause brain damage. Our media does by creating fears, encouraging hate and then selling the remedy to the fears…

— Steven Machat

We're not trying to be a mega-pop-band, but we also wouldn't be opposed to selling millions of records, either.

— Mark Foster

Best selling authors are always worth listening to, even if you choose to ignore their advice.

— Michael Dirda

“Life is all about selling. Being able to exchange knowledge and move people to co-operate.”

— Colin Myles

I figured if I was eccentric looking in Indiana, people would think, 'What is he selling? Let's look in his case.'

— Ty Warner

Brands are selling our self-esteem back to us, through association. We need to own our brands.

— Kanye West

If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church,…

— Voltaire

I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it…

— Lewis Carroll

I worked in a boutique after work, my second job, selling women's clothes. And that was a way of not just making…

— Elie Tahari

I don't know about you, but when they first introduced bottled water, I thought it was so funny, I was like "Bottled…

— Jim Gaffigan

I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers, and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer…

— Barry Eisler

Their [the evangelicals'] success also points to a hunger for the product they are selling, a hunger that goes beyond any particular…

— Barack Obama

My high-tech aversion caused me to make fun of the typical biotech enterprise: $100 million in cash from selling shares, one hundred…

— Peter Lynch

While Wall Street firms typically underwrite offerings in teams, the lead underwriter, or manager, of the offering has primary responsibility for selling…

— Alex Berenson

In the beginning I was really, really lean. For the longest time I did it all. I played every hat. I was…

— Lori Greiner

What makes You Can't Take It With You so popular and a perennial favorite with student and amateur productions (it continues to…

— Chris Hart

I learned that Canadians are furious because Canada is exporting water to the United States. Their lakes are shrinking because they're selling…

— Ian Somerhalder

“Oh yes. It's open all right, but not many people come in here to look at me now so there's no point…

— Isobelle Carmody

...the mass media. What are they? They're huge corporations, massive corporations, linked up with even bigger corporations. They sell audiences to other…

— Noam Chomsky

You send me all these roses. Every time I think the last bouquet has arrived, finally, another turns up. I’m running out…

— Erin Morgenstern

All the real money in investment will have to be made as most of it has been in the past not out…

— Benjamin Graham

Consider Christmas - could Satan in his most malignant mood have devised a worse combination of graft plus bunkum than the system…

— Upton Sinclair