Selling Quotes

An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.

~ Franklin P. Jones

What costs nothing is worth nothing.

~ Anonymous

Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

~ Ben Jonson

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

~ Publilius Syrus

There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

~ John Ruskin

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods.

~ Thomas Fuller

When you buy use your eyes and your mind not your ears.

~ Czechoslovakian Proverb

People will buy anything that's one to a customer.

~ Sinclair Lewis

We're in the business of selling pleasure. We don't sell handbags or haute couture. We sell dreams.

~ Alain Wertheimer

I buy when other people are selling.

~ J. Paul Getty

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.

~ Freeman Dyson

I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the telephone.

~ Adam Devine

So much of selling a film in the industry is about creating a fulcrum where all the pressure comes to bear, and something seems suddenly valuable and approved by an audience. It's amazing how people could pick up tons of films on the cheap, but they don't because they wait until everything is laid out for them.

~ Whit Stillman

The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.

~ David Ogilvy

I made my money by selling too soon.

~ Bernard Baruch

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

~ Frank Zappa

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

~ P. J. O'rourke

I tried to tell them about the dating process because I'm single now and how horrible it is and how many foolish experiences I had had dating. So I was really selling him hard, but the whole time he really wanted me!

~ Andie Macdowell

All my money was made doing the dates and selling products when I was out there on the road.

~ Mickey Gilley

When billionaire car dealers or manufacturers pay for ambassadorships, at least they pay with money earned by selling something of value.

~ Elizabeth Warren

The U.S. automotive industry has been selling cars the same way for over 100 years, and there are many laws in place to govern exactly how that is to be accomplished.

~ Elon Musk

'The melancholy of all things done' is the way Buzz once described his complete mental breakdown after returning from the moon. Booze. A couple of divorces. A psych ward. Broke. At one point he was selling cars.

~ Jeanne Marie Laskas

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

~ Og Mandino