It’s easier to sell cotton candy than it is to sell broccoli to somebody, but the broccoli is better for you, and the same thing with a limited government.
I couldn’t sell air conditioners on a 98-degree day. When I demonstrated them in a showroom, I pushed the wrong button and blew the circuit.
The killer whale Tilikum has helped SeaWorld sell millions of dollars worth of tickets.
I’m not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn’t do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don’t have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on.
In the future, I’d like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I’ve got enough on my plate!
It’s not how many tickets can we sell, it’s where do we want to play, not where should we play to make the most money. We don’t really care about that.
Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to meet new people, learn to work with people and find common ground. That’s the way you sell houses… that’s also the way you win over constituency.
At the end of the day, I’m an actor. I’m not here to sell other stuff or use off-screen things to generate whether or not I work. If I’m any good, I’ll work; if I’m not, I won’t.
If you tried to sell Mike Birbiglia as a concept, no one would buy it.
I think the good thing about the Internet is to give something away and to sell something else. Get a business model like that because the old brick and mortar record stores are falling apart, and the big record companies are collapsing under their own weight.
I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
If you can’t afford the upkeep of your home, it makes no sense to do a reverse mortgage. You will just end up having to sell eventually when you realize you can’t afford the home, and whether you have any equity left after the sale depends on the size of the reverse loan that must be settled.
There’s nothing wrong with doing sequels, they’re just easier to sell.
Al Gore had no problem taking hundreds of millions of dollars from the government of Qatar to sell his Current TV to Al Jazeera America.
Right now, there are a limited number of customers for Canadian oil. Due to simple geography – and without the pipeline – it’s really only cost effective for Canadian oil producers to sell their oil to North American customers, mostly American Midwesterners.
I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.
I’m not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.
We don’t have to go that far to sell our beer because our immediate accounts sell so much. Places that sold 10 cases before, now they’re selling 30.
I always say, ‘What if you had to sell the house tomorrow?’ And if it’s too idiosyncratic, someone won’t buy it and then it’s a bad house.
Men and women who sell their birthright for a mess of pottage will tell you that their demise began with something small, with some seemingly insignificant breach of integrity that escalated. The little things do matter. It is not possible to profess righteousness while flirting with sin.
The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.
The American people are not just being taxed to death; they’re being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life’s work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.
I’m for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?
Living standards in both the public and private sector have to be brought down. The private sector has to sell more abroad and consume less at home. The government sector has to get closer to just spending what it can collect in taxes.
Freshness is important. If a game is fresh, new, intriguing, challenging, and enchanting, it will sell, and sell well.
I think the most important goal I scored in Spain was the first one because people were wary about me coming over to Spain as a player – they thought I was just there to sell shirts.
Minority views expressed in films simply don’t sell tickets.
When you talk about a great actor, you’re not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It’s inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it’s kind of a sickness.
I just don’t want to talk about my personal life. I feel like it’s mine, I’m not trying to promote it. It’s nice to have things that are your own, that you value enough that you don’t have to use to sell a movie.
Voice acting is very different from live-action. You only have one tool to convey emotion. You can’t sell a line with a look. It’s all about your vocal instrument.
I was a writer. I couldn’t sell anything, and the comedians were among the dumbest people I had ever met. They’d all say to me, ‘The average man won’t understand it.’ You know, they’re superior to the average man.
Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.
People often remark that I’m pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you’ve got to have talent and know how to use it.
It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it’s always difficult to sell open markets.
The last thing we would want is for our fans to feel that we’re trying to find the 17th opportunity to sell them the same song.
I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.
I don’t need a sensationalized headline to sell music or to bring attention to my music. It’s the music and it’s always been about the music.
Everything is designed to help you sell out.
I don’t have a problem being on ‘MTV,’ and I don’t have a problem being on the radio. I actually like it. So there. And anyone that calls me a sell out is just jealous.
Number one, you can sell before you buy. I call it reverse e-commerce. You take a picture, you list it for sale, you sell it, you collect the revenue, then you go buy it and send it to the customer.
If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.
As an author, you can’t expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that’s what you hope for, you shouldn’t sell the rights.
It’s a blessing and a curse when your first big public album does so well. ‘Twentysomething’ sold four million copies – I think we were hoping to sell 80,000. And it’s still selling. In some ways, you’ll always be defined by that.
The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tickets now sell out before the lineup is announced.
Selling wine is all about sizing people up, and it takes a certain amount of chutzpah. The tableside bottle sell is a very funny thing – you take a look at the guy’s blazer, what kind of shoes he’s wearing, what kind of broad he’s with. Is he trying to be a hero?
Lesbian humor isn’t trying to sell anything, it doesn’t have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren’t, more women would do it.
At Walsall I got away with a lot of things because I was the young star and they wanted to sell me from a business point of view.
I buy most of my plants from nurseries outside London these days, but there is a man who mysteriously appears each February to sell plants from a derelict site in Market Road. I think he’s Greek, but people say he comes from Essex. He vanishes at the end of May only to reappear in December as suddenly as he went.
There are words that work, that are meant to explain and educate on policies that work, on products that work, on services that work. I’m not going to ever try to sell a lemon. I don’t do that.
There’s a side to me that likes to make clothes for everyday. But I also think of fashion as an escape. It’s like a dream. Even in an economy that isn’t strong and where it’s important to sell clothes, you have to make things that let people dream a little.
I did a couple of pilots that didn’t sell, a few movies, and one year of nightclub work, which I hated. Then I did the pilot of ‘The Brady Bunch’ and never had to do another nightclub.
When I was 26, I founded Peaceworks as a food company that brought together Israelis, Arabs, Turks, and others in conflict regions to make and sell various food products from the Middle East. That economic cooperation helped bridge divides and cultivate mutual understanding among neighbors.
As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it’s important that we use that voice wisely.
‘Disruption’ is, at its core, a really powerful idea. Everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now. It’s the same way people hijacked the word ‘paradigm’ to justify lame things they’re trying to sell to mankind.
I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly well established now, which is the substitution for a real sense of a country of a hideous distortion which you can sell to the people called ‘heritage’.
