I have sold stuff door-to-door, but not doors.
In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels.
I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.
I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn’t. I have drawers full of – or I did have – drawers full of rejection slips.
When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out – and it’s been sold out ever since.
I’ve met a lot of artists who wanted to paint me. LeRoy Neiman was one. He did it from a photograph. He made 20,000 copies, and we sold them all.
Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I share with them to do.
Newfangled online sites like ‘Business Insider’ and ‘Huffington Post’ built businesses they later sold for hundreds of millions of dollars by ripping off the work of more talented journalists and then playing Google’s digitally native games better than the old fogeys ever could.
A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
This book, ‘Stupid White Men,’ has sold now over four million copies worldwide. Probably about half of that may be in the U.S. and Canada, and the rest, overseas.
When people see you have a song on MTV, they think you are doing well – but you know, the way the traditional label deal was set up, it is really hard for an artist, unless they sold a lot, to see anything.
We need the government to force the banks to write down all their bad assets now and then recapitalize themselves, preferably with private capital. Those banks that cannot raise sufficient capital should be seized and their deposits sold off.
There was a time, after I earned my graduate degree and before I sold my first novel, when it looked like I might have to get an office job.
Some musicians like to decorate their walls with discs saying: ‘1 million records sold in America.’ I prefer to put up discs marking sales in lesser-known countries.
I started writing ‘The Lobster Kings’ the day after I sold my first novel, ‘Touch.’
It is up to you civilians to give a hand to show that we intend to take our responsibilities to maintain the integrity of our Empire, by giving the world proof that we have not all sold out to the Jew or Plutocrat.
If I had written a book saying, ‘Ladies, your life is terrible,’ I would have sold three copies. It’s always better to laugh people into recognition.
I’ve never sold widely enough to be able to relax about money. I had two kids and their mother to support and my own life. So there was never an option of cutting out.
I can’t help thinking that if the American West were discovered today, the most glorious bits would be sold off to the highest bidder. Yosemite might be nothing but weekend homes for Internet tycoons.
The first record blew up and sold really well. ‘City of Black & White’ didn’t sell as well, and that’s when you wonder, ‘Did I peak already?’
The success of Revamp is clear. We’ve sold a lot of albums, we’ve done very good tours, and wherever we play, we get a very positive response, and that’s something that would be very nice to keep.
As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. It was like being in McDonald’s and realizing that even though cheeseburgers and fries sold big, you could also make money serving up McRibs, which are always available for a limited time only.
I think that I have sold out sometimes.
I stole my first albums ‘Pin-Ups’ and ‘Hunky Dory’ by David Bowie from the first super-sized supermarket in Salford, which also sold tents and camping gear.
Weapons systems the U.S. sold to the Shah of Iran wound up in the hands of Islamic militants who seized power there in 1979; a comparable scenario in Saudi Arabia is hardly impossible.
We could be as rich as the Rolling Stones if we sold as many records.
The things I have sold to film, I’ve sold because I was happy to rent out the right to adapt those works. Some things, I haven’t sold to film, because I was less interested in having no control over the adaptation.
Every sandwich I sold, the city got more sales tax, the state got more. But they came in and they would want to give me a ticket because I have a sign outside trying to get more business, right?
I haven’t sold to the movies. In other words, I haven’t gotten any enormous checks yet.
My maternal grandfather owned a grocery store that also sold kosher meat. He did well.
My parents sold my childhood home, and I literally was 35 years old, but I cried for, like, two and a half weeks. Like, openly wailed.
I don’t need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second.
It’s always smart to know your market – what kind of buyers are looking in your neighborhood? What have other houses sold for in that area? Check out some of the open houses if possible and you’ll start to learn about what people in that area value.
Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles – poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.
Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.
When I was a young boy I sold newspapers by the side of the road. I cleaned the shoes of people for less than a pound a time. I was 12 years old but I had to do it to eat because my family was so poor.
Forty percent of all electronics sold are assembled by Foxconn.
Steampunk appeals to the idea of uniqueness, to the one-off item, while every mainstream consumer technology of recent years is about putting human beings into ever more granular, packageable and mass-produced identities so that they can be sold or sold to, perfectly mapped and understood.
‘Coraline’ is Neil Gaiman’s book, it sold a lot, it has a big fan base. It was originally conceived to be live action, but I never really wanted it to be. I always thought that it would work better as an animated film.
A lot of people kind of perceive me as some kind of pop act because in the early ’80s ‘I Love A Rainy Night’ went No. 1 for two weeks in a row and ‘Driving My Life Away’ sold a million records.
To me, the real opinion polls are the tangible facts: the growing creation of jobs, the number of planning permissions, the number of commercial vans being sold – the signs that the Irish people are regaining confidence.
Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris.
From the moment I went to Hollywood for the first time, I was accused by various people of selling out. So I feel I’ve done my sell-out films already. I’ve sold everything! I’ve sold every piece of soul I ever had!
I believe the UFC was sold based on their performance and the services they’ve provided, so if a company comes in and buys it, they just bought the blueprints of their success. I believe that WME-IMG bought the UFC because of its structure and success.
I feel like I can’t be sick without some story being made up or some photos being sold a month later.
Vanilla Ice sold ten million records. For him to be on MTV, it made me feel like it could be done.
What launched me toward Feedburner? Well, the Internet happened. When I saw Mosaic, I thought, ‘I gotta do this.’ I founded and sold a few companies. Feedburner was my fourth.
I think the environmental movement has failed in that it’s used the stick too much; it’s used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn’t sold the positive aspects of being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out.
The alliance with air Berlin is attractive for me. I can use the whole sales network of the air Berlin and 24 percent of my own airline at air Berlin sold.
When I was teaching at Cambridge, I sold handbags on the market.
I realized that I got problems bigger than anything that can happen in prison. So I started reading books, talking to people who had a head on their shoulders, sold my TV and just got a whole bunch of books.
Man, I was scared. I didn’t know what to think. All of a sudden, I got a record climbing the charts, and I’m out in the streets. You know, workin’ on the docks. And the first week, it sold something like 40,000 in New Orleans.
Only a certain number of people go to a store over the period of a year. When a person sees my record on the shelf, it eliminates someone else’s record from being sold. It’s about continuing to try to find new ways to sell records.
I have bought and sold and bought and sold things that have given me great pleasure over the years, and I find I go through phases of what I’m passionate about. And then the next thing comes along, and so the only way of being able to collect the next one is to sell a few of the other ones.
Principles, convictions and motives are neither sold nor bargained for!
Buckhannon, population 5,639, is a deeply conservative town and long has been. While coal is its past, oil and gas are its likely future. It’s a town where guns are sold at yard sales, where Pentecostal churches are nearly as common as restaurants, and where distrust of Hillary Clinton is visceral and deep-seated.
