#selling

[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about or what may be the momentary craze for books that appear to have been hammered out by the village blacksmith in a state of intoxication; the minute you get the easy touch of the real craftsman with centuries of civilisation behind him, you get literature. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#craft #craftsmanship #creative-process #crudeness #culture

Always set your goals higher than you could ever possibly reach. That way, when you barely fall short, you're still better than everybody else. ↗

— Carson V. Heady

#how-to-sell #learning-to-sell #sales-coach #sales-concepts #sales-help

I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles. ↗

— Bjork

#could #having #i #mind #nerd

I'm not sure about the selling part, but I've always found that the things I've worn on tour have moved over to what people wear every day. Sometimes the things I wore in the beginning before I had money were things I put together. ↗

— Steven Tyler

#always #before #beginning #day #every

I was a 10 million-plus selling artist. ↗

— Toni Braxton

#i #selling

And so it can be very much in the interest of bank A to sell-short bank B shares, or buy CDSes on bank B, because they have exposure to bank B. It's the responsible thing to do as a fiduciary, and yet if everyone does it at the same time, it's destabilizing because everyone is selling. ↗

— James Chanos

#because #buy #does #everyone #exposure

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants. ↗

— Michael Dell

#both #care #customer #design #interesting

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#banging #doing #drum #during #election

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#anything #become #certainty #fortune #make

Selling millions of records is great, but at the end of the day it really doesn't bring peace. ↗

— TobyMac

#day #end #end of the day #great #millions