Quotes on Selling

Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we're selling this deadly stuff anyway?

i am going to start selling air in dark orange bags marked: moon-blooms

Because you’re such a good salesman, and if you go work for a company, they’re going to use you as a salesman. If you’re going to be a salesman, you might as well be selling something worthwhile, like education

‎"Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything -- including the Christian plan of salvation.

America is subsidizing what is left of the prestige and strength of the once mighty Britain. The sun has set forever on that monocled, pith-helmeted resident colonialist, sipping tea with his delicate lady in the non-white colonies being systematically robbed of every valuable resource. Britain's superfluous royalty and nobility now exist by charging tourists to inspect the once baronial castles, and by selling memoirs, perfumes, autographs, titles, and even themselves.

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.

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

The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.

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