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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."
"Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again."
"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."
"Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is."
"Telling is not selling. Only asking questions is selling."
"I am principled against selling negroes, as you would do cattle at a market."
"I'm just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy"
"Canvases between 8 centimetres and 1 metre are priced around 25,000 francs. In the past I used to sell them from between 50 to 100 francs at the most. I have to say... that I feel somewhat embarrassed at this admission."
""Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything -- including the Christian plan of salvation."
"It's astonishing how many business owners are terrified of selling. Salespeople who see the most people a day are the highest paid regardless of the economy."
"The worst financial transaction you will ever make is selling yourself short."
"Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it."
"Never criticize, condemn or complain in a conversation with a customer or prospect."
"The main selling appeal of NAFTA to US corporations is that it gives them an advantage in the North American market over their European and Japanese competitors."
"Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them."
"Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry."
"I'm going to go do this crazy thing. I'm going to start this company selling books online."
"Selling is a person-to-person business. You cannot send the sales manual out to make the sale. Sales manuals have no legs and no voice."
"The idea of selling a Cezanne to buy a Morisot seems explosively contentious."
"Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question."
