I'm not handled. I'm not crafted by slick, high-priced consultants. I'm a real person, a genuine person, a struggling person in Connecticut.
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.
Orchestras seem content to be museums now, even as they wring their hands about dropping subscription sales and graying listeners.
I don't pay that much attention to sales figures or awards. To me, the big question is: 'Did you influence the next generation?' That's my goal.
My music should fall under fair use because it's transformative, it's becoming its own entity, and it's not negatively impacting anyone's sales.
You have to empower your sales staff to use their judgment and go beyond the standards set down on paper and by the computer.
One person can stop a great injustice. One person can be a voice for truth. One person’s kindness can save a life.
eBay started with a core focus on the collector. At the time of its S-1, six or seven percent of its total sales were Beanie Babies.
You don't even know if the person you're communicating with online is actually that person. And your persona on your social media - your Facebook or Twitter - may not be the person you are in real life. So then, who is the real person? Is it somewhere in between?
The person who is truly best suited to us is not the person who shares our tastes, but the person who can negotiate differences in taste intelligently and wisely.
There's not a sense that the person who is waiting on the table is somehow a lesser person that the person who is eating in the restaurant.
What I see is trying to make sure that everybody thinks you have more than what you actually have. What’s the point if you actually don’t have it? If you don’t have it, then you don’t have it. Have what you have. Enjoy that . . . The craft is everything. Don’t be afraid of not being the wealthiest person in the room. Be the smartest person in the room. Be the slickest person in the room. Be the most creative person in the room. Be the most entertaining person in the room. Just be in the room.
The fact that a person loves one particular person is what is important; the life lesson, whether you are homosexual or heterosexual, is that you not be promiscuous, and true to one person.
The ultimate compliment a customer can make to an organization about one of its marketing people is: "I'm not sure whether your sales rep works for me or for you."
Strapped by tight credit and plummeting sales, businesses have overhauled the way they manage supply chains, inventory, production practices and staffing.
Tell me a musician who's got rich off digital sales. Apple's doing pretty good though, right?
A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray."
Exceptional firms have always been good at aligning their mission or purpose with their execution and, as a result, have enjoyed category leadership in sales and profits.
I got the name Slash because I used to work in a grocery store and I was in charge of reducing prices for really big sales.
My point is, if we respect the winner and approach that person, have access to that person and that person will look at what we are presenting, that is not too bad.
As a kid back home in Texas, I was followed by sales associates in stores and called derogatory names more times than I can count.
I also found it funny to think about blackness as the second person. That was just sort of funny. Not the first person, but the second person, the other person.
I live in Portland now. It's beautiful from day one. The Food and the beer, and no sales tax. Get your iPad while you're here.
Jeremy tried to be an interesting person. The trouble was that he was the kind of person who, having decided to be an interesting person, would first of all try to find a book called How to Be An Interesting Person and then see whether there were any courses available.
I've had two IPOs: with Etsy in 2015 and Cloudera in 2016. There have also been a ton of trade sales in my portfolio.
To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.
For commercial customers, we have invested in specialist mobile-first sales capabilities, and we are building out our device-selling channel.
I don't quite know how the urban music category came about, but I suspect it had something to do with trying to maximise sales.
We have to improve our ability to deliver tangible results, namely sales, not simply awareness or change of attitude among opinion formers.
I think what IBM is excellent at is using their sales and marketing infrastructure to convince people who have asymmetrically less knowledge to pay for something.
Did you ever wake up with an erection...and find yourself in a massage chair at Brookstone? And you yell to the sales clerk "I'll take it!"
Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave of success. It sharpens a person's wits, if that person will let it, enabling him or her to see more clearly and evaluate situations with a more knowledgeable judgment.
For small business men and women, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.
I knew nothing about sales, marketing or how to run a company. Nor did I have a desire to do any of those things.
Beijing is on the move in Africa - using aid, diplomacy, weapons sales and Chinese ex pats in a bid to become the preeminent power in the region.
A person deprived of beauty and pleasure puts me in mind of the Haitian notion of a zombie - a person disconnected from his or her soul, a person who works for others' profit but never his own, a person who mindlessly does the bidding of the boss and exists in an emotional and mental limbo.
As soon as you put an actor to a person who is real, that person comes to life through another person.
Employers who violate rules of fairness are punished by reduced productivity, and merchants who follow unfair pricing policies can expect to lose sales.
If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.
In 2006, I left my job in sales and marketing to go full-time as a comedian, and I started off doing panto at the Lowry in Manchester.
My genre-hopping has caused problems with marketing and sales departments over the years, because they need to know where to position a book with the booksellers.
Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.
No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.
We women make the lion's share of household purchases in this country. We ourselves drive billions of dollars a year in sales.
I am saddened when I hear these words -this is not the person I knew - because those words objectify the person suffering from Alzheimer's. When you objectify a person you also dehumanize them. Once dehumanized the person becomes a villain.
As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.
Can't you treat yourself with a bit more consideration?' 'Why should I?' Mordion said, hugging the duvet round himself. 'Because you're a person, of course!' Ann snapped at him. 'One person ought to treat another person properly even if the person's himself!
With a private company, you've got to get into who's investing and what's the balance sheet like. So going public is a positive thing from the perspective of the sales organization.
Once an ebook hits the Kindle Top 100, sales tend to snowball as new customers discover it in greater numbers.
With all due respect to Speaker Hastert, trying to eliminate the IRS by adopting a national retail sales tax is a very dumb idea.
My dad always taught me that you have to be good to the next person all the time because one person is going to help another person.
I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
If I could inexpensively pick up a killer sales force without a lot of the other things that I don't necessarily need, yeah, I'd be all there.
I'm in control of my musical career, which means more than awards and record sales. And that freedom is exactly what my dad fought for, too.
We initially targeted pager networks, which have been suffering for the last decade due to cell phone sales.
If I'm trading bars with somebody, it certainly is not because I have a release coming. Joe Budden prides himself on the music and not the sales aspect.
Buying reviews of ebooks that include downloads is a well-known way to 'juice' an ebook's sales rank and attract new readers.
It's surprising how a minor slump in sales can have a huge impact, and can actually cut so significantly into margin that the company really feels it.
Strapped by tight credit and plummeting sales, businesses have overhauled the way they manage supply chains, inventory, production practices, and staffing.
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