Top 1200 Direct Selling Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible.

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.

Before I began concentrating on writing, in my free time I was an artist, making and selling etchings illustrating stories based on my readings in classical literature.

Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.

I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them.

One of my problems is that I'm very honest and direct. You pay a price for that.

ISIS simply do not have ideological, theological, or popular support. And this is a criminal organization that is funding their criminality with things like drug trade and selling oil.

Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.

My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

It is a great good to be given over to the will of God. Then the Lord alone is in the soul, and no other thought, and she prays to God with a pure mind. When the soul is entirely given over to the will of God, then the Lord Himself begins to guide her, and the soul learns directly from God ... A proud man does not with to live according to the will of God. He likes to direct himself, and does not understand that man does not have enough understanding to direct himself without God.

From the very beginning, I envisioned success as selling enough books so I could keep getting published and continue to write what I wanted to without compromising.

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

If you want to become a great marketer, the place to start is actually selling. one on one, face to face.

If you're the water boiler king of China, you're selling a billion water boilers.

[The Raindance film festival] is literally the first time we've ever screened the movie ["Selling Isobel"] to anyone, and people are a little bit traumatised by it.

Adele is selling millions of records, and everybody tries to sing like Adele.

Toughest job I ever had: selling doors, door to door.

Was I involved in selling drivers licenses to people illegally? Hell no I wasn't. Would I have tolerated it? Hell no.

I want to thank Gus Van Sant for selling out so that I could use his editor Curtis Clayton, who did a great job.

As an actor, you can't just be in the film. You're also in charge of selling it, and so you have to sell yourself, and you have to be very political and make sure to not say the wrong things. It's exhausting.

Resenting promotion is one of the greatest obstacles to success. People who have issues with selling and promotion are usually broke.

Advertising. I'd definitely like to try that. In fact, it was a genuine second choice career-wise. I'd be good at selling stuff - I've got the gift of the gab.

I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself.

I just figured out hustles to get by, like maybe selling my clothes. I wanted to travel around and be broke and live in sketchy apartments.

I would always direct my own stuff in Mexico.

It's very difficult to balance different audiences and talk to each one without selling the others short. There is no universal literature - or, if there is, I don't know how to write it.

Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth".

I think, as an artist, part of your job is being aware of what's going on around you and not selling out and not following the trend, which I'm totally against.

I admire Mark Zuckerberg... for not selling out, for wanting to make a company. I admire that a lot.

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.

You make more money selling advice than following it. It's one of the things we count on in the magazine business -- along with the short memory of our readers.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Government buffer-stock schemes are rife with politics, and instead of generating profits from buying low and selling high, they tend to generate losses.

When eyeliner was introduced in the Twenties by Max Factor, a pioneer of Hollywood film cosmetics who began selling to the public, even the word 'makeup' was a revelation.

I'm going to go do this crazy thing. I'm going to start this company selling books online.

When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part of that is by making opportunities and paying decent wages.

I have always been selling. I always had something going on. That was just my nature.

If you have a good selling idea, your secretary can write your ad for you.

The Central Bank is constantly purchasing, purchasing and selling and vice versa - this is their job.

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.

I started selling corn dogs, ended up in the music industry. That's how it all started.

In China, people are selling their kidney to buy an iPhone 6. What's going to happen when the iPhone 7 comes out?

I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.

I'm not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it.

Before I go on selling the joy of working with your spouse, I should make something clear: Although we have a great marriage, it is as trying as anyone's.

A lot of people like to fool you and say that you're not smart if you never went to college, but common sense rules over everything. That's what I learned from selling crack.

At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product.

You should consider an employment change before you consider selling out.

We have a system that's really founded on profit and on selling pharmaceuticals as opposed to keeping people healthy and then helping them get back to health.

Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.

We're in the business of selling pleasure. We don't sell handbags or haute couture. We sell dreams.

The history of pop is a progression of underground styles going mainstream, so there's nothing unusual about the White Stripes or Franz Ferdinand selling records.

Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.

All you ladies that are selling your souls, you need to put your hooker vibes on hold.

I wouldn't want to direct. I see how much work it is.

When I read about young designers selling 51 percent of their company to someone else, I cringe. I want to say, 'Don't do it - call me first.'

Companies should be selling ideas more than benefits. Sell ideas. Not stuff.

We can no longer afford to be entertained beyond the point of accountability. We can't keep selling each other out and be willing to do anything to be seen, to be famous or to be rich.

Buying's easier, selling's hard - [it's] hard to know when to get out.