#sale

A 'For Sale' sign in your yard during the holidays is like a 'kick me' sign. You are telling buyers you are a distressed seller. ↗

— Ray Brown

#distressed #during #holidays #kick #like

I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year. ↗

— Michael F. Easley

#cent #fast #grow #had #hoped

Israel's days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return. ↗

— Yitzhak Shamir

#gaza #gone #israel #jerusalem #return

We built that into a wholesale business that became, really, one of the largest companies in the United States. We had success in building new markets, opening markets for competition, and that takes a personal toll. ↗

— Jeffrey Skilling

#building #built #business #companies #competition

To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#me #music #sale

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#among #attractive #elements #equally #fair

Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#books #costly #fix #how #market

My hardcover sales are 17% down in books but up 400% in electronics. ↗

— Lisa See

#down #electronics #hardcover #sales #up

What he wasn't so good at was manipulating the internal states of other humans, getting them to see things his way, do things for him. His baseline attitude toward other humans wass that they could all just go fuck themselves and that he was not going to expend any effort whatsoever getting them to change the way they thought. This was probably rooted in a belief that hed been inculcated to him from the get-go: that there was an objective reality, which all people worth talking to could observe and understand, and that there was no point in arguing about anything that could be so observed and so understood. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#sales #attitude

For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sales. I think that happens with other kinds of disabilities and products and that is something that is being realized more and more. ↗

— Richard Masur

#commercial #deaf #disabilities #example #first