I didn't understand that you could go to jail for the rest of your life for selling cocaine. I thought life sentences… — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
It's nice that all the composers have said that nobody interprets a lyric like Fred Astaire. But when it comes to selling… — Fred Astaire Copy Share Image
In a two-year period, all my dreams came true: the birth of a son... publishing a best-selling book... launching a successful organization...… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Nearly everything possible had been done to spoil the game: the heavy financial interest; the absurd transfer and player-selling system; the lack… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms… — David Denby Copy Share Image
The explosion in access to mobile phones and digital services means that people everywhere are contributing vast amounts of information to the… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
For us, selling a million records in 2005 is the equivalent of selling 2 to 3 million records (five years ago). Rock… — Jacoby Shaddix Copy Share Image
There are a lot of comics at the top end making staggering amounts of money and selling out stadiums. I think stand-up… — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the… — James Denton Copy Share Image
There are a lot of musicians who are still desperately trying to pretend that it's 1998 and by having a huge marketing… — Moby Copy Share Image
So popular is beer, the world's best-selling alcoholic drink, that it is often taken for granted. Yet scientific analysis shows that a… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
If anybody is so mad at Vladimir Putin, you know what they could do? They could advocate for a gas tax. He… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
As we crossed the Malakand Pass I saw a young girl selling oranges. She was scratching marks on a piece of paper… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Once you do lose a job, there are not a lot of social supports for you. You lose health insurance because we… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to both sales and non-sales selling. And the social science… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
It would be impossible for me to say when the idea of becoming an owner first came to me. Probably it was… — Jacob Ruppert Copy Share Image
The same with the mortgage brokers that were selling people mortgages they couldn't afford. We shouldn't pay them on each mortgage they… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Out in the Pool certain other boats caught the eye... each carried a bright fire amidships, in a brazier, beside a man,… — Arthur Morrison Copy Share Image
You'll better understand the evil when top audit firms started selling fraudulent tax shelters when I tell you that one told me… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Is there anybody listening? Is there anyone who sees what's going on? Read between the lines, criticize the words they're selling. Think… — Geoff Tate Copy Share Image
I worked selling tickets for Dodger Stadium; I delivered pizza; I did every job under the sun. It's the part that sucks… — Jeremy Luke Copy Share Image
I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't… — Rick James Copy Share Image
If you're creating something that has some sort of cultural currency - if the idea is getting out there - then that… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
Apple and Samsung are selling in such high volumes, and they're vertically integrated more and more, that it's very, very hard for… — John Sculley Copy Share Image
Selling Atari when I did - I think that's my biggest regret. And I probably should have gotten back heavily into the… — Nolan Bushnell Copy Share Image
Listen, we're still selling stardom. That doesn't go away because MTV decides they can't play videos or they want to program themselves… — L.A. Reid Copy Share Image
They even let me do the ads for the album. I definitely want it all to be presented right, but I don't… — Robin Pecknold Copy Share Image
We see that hyperactivity and reward areas are important when the bubble's rising. People getting caught up in it. We also see… — Colin Camerer Copy Share Image
That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are… — Marcy Kaptur Copy Share Image
Selling one's book to Hollywood is rather like selling someone your house. After it's sold, it isn't yours anymore. They can paint… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Too many companies think they want to do a video blog to sell merchandise, but if you turn your site into QVC,… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning...Who ever thought I'd be a children's author -- let alone a… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
With conglomerates selling companies to liquidators, who close down plants and move to non-union areas, it's about time progressive union leaders step… — Tom Colicchio Copy Share Image
When I think of the artists I admire and seek out musically. It's because I'm curious about where they're going to go… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
With a profession such as investing, people see the 'doing' as the buying and selling. It is difficult to come home from… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
I've never had one of those amazing yoga bodies. My body is what it is. I am sure if I went on… — Kelly Brook Copy Share Image
Some people will always think they know how to make other people's marriages better, and, after a while, they'll get to cudgeling… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image