William Goldman
Screenwriter, Novelist
"Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something."
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Selling
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Dale Carnegie
Author, Speaker
"If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work."
Katharine Hepburn
Actress
"Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself."
Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous."
Che Guevara
Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
"Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity."
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"The big money is not in the buying and selling ... but in the waiting."
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"I don't understand why prostitution is illegal, Selling is legal, f***ing is legal. So why isn't it legal to sell f***ing? Why should it be illegal to sell something that's legal to give away?"
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"Keep your sales pipeline full by prospecting continuosly.Always have more people to see than you have time to see them ."
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"It's a gold rush ad we're selling the shovels."
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"If you buy the things you don't need, you will soon be selling the things that you need."
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"The customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him."
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"If you buy something because it's undervalued, then you have to think about selling it when it approaches your calculation of its intrinsic value. That's hard. But if you buy a few great companies, then you can sit on your ass. That's a good thing."
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"Writers are always selling somebody out."
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"Be the Mick Jagger of the mailroom, the Warren Buffet of bookkeeping and the Bono of stapler selling."
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"I made my money by selling too soon."
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"We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property."
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"Education is the process of selling someone on books."
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"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."
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"I admire Mark Zuckerberg... for not selling out, for wanting to make a company. I admire that a lot."
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"I didn't want to be selling insurance at 40, wondering what would it have been like to do stand-up."
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"Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others."
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"Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again."
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"Traditionally the investor has been the man with patience and the courage of his convictions who would buy when the harried or disheartened speculator was selling."
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"Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is."
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"Telling is not selling. Only asking questions is selling."
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