Quotation Explorer - 'Sell'

a penny for my thoughts oh no i'll sell em for a dollar their worth so much more after im a goner and then maybe you'll hear the words ive been singing funny when your dead how people start listening - The Band Perry
they're so fond of Liberty in this part of the globe, that they buy her and sell her and carry her to market with 'em. They've such a passion for Liberty, that they can't help taking liberties with her. - Charles Dickens
Some marriages are made in heaven,Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork chops they sell in the pet department at Kmart. - Tom Robbins
If you think it's funny to make fun of the "used car salesman," you better only buy new and never sell your car. Just sayin. - Richie Norton
People everywhere have the same needs and values. They need a place to live and a job. Beyond that, they may need to sell stuff or get a mate. - Craig Newmark
When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality. - Al Capone
Politics, like insurance, security, pharmaceutical and religious institutions all work the same. They sell the idea of a threat along with the antidote. Marketing 101. - Tarryn Tomlinson
If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing. - Martin Luther
When life gives you lemons, sell them and buy a pineapple. How to better your life 101. - Davin Turney
Only a prostitute will trade her valuables for money, so you shouldn't sell your God given ideas and talents for money, because you don't own it in any way but should be by a divine authority. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't write to sell, write to tell. - Jonas Eriksson
People sell their soul in such small quantities - a seemingly trivial compromise here, a rationalization of a minor evil there - that they don't realize what they're doing until it is too late. - Mike Klepper
While you can't hold on to everything forever, you're a fool if you sell back your college books at semester's end: have you learned nothing of this life? - Ander Monson
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman. - David M. Ogilvy
The 'free' laborer, thanks to the development of capitalistic production, agrees, i.e. is compelled by social conditions, to sell the whole of his active life, his birthright for a mass of pottage. - Karl Marx
Think it. Write it. Sell it. - Dee J. Adams
Sell your materials but save your morals. - Amit Kalantri
There was no better way to sell a lie, she knew, than to sprinkle it with truth. - Kaede Lazares
No offense but a seller will say whatever it takes to sell a product but if you sum it up, it comes down to hard work. - Auliq Ice
Luck is only important insofar 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. - Frank Sinatra
Please sell $10,000 worth of stock we have decided to lead a mad and extravagant life. - Harry Crosby
What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. - Logan Pearsall Smith
To make money you have to use a four letter word: SELL. - Richie Norton
Am I a friend or a prospect? Imagine how much kinder life would be if people put as much effort into befriending others instead of trying to sell them something. - Donna Lynn Hope
Don’t let anyone sell you on the idea that anything (apart from the Lord Himself) is more important than your marriage. God means for your life and your marriage to be filled with passion and purpose. - Elizabeth George
Once you sell people fear, they'll buy just about anything. - David Alejandro Fearnhead
I resent when I go out to dinner and they try to sell me the healthy food for the same price as the good food. - Jim Gaffigan
Sustainability is best illustrated by those who sell food just so they afford something to eat. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To feel the joy of life, sell your pride and get lost in the simplicity and humility. - Debasish Mridha
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. - Confucius
Many people will try to Sell you a Dream, its Your place to let them know you Already have one! - Kalon Jackson
Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will out sell the other. - Raymond Loewy
All civilized wo/men are prostitutes: Some sell what's between their legs; the rest sell what's between their ears. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Buy a stock, if it goes up, sell it, if it goes down, don't buy it. - Yogi Berra
This love of money is the curse of American, and for the sake of it men will sell honor and honesty, till we don't know whom to trust, and it is only a genius like Agassiz who dares to say, 'I cannot waste my time in getting rich,'" said Mrs. Jessie sadly. - Louisa May Alcott
Capitalism is not a form of government. Capitalism is but one thing only: Buy Low - Sell High. Capitalism is what happens when a government allows free association and respects property rights. It is a symptom of liberty. - A.E. Samaan
Some photographers could vomit on a piece of paper and call it art, you know... Hang it in the Guggenheim, or whatever. Sell a print for two hundred pounds? But I can't do that. I just-- Maybe I have too much respect for walls... or something. - Pansy Schneider-Horst
You can't buy the love you want, you can't sell your love. Love is given by those who deserves it. - Jayson Engay
Sell your book like a can of beans & your readers will place the same value on it. - Stuart Aken
The first rule of business, is never sell something you love. Otherwise, you may as well be selling your children. - Hugh Macleod
You can't judge a book by it's cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good one. - Jayce O'Neal
I decided that if I was never going to sell anything as long as I lived, I might as well do what I want to do 'cause then at least I would've done what I wanted to do in life. What's that worth? - Janet Fitch
Anyone who tries to sell some brand of wisdom or enlightenment is a charlatan. - Marty Rubin
Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell you. - Ryan Lilly
Buy on the rumor; sell on the news. - Wall Street Proverb
Try to live your life so that you wouldn't be afraid to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. - Will Rogers
To buy excuses, a person must sell his dream. - Orrin Woodward
I've heard many say "I'll sell my soul to the Devil"in hopes of gaining money, power or fame.Why do they think that they have that much worth over any other person?And the Devil if there is one wouldn't simply wait for them to condemn themselves on their own - Stanley Victor Paskavich
They deem me mad for I will not sell my days for gold; I deem them mad for they think my days have a price. - Kahlil Gibran
If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success? - Jerry Seinfeld
Most women sell sex; most of them just don’t take cash (nor do they each sell to more than one ‘client’ at a time). - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself. - Elinor Florence
If Heaven actually exists, I don't need anyone to be my real estate broker. After all, what is religion but an attempt to sell you a share in the ultimate gated community? - Quentin R. Bufogle
If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy? - Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client. - William S. Burroughs
It just seem like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it's so sad that there are so many musicians who don't want to change the world... Music has been so much more. - Moby
I sell my children, and though they feed me, they don't love me as hers do. - Louisa May Alcott
If you have two shirts, sell one and with the money buy a flower’. - Idries Shah
The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them. - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice. - Magna Carta
You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't. - Naomi Klein
There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey. - John Ruskin
We would rather starve than sell our national honor. - Indira Gandhi
I propose that the forces of corporate totalitarianism are deliberately destroying this entire world in order to sell their simulated version of it back to us at a profit. - Diane Harvey
Our creations MUST be shared to be art, and the easiest way to share our art is to sell it. - Laura Moncur
Take the things from America that speak to you, that excite you, that inspire you, and be the Americans we all want to know; then cook it up and sell it back to them for $28.99. Cue Funk Flex to drop bombs on this. All my peoples from the boat, let 'em know: WEOUTCHEA. - Eddie Huang
I have a cat named Trash. In the current political climate it would seem that if I were trying to sell him (at least to a Computer Scientist), I would not stress that he is gentle to humans and is self-sufficient, living mostly on field mice. Rather, I would argue that he is object-oriented.
They are so damn 'intellectual' and rotten that I can't stand them anymore....I [would] rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those 'artistic' bitches of Paris. - Frida Kahlo
Self-Empowerment is free to anyone who chooses to use it. It comes from within and nowhere else. You cannot buy it, borrow it, steal it or sell it. It is always available to you and never wears out. The only choice you have to make is whether or not you will use it. - Gary Hopkins
Could dump two Chinee down in one of our maria and they would get rich selling rocks to each other while raising twelve kids. Then a Hindu would sell retail stuff he got from them wholesale--below cost at a fat profit. We got along. - Robert A. Heinlein
when the life gives you lemon, simply sell them and buy something sweet like chocolate - samuel ariel parker
... I told him I was so happy that I had nothing else to pray for. 'Why,'says I, I've got prayers to sell. - Sandra Dallas
Indie authors write, design, sell. Like magic, skip one and you make must read vanish. - Temple Emmet Williams
Lead your life so you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. - Will Rogers
To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have lived well
To feel pure joy, sell your pride and be loving and kind. - Debasish Mridha
when you disobey the rule, you sell your freedom. You cripple your real you. The daily direction of your life is restricted and directed by the rule and the ruling - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
If you can sell a Religion, you can sell Anything. - Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela
Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term 'entrepreneur' but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it. - Ryan Lilly
Sell the results, not the nuts and bolts. - Richie Norton
Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us. - Anonymous
In fiction's grip, we may mortage our homes, sell our children, to have whatever it is we crave.
Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt. - Og Mandino
Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it. - Will Rogers
You Don't Have To Be The Best Writer In The World To Become A Successful Author. However, You Do Need To Sell Lots of Books. - Chris Mentillo
For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters. - Arthur Golden
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power. - Benjamin Franklin
We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of tomatoes, for example, just pass a law that retailers can't sell tomatoes for more than two cents per pound. Instantly you'll have a tomato shortage. It's the same with oil or gas. - Milton Friedman
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. - Will Rogers
There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and he who considers price only is that man's lawful prey. - John Ruskin
The next time you come to the Cookie Jar, the coffee’s on me. You could probably bottle that stuff of yours and sell it for rat poison. - Joanne Fluke
We each sell alittle piece of happiness. You are elevating someone's spirit in some way, and to do that you have to understand the source of their angst and then you have to frame your product as a solution. - Sonia Marciano
When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book. - Christopher Morley
On cheap tippers:"Don't take it personally; they were deprived somehow as children.On low-fat entrees: "They sell well enough, but nobody's too happy after the meal. - Joan Bauer
When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. - Christopher Morley
Indentured servitude is banned, but what about students seeking to sell shares of their future earnings in exchange for money up front to pay for their college tuitions? - Robert B. Reich
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell. - H. L. Mencken
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires. - Abigail Van Buren
What’s the use of writing poetry for your peers? I don’t think I should sell my poetry to other poets. If that’s who my audience is, I’m dead, I’m not going to make any money. - Harley King
The biggest mistake brands make are trying to sell their stuff rather than clarifying what people are actually buying. - David Brier
A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue. A viler evil than to throw a man into a sacrificial furnace, is to demand that he leap in, of his own will, and that he build the furnace, besides. - Ayn Rand
We're not a security guard company. We sell a *concept* of security.
Anyone with a great product to sell should never criticize competing products. Your product should sell on its own merit. Consumers want the best of the best, not the best of a bad situation. - Zack W. Van
The proper task of social reform is to remove poverty from society and to ensure that people do not sell their conscience to make a living. - Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
People say - popular culture advocates - government demands that we sell our souls, for nothing but the cheapest of baubles and bling, if even that. If you do sell, the result is a gray, cheerless, and dreary existence. - Mike Klepper
The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money. - David Richerby
I don't want to buy anything, sell anything or process anything. I don't want to process anything bought or sold, or buy anything processed or sold, or sell anything bought, sold or processed.
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