We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.
If you could taste words, most corporate websites, brochures, and sales materials would remind you of stale, soggy rice cakes: nearly calorie free, devoid of nutrition, and completely unsatisfying.
No company in the world would be satisfied with less sales, less customers or less jobs just because it's supposed to be good for the environment.
However, if I can expand this to Top Cow or Avatar I'm helping the sales, however small, on my Marvel books because I'm almost certain to pick up some new readers.
My grandfather was a very successful businessman. He started off as an engineer, but moved to sales to management to executive over a long career. For a while, before I was born, he was the CEO of an oil and gas exploration company.
I don't care that much about stolen bases. So when I steal and a guy fouls a pitch off, for me it's not that frustrating.
When I was at Marvel, they were in bankruptcy, which is hard to believe now with 'Avengers 2' out, but it was during the 1990s. It was a troubled place. Comic book sales were dropping. Work was scattered.
The last bastion of competitiveness is local advertising sales. There's little being spent by local advertisers on the Internet. That's where local media have leverage.
I like to work on the pitch, and only in this way can you beat important teams. If you don't believe in yourself and your job, it's difficult.
You've got to do the job on the pitch. First and foremost, I put in 100 percent, and I don't think anyone can really complain after that.
I like to smile. I try to bring happiness on and off the pitch. I don't understand how you can play football without joy.
You have to remember that professional football is a job, too, and some people have to get results on the pitch to pay to live.
In fact, I love singing. I just have a small problem with pitch, tune, melody, and lyrics. But that's never stopped me.
Because of 'World War Z' and 'The Walking Dead,' I can't pitch a modest little zombie film which is meant to be sociopolitical.
The Besiktas fans are very passionate. When you go out onto the pitch the noise coming from the stands always hits you.
I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism.
I just try to go to the pitch and finish the game not being able to complain to myself knowing I have given everything.
Fenway Park is a fun place to pitch in. You've got 38,000 fans all cheering against you. It's an intense atmosphere.
Most institutional investors feel compelled to swing at almost every pitch and forgo batting selectivity for frequency.
My first day as a manager was at Digital Equipment in Atlanta. I was a sales rep. I was promoted from among my peers, so one day I was a peer, and the next day I was their boss.
Every time I work on something, fun comes first. Whatever it is I think if you have fun doing it, the other things will follow. Albums sales or ranking on charts aren't important.
It's helped to develop me on the pitch, knowing all the positions, but also it's a good asset to have, that versatility. I'm able to move if I'm needed.
Thoughts create only according to their pitch, intensity, emotional quality, depth of feeling, or vibrational plane.
Overall strength work - if you can do it regularly - makes a massive difference on the pitch, especially when you are fatigued. If you are stronger, it helps you deal with that.
As long as the ball is thrown by a human being, I have the confidence to hit any pitch, no matter how fast it comes.
Even if I start on the bench, if I come on, I go. Because I know I should be on the pitch, and I want to show why.
There are different rules for comic books now. You've got prima donna's that are dealing with the direct sales market, so if they say it's going to be late, then that's what you tell the dealers and it's late.
Sales conducted on-chain through smart contracts couldn't really be done before Ethereum, which is why they are a newer concept. I think this style will become the most common over time.
The smartest thing legislatures can do is get rid of lotteries and get those dollars buying consumer goods and get the sales tax revenues from that
Not only am I knowledgeable and have a good friend base who can pitch in when I need them, and daughters, but I can afford to pay the people.
When I was 23, I was quite possibly the worst real estate agent in New York. I was working for my mother's agency in Chappaqua, and no one was buying houses. In eight months, I made zero sales. I rented one apartment.
The 'Main Street' retailers ... see customers come to the store to locate items ... only to leave and order the items over the Internet just to escape the sales tax.
Borussia are my old love, and that will remain so, but I identify with Barca 100 percent, and on the pitch, there is only one club for me.
To align with our new strategy to enhance the Windows device ecosystem, we are integrating Microsoft Mobile Device Sales (MMDS) underneath the Consumer Channels Group (CCG).
CDs are clearly dying out, and it's going to be moving to an all-digital format. Along with it, you raise this interactivity with the music. I feel that it's not stealing sales from anyone; it's turning people on to the music.
You are not going to see me puffing around the pitch. There is a saying in Bulgaria that great quality doesn’t require much effort.
Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
I am lucky to get the opportunity to play for France and that alone is a huge motivation for me, whenever I go on the pitch.
If you have John Terry, Frank Lampard on the pitch, they've seen everything in football. And it gives you a good feeling because they know what to do.
I love catching, being involved in every pitch of the game; obviously, it beats you up both mentally and physically.
I've always wanted to throw a first pitch out, and nothing like doing it near your hometown where you live.
You have to go out onto the pitch feeling good about yourself. That can give you that extra 30 per cent.
My brother never got an opportunity to throw a pitch, and I didn't want the same thing to happen to another young kid.
I just want to keep improving myself as a player and a person and hopefully continue to enjoy being on the pitch.
I am not a trained singer, but I used to sing for my father's theatre troupe and that's where I learnt the ropes of pitch and rhythm.
They're a very offensive team and even without Thierry Henry they can still do damage to you all over the pitch.
(on Arsenal)
I've done a lot of work with recruitment, which involved me giving sales pitches and things like that and spending a lot of time on the phone selling my services to people.
The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games
I've never blown my own trumpet over my ability but it took an awful lot to stop me getting on the pitch.
I've been entrepreneurial since middle school. I was always arranging bake sales, dances and school trips to raise money for the Dalton School.
Every time I step on the pitch, I think about winning and putting on a performance that ensures my team comes out on top.
I kind of realized I couldn't blow the ball by everybody. In high school I could do that, but now it's not going to work. I need to pitch.'
In any competitive environment, whether you're in sales or marketing or whatever it is, you have to know your competition, understand who they are, do intelligent analysis on them and then you have to know yourself - who you are and what you're capable of doing.
It's absolutely absurd to even consider voting on Sunday alcohol sales. I am opposed to alcohol period. It doesn't do anybody any good in the long run. It's a dangerous drug.
It would be great to just be able to ignore everything and pitch to a spot, to suppress the intellect and let the intuition take over.
I really like Dontrelle Willis' pitch; he's animated on the mound and is fun to watch - he gets into the game emotionally.
Sell-sell-sell sales methods simply do not work on social media.
I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
The very quick and high sales of the book caught us off guard, but fortunately we got the second edition from the printers at the end of last week and the shops should now be stocked again.
Ideals are like tuning forks: sound them often to bring your life up to standard pitch.
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