"Describe your product in terms of what it does not in terms of what it is."
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"Combine the dual qualities of empathy and ambitionin every sales relationship."
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"It's very gratifying that someone likes what you're selling."
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"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."
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"Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople."
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"Was I involved in selling drivers licenses to people illegally? Hell no I wasn't. Would I have tolerated it? Hell no."
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"For years, broadcasters didn't get a nickel out of retransmission consent. But broadcast content is what the cable industry was selling to customers."
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"Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music."
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"They're selling postcards of the hanging."
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"Selling is essentially transference of feeling."
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"In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling."
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"Selling is never about convincing. It is always about helping."
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"I was a caddy. I also worked as a bouncer, selling Christmas trees at Frank's Nursery and before that, selling what they normally sell."
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"We are going to trace more effectively, how these guns are ending up on the streets, to unscrupulous gun dealers, who often times are selling to straw purchasers. And cracking down on the various loopholes that exist in terms of background checks for children, the mentally ill."
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"Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry."
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"True professional selling is simply sharing enthusiasm."
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"Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it."
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"[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz."
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"The thing I loved about her was that I never felt like she was selling anything. She would talk to God as if she knew Him, as if she had talked to Him on the phone that day. She was never ashamed which is the thing with some Christians I had encountered."
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"Albert Camus was never abandoned by his readers. Camus is enormously read. He's the highest selling author in the entire Gallimard collection, and has been for some years now. Sales haven't ever stopped, so to talk about rediscovering him would suggest that he isn't read anymore and that's not true."
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