Quotes of Sale - somelinesforyou

“ Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman — not the attitude of the prospect. ”

- W. Clement Stone

“ The sale begins when the customer says yes. ”

- Harvey McKay

“ A sale is not something you pursue, it's what happens to you while you are immersed in serving your customer. ”

- Unknown

“ Everyone lives by selling something. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune. ”

- Jim Rohn

“ A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. ”

- Karl Marx

“ When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves. ”

- Marshall McLuhan

“ Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Sell cheap and tell the truth. ”

- Rose Blumkin

“ The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough. ”

- Zig Ziglar

“ Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it. ”

- Publilius Syrus

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

- Franklin P. Jones

“ I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach. ”

- David Ogilvy

“ The upshot of the matter was that Morgan devised a plan for the sale of a large amount of Vanderbilt's stock holdings through private sale in England, and in such a way that the knowledge of such sale would not become public in America. ”

- John Moody

“ Buying is a profound pleasure. ”

- Simone De Beauvoir

“ A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself. ”

- Arthur William Radford

“ Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year. ”

- Marty Allen

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

- Gandhi

“ The NeXT Computer: The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a workstation, the unit sales makes it a mainframe. ”

- Anon.

“ I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale. ”

- Early Wynn

“ Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares. ”

- Rosser Reeves

“ I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran. ”

- Andy Rooney

“ A sale is not something you pursue, it's what happens to you while you are immersed in serving your customer. ”

- Unknown

“ I myself have been to book auctions. ”

- Dylan Moran

“ If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. ”

- Norman Augustine

“ I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year. ”

- Jeffrey Archer

“ What we want is some sort of communism not based on wages, nor profits, nor any sort of buying and selling but on a religion of life. ”

- D.H. Lawrence

“ Today the tyrant rules, not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher; he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort. ”

- Marshall McLuhan
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