Sells Quotations

Russia does not have a modern economy: it's a petro-power. The only thing it sells that the world wants to buy is oil and natural gas. When was the last time anyone bought a Russian computer? A Russian car? A Russian cell phone? Russia is so dependent on high energy prices that if oil falls below $100 a barrel, the Kremlin can't meet payroll.

I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.

So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration.

You only have one thing to sell in life, and that's yourself.

I don't like to sell my finest pieces.

I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.

Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want.

No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.

Sooner or later, we sell out for money

The chief problem with the individual investor: He or she typically buys when the market is high and thinks it's going to go up, and sells when the market is low and thinks it's going to go down.

Art work is inconclusive. It opens your mind up. At least, that's what I hope it does. And advertising, using exactly the same photograph, closes things down. It makes it conclusive. It sells a product, and that is its primary function.

We're gonna totally sell out and try to dominate the world

I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I can give you a long list of books which should have been best sellers but they aren't. How can you buy a book if you haven't heard of it?

There's no white comic that sells tickets to black people like me. They're going to get their hair done, get a new outfit, and come out to see a white dude.

I came up almost completely through the subsidised theatre. I have never been absolutely at the market interface, where I've got to sell my wares or die - I've always been protected from that.

Have you ever read the back of the Newman's Diavolo pasta sauce? Dad on the front is dressed like the devil with a little beard and horns. He says that he sells his soul to the devil for the recipe. It was banned in the South. They thought it was an abomination.

It's important for me to sell a product that works.

I'd love to sell out completely. It's just that nobody has been willing to buy.

It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it's always difficult to sell open markets.

If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.

I like to keep my Twitter pure. I don't want to sell my followers anything.

I always felt that the music sells by itself. The music has always been the successful aspect on my career, and that means that, to me, I can always still stay very focused on music.

Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

Sell yourself first, if you want to sell anything.

I wear clothes and sell products and ideas.

The most important thing is readers. I've got a huge Twitter following, but I don't really think it sells books; I don't think a huge Facebook following sells books - although these things aren't bad, of course.

I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those.

I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.

Ottolenghi sells lots of delicious sweet things, but my daily addiction is their unbelievable dark chocolate salted caramel biscuits. They're the best things in the world - I go through half a packet every night. I bring them out after pudding at dinner parties.

A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well.

Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make.

I couldn't pick up a sword and go fight anyone, let me put it that way. It's choreography and it's acting. The best sword fights you see look amazing, but it's the acting that sells it more than anything.

I don't think 'Call Of Duty: Black Ops' sells 25 million plus copies and makes of a billion dollars because of their great storytelling. It's the multiplayer aspect of that type of game, where people get together to shoot each other and have fun. And it's very much gameplay; it's like 'Gran Turismo' or one of these racing games.

Think of any news site on the web that sells subscriptions; AOL has four times as many people as the largest subscription service. We have people who pay to use our products and services, and they are heavily engaged in our content.

To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.

Fun without sell gets nowhere but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.

I can't stand Beyonce. The way she sells it so hard, constantly. Everything is shoved right in your face. Like, you don't have the sense to make a judgment of your own.

My goal was never to sell many records.

I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

It used to be that you had to do a certain number of episodes to hit syndication in order to try to keep a show on, because it's important to the network because it sells good commercial time. That's really not how HBO does things.

My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. The responses were things like, my dad sells money, and my dad figures stuff out. My son said, 'I've never seen my dad do work.' It's true. Skateboarding doesn't seem like real work, but I'm proud of what I do.

We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.

But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.

Nobody's going to sell 10 million records by not working hard.

I'd sell my soul for a good cause.

No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.

Everything is designed to help you sell out.

One thing about an artist, it doesn't matter how much your work sells for in your life, it's going to sell for ten times more than that after you're dead, and that's what you have to protect.

Everybody has to sell out at some point to make a living.

Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!

I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days.

You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.

I have my own gym. When you do jokes and they sell, you get a gym.

I think that any writer who is commercial, who sells a lot of books, has to face criticism. Because the more hermetic and the more difficult your book is, supposedly it's better.

You've got to be able to sell yourself.

Watch out for this company. It's telling us something. While most retailers sold indistinguishable products, Sharper Image sells exciting and unique things that people want to buy.

When we were rumored to have split, and when our publicists called these magazines to say we haven't split, the magazines were all so disappointed because that's really what's selling, rooting for a couple and then they split. That's what sells the magazines.

We're getting to the latter half of the year. and typically, the industry sells close to 20 percent more PCs in the second half versus the first half. People are getting ready in anticipation of a much stronger second half of the year.

It's whatever sells; it's the business of it.

EFR entered into an agreement to sell some noncore assets for $2.05M.

It is far more difficult... to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.

I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell.

In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it.

Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.

We want to see what his line of reasoning was and if it's a valid argument, then perhaps the dollar sells off. If his comments are not as dovish as people might fear, the dollar might rally.

You're gay, you sell books... you probably shag the books.

Truth is the easiest thing to sell.

You can make up your own opinion, but you can't make up your own facts, go sell.

I don't make culture. I sell it.

None of us know what is going to sell or what people want to read.

I don't sell cosmetics, I sell hope.

Never buy a stock because it has gone up or sell one because it has gone down.

Never buy a stock immediately after a substantial rise or sell one immediately after a substantial drop.

If you can't sell your product, it's not a product-it's a hobby.

Ads sell a great deal more than products. They sell values, images, and concepts of success and worth.

In a bear market, you have to use sharp countertrend rallies to sell.

I regularly buy and sell cars, but I do not buy and sell fleets.

If I don't buy it, I can't sell it.

No one ever expects poetry to sell.

When the market sells off like it has in the last few days our software lets users know that they can lower their cost per share. When the market goes back up, the software will have those same investors lighten up on their holding.

He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.

Many people in technology say the killer app is pirated content, ... Some feel the availability of illegal content sells computers. It's very hard to negotiate with an industry that thinks its short-term growth is dependent on theft.

Of course, nothing happens until somebody sells something.

No other policy sells patients health care coverage that promises so much yet delivers so little.

Nobody thought a skateboarder could get endorsement deals. There is a product for every subculture. Mountain Dew sells to extreme athletes. Deodorant is being sold to urban markets with rappers.

Nobody sells books like J.K. Rowling. We have a rule in publishing: Never compare anything to 'Harry Potter' because it's like lightning in a bottle.

Nobody sells a house before fixing it up. If you want to sell you fix it up first, ... But if Hurd can make the PC business consistently profitable then there is no need to get rid of it. It can be a decent business.

No doubt offense sells the tickets, but defense wins the championships.

I go to a lot of wine dinners and people are surprised that our wine sells for $25. They're used to paying $50 for a good bottle of wine.

Captaris widened its lead in 2004 in large part because of its strategy to add workflow and document management products to its RightFax fax server. Captaris is embarking on a future where it sells complete solutions to business entities that solve all their paper problems.

I find all food irresistible. I have friends who live in the mountains in France. One of them sells vegetables, and to walk through her garden when everything is bursting out - it's impossible not to eat something.

I feel like the way we play, and having a player like Ivory, sells the game of basketball. Because I want people to fall in love with women's basketball.

If it sells well, our hope is McDonald's will embrace this across their entire system and all 13,000 stores will convert to Fair Trade in the next year or two. With McDonald's, I think that sends a very powerful signal to the entire industry. Fair Trade is here to stay and mainstream Americans are concerned with fairness and they are willing to buy it.

He who buys what he needs not, sells what he needs

We are fighting against a traitor who sells the country to the Singaporean government.

Her excitement and enthusiasm and passion for the game, it makes people smile. I can't tell you the number of letters and e-mails and phone calls we have gotten from people that have just said how she brightens their day. ... I feel like the way we play and having a player like Ivory sells the game of basketball.

It is like taking the tires off cars. It was a real sudden impact for the entire industry including Asia and Europe and everywhere that sells foam surfboards.

I think the whole auto industry is moving towards build to order. I think this is a smart move by Microsoft, focusing on what it does best, writing software, and a smart move by Ford, moving it forward on how it sells cars.