Top 1200 Direct Selling Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I am not against remakes. They help in selling a film or creating a buzz around it. But it's my personal choice to stick to original music.

Approach each customer with the idea of helping him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service.

We were just hoping 'Prayin' for Daylight' wasn't a complete flop. Selling a million records wasn't even in our wildest thoughts.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

When you're young, working in a warehouse or selling hot dogs, you look at work - at acting - as something precious. It gets you out of the stink.

To have a director's direct feedback is invaluable.

I've noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I'm not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

I could grow my own patch, make some apple pies and start selling them at the local country fair.

However long the horror continued, one must not get to the stage of refusing to think about it. To shrink from direct pain was bad enough, but to shrink from vicarious pain was the ultimate cowardice. And whereas to conceal direct pain was a virtue, to conceal vicarious pain was a sin. Only by feeling it to the utmost, and by expressing it, could the rest of the world help to heal the injury which had caused it. Money, food, clothing, shelter - people could give all these and still it would not be enough; it would not absolve them from paying also, in full, the imponderable tribute of grief.

I think it's very valuable as an actor to throw yourself back into having that direct connection with an audience on-stage and work that muscle. It is a very different type of work and equally fascinating. I mean, I've very much in love with filmmaking because I really love the way you can tell stories with a camera and how music and everything contributes to the story in a very direct way. But I also think it's very valuable to come back to theatre, so if the right script came along I would love to come back to London and do some more.

There's such a huge link with fashion, with front covers of magazines and selling products, but that's not what you go into the job for, and yet you're persuaded that's what you have to do to create the opportunities for yourself.

I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players' equipment.

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

Let my critics direct a movie if they think it's so easy!

He that hath the steerage of my course, Direct my sail.

What am I selling? Joy, happiness, a way to turn the ugliest ills of life on their head so you can laugh at it and not take it too serious.

It is incumbent upon us all to raise the bar, whether you are a multibillion-dollar international corporation or a mom-and-pop selling blackberry jam.

I'm trying to build something that lasts forever. If it's tied to my legacy as an athlete, then when I'm gone, it will have no momentum or can't keep selling.

Reason should direct, and appetite obey.

Shorts wager on price declines by selling shares that they have borrowed in the hope of buying them back at far lower prices.

When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who's selling fear.

Be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.

If you start comparing my practice of law to what I could have been - selling bananas - you'll know why I gave money to the University of Texas.

A guru is needed not to worship, but to direct you.

I like to direct for the big screen.

I'd like to direct something at the Public.

I want to go out there and try as hard as I can to be the best in that ring. And for me, that doesn't mean cutting flips and cartwheels and not selling punches.

This is how people are going to listen to music now - streaming. So diversify as a band. It doesn't mean selling your songs to adverts.

I assumed when I was first selling the franchises that everyone would be as excited as I was to wake up in the morning to bake bread and slice vegetables.

Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

I'd rather have a strong career, playing and selling records to a loyal audience, then having one record that exploded. That would be devastating.

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.

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.

My dad used to sell a type of commodity contract. It was so complicated, he was certain his sales people didn't understand what they were selling.

For commercial customers, we have invested in specialist mobile-first sales capabilities, and we are building out our device-selling channel.

If there was a direct influence on a song, I never hid it.

Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.

I never really had any trouble selling my music to country audiences. They appreciate honest lyrics and straightforward melodies, and that's what I do.

All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

People come to this country from all over the world to pursue their dreams of driving a taxi or selling hot dogs or working in a sweatshop.

I'm a straightforward person. I like to be direct with people.

Cristiano is direct and forceful, and has this fascination with goals.

With empathy we don't direct, we follow. Don't just do something, be there.

And I certainly intend to direct someday.

I definitely want to direct and write - all of it.

Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.

Walmart markets its gun department as 'sports and outdoors,' but let us get one thing straight: They are not just selling hunting rifles.

Banks and investors don't usually view a high-ranking executive in the company selling off massive amounts of stock as a good thing.

I never thought I would direct a film.

When a stock is selling at a discount to liquidation value per share, a near rock-bottom appraisal, it is frequently an attractive investment.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles.

I'd much rather face the voters defending what's right and true than to have to explain selling my country and my soul to Donald Trump.

Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.

I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day.

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.

A song isn't a newspaper. It might feel direct, but it's not.

None of my heroes were big rock stars, and I thought, 'This isn't how it's meant to be.' It wasn't about making music so much as selling it.

If [domain seizure] isn't direct censorship, I don't know what is.