Top 171 Seller Quotes & Sayings

As a producer or even as a basic seller, you need to be confident about your product.

I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller.

I'm not a seller. I'm a holder.

Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent

Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list.

If you don't make the best-seller list, if you don't get shortlisted for any prizes, it's goodbye.

No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters, the well-worn situations, the commonplace story that excites your derision, seem neither hackneyed, well worn nor commonplace to him. ... The conclusion is obvious: you cannot write anything that will convince unless you are yourself convinced. The best seller sells because he writes with his heart's blood.

Venom first made his appearance some years ago in a Spider-Man book, and was a huge best-seller.

I ain't no author, man . . . my writing skills are not of "New York Times" best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.

'Outside' came in '60. 'The Edge' in '61. All three made Gold, but the biggest seller was 'Inside.'

A good friend and a bad friend are like a perfume-seller and a blacksmith: The perfume-seller might give you some perfume as a gift, or you might buy some from him, or at least you might smell its fragrance. As for the blacksmith, he might singe your clothes, and at the very least you will breathe in the fumes of the furnace.

An IPO is like a negotiated transaction - the seller chooses when to come public - and it's unlikely to be a time that's favourable to you.

I can remember my jersey being the No. 1 seller for like two years, and I think it was the color of the jersey.

We could be the biggest pantyhose seller in America, but we don't want to weaken the link in shoppers' minds between Home Depot and do-it-yourself projects.

Salesmanship consists of transferring a conviction by a seller to a buyer.

You wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange wife and a fosset-seller.

If you want to buy something; it’s obviously in your best interest to convince the seller that what he’s got isn’t worth very much.

The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook.

I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived.

I don't subscribe to the thesis, 'Let the buyer beware,' I prefer the disregarded one that goes, 'Let the seller be honest.'

A 'For Sale' sign in your yard during the holidays is like a 'kick me' sign. You are telling buyers you are a distressed seller.

The great danger to the consumer is the monopoly -whether private or governmental. His most effective protection is free competition at home and free trade throughout the world. The consumer is protected from being exploited by one seller by the existence of another seller from whom he can buy and who is eager to sell to him. Alternative sources of supply protect the consumer far more effectively than all the Ralph Naders of the world.

Every dollar spent to punish a drug user or seller is a dollar that cannot be spent collecting restitution from a robber. Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child. Every trial held to prosecute a drug user or seller is court time that could be used to prosecute a rapist in a case that might otherwise have been plea bargained.

Money can be issued only in the act of buying, and can be backed only in the act of selling. Any buyer who is also a seller is qualified to be a money issuer. Government, because it is not and should not be a seller, is not qualified to be a money issuer.

There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art.

Frank Sinatra Jr. has never been particularly popular as a record seller.

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.

I'm indeed a mandasi seller, and I'm proud of it, because the majority of women in Malawi are like us, mandasi sellers.

Since I'm not a seller of the stock, I don't really care what it is today.

And as in other things, so in men, not the seller, but the buyer determines the Price.

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.

'The Battle of Dorking' was reprinted as a book and became a best-seller.

Conspiracy is a small but durable seller, retooled every year or so.

Sure, best seller. I'd love to knock Stephen King off the top of the list. I know I won't, but, after all, I spend my life inventing a different reality.

I want some big money. I feel like I'm a good ticket-seller.

My understanding is that a book becomes a best seller only when it is pirated, sold on footpaths and at traffic lights.

I have high hopes for Renee Ballard's literary life, and it can't start out better than the top of 'USA TODAY''s best-seller list.

My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.

On the strength of Vonnegut's reputation, 'Breakfast of Champions' spent a year on the best-seller lists, proving that he could indeed publish anything and make money.

Of course I want to be a best seller because I'm in the business and I want to be read, but there is no money in the world that can compensate for writing badly.

I never expected to write a book about a slum in Ireland that was going to catapult me, as they say, into some kind of - onto the best seller list.

In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible 'The World's Best Seller.' And it has come to be more and more difficult to say whether we think it is a best seller because it is great, or vice versa.

The tricks and artifices of advertising are available to the seller of the better product no less than to the seller of the poorer product. But only the former enjoys the advantage derived from the better quality of his product.

Rather than empowering all, consumer and shareholder activism gives greatest voice to those with the most money in their pockets, those who can switch from seller to seller with relative ease. Consumer and shareholder activism is a form of protest that favours the middle classes, an outpouring of the dissatisfaction of the bourgeoisie.

I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.

When you've written 10 books and have six on the New York Times best-seller list - and four have been No. 1 - I think you have a right to be a member of Congress.

The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.

If you're looking for a New York Times best-seller, I may or may not give you that.

There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page.

It's embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.

I want to be very clear: if we are to sell this business, we are not a forced seller.

Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.

Tourism provides employment to the poorest of the poor. Gram seller earns something, auto-rickshaw driver earns something, pakoda seller earns something, and tea seller also earns something.

If we were a sex manual it'd be a best-seller.

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.

Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.

Some people get their books on the best-seller list and then they count the number of weeks, and I just never want to live that way.