I don't want to be on the other side of the table from the…

I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it.

— Robert Sheckley

When I'm in the studio, I'm strictly thinking about the beats, the rhymes and the song. The decision I make once the songs are…

— Talib Kweli

Customers should complain more. You know, food's expensive nowadays. And these sommeliers come along with their thousand-page wine list and practically throw it in…

— Gordon Ramsay

I don't believe in either selling or marketing myself.

— Rekha

It's quite clear that stocks are cheaper than bonds. I can't imagine anybody having bonds in their portfolio when they can own equities, a…

— Warren Buffett

“When your pipeline is full – with business coming out of your ears – the notion of people asking for a discount will sound…

— Chris Murray

Retail is selling things that don't come back to customers who do.

— Tony Farmer

The company that employed me strived only to serve up the cheapest fare that the customer would tolerate, churn it out as fast as…

— Thomas Ligotti

Distribution may not matter in fictional worlds, but it matters in most. The Field of Dreams conceit is especially popular in Silicon Valley, where…

— Peter Thiel

“We all need salespeople with humility, honesty, integrity, empathy and an old-fashioned work ethic that ensures the job gets done.”

— Chris Murray

Approach each customer with the idea of helping him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or…

— Brian Tracy

I think it's really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers wanted. I'd say, even at this late date, they…

— Gabe Newell

By selling directly to customers, real women, the brand is able to avoid significant retail mark-ups that typically exist in high end fashion.

— Sarah Lafleur

An industry begins with the customer and his or her needs, not with a patent, a raw material, or a selling skill

— Theodore Levitt

“The salesperson you’d ideally like to be and the salesperson you’d like to encounter as a customer should roughly be the same, shouldn’t they?”

— Chris Murray