“I don’t rely on my figure to sell records.”
― Adele
“I’ve had to sell a lot of art, which I’ve hated to do because I really love the art I have.”
― Agnes Gund
“In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it.”
― Alan Parsons
“For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public.”
― Alex Berenson
“Corporate executives often buy or sell shares in their companies, and stocks rarely rise or fall significantly when those transactions are reported.”
― Alex Berenson
“I actually did use to sell shoes.”
― Alex Winter
“My biggest thing is that I never want to sell out. Or be a sellout.”
― Alexis Ren
“When you sell cars in the U.S., it forces you to be the most competitive.”
― Anand Mahindra
“I did not sell Amway, but I sold Shaklee, which was an Amway-type product sold through multi-level marketing.”
― Andy Kindler
“I do not have a merchandise line. I don’t sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation.”
― Anthony Bourdain
“When we sell paper in Asia, we sell them things such as their corrugator rolls as well as paper.”
― Anthony Pratt
“What we sell are not products… that customers are going to put in a closet and forget.”
― Antoine Arnault
“Many candidates use a political autobiography to sell their candidacy.”
― Ari Melber
“Anyone who’d sell out a whole town wouldn’t hesitate to double-cross one man.”
― Arnold Rothstein
“Salesmen always need something to sell.”
― Barry Ritholtz
“I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.”
― Beatrice Wood
“Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.”
― Benjamin Franklin
“It’s important for me to sell a product that works.”
― Billy Mays
“I can sell anything. I’m very convincing.”
― Biz Markie
“Pet stores just sell their animals.”
― Booboo Stewart
“It’s not a hard sell to be asked to do something in Ireland.”
― Bryce Dessner
“I would love to sell millions of records, but that’s never gonna be the case.”
― Buzz Osborne
“In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope.”
― Charles Revson
“I’ve absolutely fought against having to be half-naked to sell a track.”
― Christina Grimmie
“Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.”
― Christo
“We don’t sell technical drawings except when they are incorporated into a drawing or a collage.”
― Christo
“My goal was never to sell many records.”
― Chuck Mangione
“The summer of 1976 was so hot that bars of chocolate melted on the shelves before confectioners could sell them.”
― Clive Sinclair
“Some books are well-received with critics; other books sell.”
― Colson Whitehead
“Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn’t sell much of anything.”
― David Ogilvy
“If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.”
― David Ogilvy
“I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those.”
― David Spade
“Nowadays people sell millions of records that can’t sing.”
― Dee Snider
“Apart from me, Tyson Fury, and Deontay Wilder, you can’t sell out Wembley.”
― Dillian Whyte
“I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ’em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.”
― Dolly Parton
“You’ve got to be able to sell yourself.”
― Don Rickles
“I couldn’t sell air conditioners on a 98-degree day. When I demonstrated them in a showroom, I pushed the wrong button and blew the circuit.”
― Don Rickles
“I like bands that don’t necessarily sell the most records.”
― Donal Logue
“Don’t sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.”
― Dorothy Salisbury Davis
“To buy happiness is to sell soul.”
― Douglas Horton
“I wear clothes and sell products and ideas.”
― Edie Campbell
“A real collector does not sell.”
― Eli Broad
“If nobody can sell mortgage-backed securities based on trillions of dollars of unpayable instruments, there’s a lot less risk in the overall system.”
― Elizabeth Warren
“I actually don’t think that I’m gonna sell a lot of records.”
― Elliott Smith
“My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.”
― Eric Fischl
“Awards and nominations really help sell films.”
― Essie Davis
“If you don’t sell, it’s not the product that’s wrong, it’s you.”
― Estee Lauder
“It’s hard to sell merchandise off YouTube.”
― Freddie Wong
“I’ve had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn’t sell. Or not praised but then it sells.”
― Gail Sheehy
“The term ‘sell out’ is juvenile and naive.”
― Gavin McInnes
“Of course, I want to sell this record – there’s no point making it otherwise.”
― George Michael
“I’m a label that wants to sell. I believe in clothes.”
― Giambattista Valli
“I’d like to retire at 50 but I don’t want to sell papers in the middle of London on a Zimmer.”
― Graham Norton
“Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs.”
― Gregory Harrison
“I deal in volume. To sell volume, it must be affordable. So that’s my whole life, is to make it affordable.”
― Harry Triguboff
“I just have friends that don’t sell their pictures to newspapers.”
― Heather Mills
“If it sells, it sells. If it doesn’t sell, I’ll go make a movie.”
― Ice T
“When your IQ rises to 28, sell.”
― Irwin Corey
“I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.”
― Jack Bowman
“I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.”
― Jack Vance
“I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets.”
― James Stewart
“The killer whale Tilikum has helped SeaWorld sell millions of dollars worth of tickets.”
― Jane Velez-Mitchell
“If it has to sell its mascot, your team sucks.”
― Jay Mohr
“Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.”
― Jean de La Fontaine
“We have a wide range of looks that address all the different types of women we cater to in all of the different territories we sell to.”
― Jenny Packham
“I told you to sell it, not give it away.”
― Jerome Robbins
“The vocals are what immediately draw people in and sell the song.”
― Jerry Harrison
“I sell escapism.”
― Jimmy Buffett
“I think that, by comparison with $2,000 bottles of grand cru Burgundies, first-rate barolos, which sell for under $100, are undervalued ten-fold.”
― Joe Bastianich
“I’m not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart… they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books.”
― John Grisham
“My father would make record after record, and he’d be so surprised at what would sell and what wouldn’t.”
― John Ritter
“One Earth, one mother – one does not sell the Earth.”
― John Trudell
“We didn’t sell a lot of records, but somehow we left an impression.”
― Johnny Ramone
“I need to reach a lot of people to sell records.”
― Jon Crosby
“All businesses need images to sell their products and services.”
― Jon Oringer
“Anyone can contribute images, and we sell them to designers and agencies all over the world.”
― Jon Oringer
“Minority views expressed in films simply don’t sell tickets.”
― Karel Reisz
“Did you really think I would sell you out?”
― Karl Malone
“I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn’t sell.”
― Kathryn Bigelow
“I want to sell out arenas and sell millions of records.”
― Katy Perry
“I’m not going sell out on the people of state of Florida.”
― Kendrick Meek
“I do sell fun.”
― Kenny Chesney
“Unless I’ve got Katy Perry on the cover of my CD, it’s going to be tough to sell a lot of records.”
― Kenny G
“Great products sell themselves.”
― Kevin Systrom
“Galleries, and they’re all the same, and rightly so, they sell work.”
― Kim Weston
“The ones that sell the most aren’t the ones that are remembered.”
― KRS-One
“If I was going to sell out, I would do it for more than 10,000 records.”
― Kurt Elling
“I didn’t write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.”
― Larry Hagman
“I guess I invented extended warranties, because that’s all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days.”
― Lee Iacocca
“Please don’t throw phones. They hurt. And we sell them on eBay.”
― Liam Payne
“I sell these intermediate bond portfolios for people that can’t go to stocks.”
― Louis Navellier
“The thing to do is to buy and sell.”
― Lucio Tan
“Never sell, never franchise.”
― Lynsi Torres
“I sell out shows. My performance is top-tier.”
― Machine Gun Kelly
“I’m not much of a salesman. I prefer the soft sell and the honest approach.”
― Marc Guggenheim
“I really had no program or any established plan. I didn’t even ask myself if I should sell my paintings or not.”
― Marcel Duchamp
“We don’t sell data; we don’t allow anyone to sell data.”
― Mark Zuckerberg
“Glamour is what I sell, it’s my stock in trade.”
― Marlene Dietrich
“People assume I sell a lot more records than I actually do. I really don’t sell any.”
― Marnie Stern
“Hundreds of data-mining companies sell landlords tenant-screening reports that list past evictions and court filings.”
― Matthew Desmond
“I sell a lot of ebooks from my website and encourage authors to set up their own stores.”
― Michael A. Stackpole
“You’ve got to sell fights; you’ve got to be entertaining.”
― Michael Bisping
“Don’t sell your publishing.”
― Michelle Phillips
“If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.”
― Mickey Gilley
“I had a few stocks, but stocks took a dive. I never sell my stocks.”
― Mickey Gilley
“If you tried to sell Mike Birbiglia as a concept, no one would buy it.”
― Mike Birbiglia
“I know how to sell books.”
― Mike Cernovich
“There’s never been a better time to sell properties.”
― Mike Simpson
“I’m not an entertainer; I’m an engager. I never sell myself, in a sense.”
― Morten Harket
“No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.”
― Nas
“I have, oddly, two ski houses – trying to sell one.”
― Nick Hanauer
“The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.”
― Ninon de L’Enclos
“Our goal definitely isn’t to sell Stripe.”
― Patrick Collison
“I don’t really sell many records.”
― Patti Scialfa
“If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.”
― Pauline Phillips
“We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever.”
― Phil Donahue
“I’d rather sell 10,000 records that represent me than 2 million that don’t represent me at all.”
― Phillip Phillips
“You can’t sell thermal power without the competitive bidding.”
― Piyush Goyal
“A bookstore has thousands of titles to sell. You need to be the guy the store attendant recommends to the reader.”
― Ravi Subramanian
“Let’s make what Americans buy. Buy what Americans make. And sell it to the world.”
― Rick Perry
“Rock bands were never newsworthy. In the ’60s and ’70s, rock bands weren’t in the newspapers because they weren’t considered mainstream; they wouldn’t sell papers.”
― Roger Taylor
“I want to sell music. That’s all I’m interested in selling.”
― Romeo Santos
“Critics don’t sell records, unfortunately. No one reads what they write anyway.”
― Ry Cooder
“If you’re shameless enough, you can sell anything.”
― Ryan Holiday
“I will never sell Flipkart.”
― Sachin Bansal
“James Salter has talents on the page we novelists would sell souls to the devil for.”
― Sarah Hall
“I spent four of my five years at Stanford writing a novel I was unable to sell.”
― Scott Turow
“Things that price at $4.99 sell very differently than things that price at $5.”
― Sendhil Mullainathan
“I’m relentless. My mother says I could sell ice to the Eskimos.”
― Sharon Stone
“Anyone can sell product by dropping their prices, but it does not breed loyalty.”
― Simon Sinek
“I wouldn’t sell those New York actors short.”
― Sissy Spacek
“A lot of us have energy that we can tap into. We sell ourselves short.”
― Ski Mask the Slump God
“There’s a blockbuster side to Knopf, whether it’s P. D. James or John le Carre or our best-selling books. We try to sell our writers as aggressively as those houses regarded as commercial with a capital C.”
― Sonny Mehta
“It’s a lot of work to sell one thing on the Internet.”
― Sophia Amoruso
“I’ve never worked in a retail store, but I did sell shoes at Gimme Shoes in San Francisco, a job I was fired from.”
― Sophia Amoruso
“What we learned was that the collective glamour of a specialty store could sell a lot of merchandise.”
― Stanley Marcus
“Not on my watch will we sell or transfer our public lands.”
― Steve Bullock
“Our stadium seats over 80,000, and we sell all of our tickets.”
― Steve Spurrier
“Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.”
― Steve Wozniak
“Ten million 16-year-old girls would sell their right arm to live the life that I’ve had.”
― Su-chin Pak
“Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.”
― Thomas A. Edison
“Who wants to lose or sell a player? Nobody does.”
― Thomas Tuchel
“I don’t really care about, Oh I really have to sell these things.”
― Thurston Moore
“My aspirations aren’t to sell millions of records, but to write really good songs.”
― Tom Odell
“Sooner or later, we sell out for money.”
― Tony Randall
“Awards sell tickets, and they’re a clever publicity stunt.”
― Tony Randall
“Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don’t sell one ticket.”
― Uwe Boll
“We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.”
― Vicente del Bosque
“What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock ‘n roll records to trendy customers.”
― Vivienne Westwood
“We’re gonna totally sell out and try to dominate the world.”
― Wes Borland
“If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. ‘Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that’s mass production.”
― Will Rogers
“Celery leaves are an underused ingredient, most likely because supermarkets sell mostly leafless stalks.”
― Yotam Ottolenghi
“My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.”
― Zig Ziglar
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