Selling Quotes

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

Oscar Wilde



Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Benjamin Franklin



Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.
Steve Jobs


Everyone lives by selling something.
Robert Louis Stevenson


Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
Og Mandino


Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
Katharine Hepburn


Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa


I didn't want to be selling insurance at 40, wondering what would it have been like to do stand-up.
Steven Wright


When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
P. J. O'Rourke


Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.
Bill Gates


Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again.
Johnny Depp


I started selling out comedy clubs before I got to town with no advertising. I was selling out theaters just on the rumor that I was going to be there.
Ron White


And now, of course this is another thing I didn't count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.
Arnold Schwarzenegger


If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
P. J. O'Rourke


The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
Abraham Maslow


After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
Calvin Coolidge


I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out.
Chuck Palahniuk


Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.
Alice Walker


I buy when other people are selling.
J. Paul Getty


If my mother knew I did this for a living, she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope.
Henny Youngman


Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
William Goldman


I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge.
George W. Bush


Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
Robert Orben


A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.
Leo Burnett


After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.
George Harrison


Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.
Chuck Jones


Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.
Bono


Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
Sinclair Lewis


The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the opposite. When everyone else is buying, we assume they know something we don't, so we buy. Then people start selling, panic sets in, and we sell too.
Jonathan Sacks


We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China... and it becomes this shell game.
Michael Moore