Henry Kissinger Quotes

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

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• Before my book, 'California,' came out, I had modest hopes for it. Or, let's put it this way - I had the same hopes that every literary fiction writer in America has: I wanted the novel to be well-received, critically. As for sales? I didn't want it to disappoint, but I didn't expect it to be a best-seller, either.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Book
  • America
  • Same

• I can ask for a £25,000 advance, but then you spend a year writing the book, and £25,000 is a loan against sales, and you can easily spend five years earning out. So that's £25,000 for six years.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Year

• I think that educators are in sales. Essentially, what you are doing is making an exchange with your class. You're saying, 'Give me your attention. In exchange, I'll give you something else.' The cash register is not ringing. It's not denominated in dollars or cents or euros, but it is a form of sales in a way. It is an exchange.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Saying

• Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Free
  • Sales
  • Electricity

• It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Independent
  • Sales
  • Budget

• I love going to tag sales, to auctions.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Love
  • Going
  • Sales

• I want to position my books as premium-priced versions on the reasonably-priced scale, if that makes sense, to find a sweet spot between the high-end of what my brand can support and the low end that results in impulse purchases and maximum sales volume.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • High
  • Support
  • End

• I could care less about the radio or the TV or album sales. I want that connection with people because when I'm able to walk down the street, I want them to feel like I've done something for them and helped their life because I've never felt that way about a musician.

  

  Vince Staples
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• Big screens helped propel Samsung to top-tier prominence and helped iPhone sales explode a few years later. But for many, including myself, the biggest-screen models just weren't practical, because their overall size made them too large, too bulky, and too heavy.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Myself
  • Sales
  • iPhone

• One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered even over sales.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Power
  • Right
  • Taught

• There's a difference between publicity and marketing. A lot of writers don't realize how much marketing goes on beyond the scenes, with sales reps and advanced reading copies, all that stuff that happens months before a book is published.

  

  Victoria Strauss
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Marketing

• My dad's an ex-policeman, and my mum is a sales representative, and they haven't got the acting bug. Bless them.

  

  Olivia Cooke
  • Dad
  • Acting
  • Sales

• When I started losing business to salespeople who were using used-car salesmen kind of tactics, I realized I can't ignore the EQ thing; it's going to kill sales.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Business
  • Car
  • Ignore

• I support both a Fair Tax and a Flat Tax plan that would dramatically streamline the tax system. A Fair Tax would replace all federal taxes on personal and corporate income with a single national tax on retail sales, while a Flat Tax would apply the same tax rate to all income with few if any deductions or exemptions.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Support
  • Single
  • Same

• Microeconomics is the study of how specific choices made by businesses, consumers and governments affect the markets for different goods and services. For example, a microeconomist might examine how price changes affect sales of apples relative to oranges.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Different
  • Study
  • Choices

• I don't do this for the money, I don't do it for record sales, I don't really care about that, I just want to make beats.

  

  David Guetta
  • Money
  • Sales

• Upfronts are all about ad sales.

  

  Bryan Fuller
  • Sales

• There are those who say the music industry must adapt to a wired world. They point to the decades-long rise in CD prices, even as manufacturing costs came down, and to data that shows Napster may actually increase sales of CDs by music-hungry customers as evidence that the music industry is simply afraid of a new technology.

  

  Parker Conrad
  • World
  • Music
  • Long

• 80% of all products and services that will be on the market in five years do not exist today. So therefore, always be innovative, always be creative, always think, 'What new products or services could I create, could I represent, could I joint venture?" Sometimes you can find someone else that has a fabulous product or service that you can use your existing business or resources to sell and you can double your income or sales in your business by selling somebody else's product to the same customers that are buying yours.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Today

• Fact is based upon vulgar matter.

  

  Charles Olson

• Religion is there to say, 'Hey, you don't have to worry - there's an afterlife.'

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Worry

• I hate throwing personal things away, especially my cards. As I know I won't be dancing for ever, these are the things that I will look back on.

  

  Darcey Bussell
  • Hate

• But what I've also really liked about it is that it not only has Marvel set about... if they just were slavishly trying to bring the comic books to life, literally, I don't the movies would work, because it's different to see something on screen in three dimensions with actors, and they kind of, I believe, are constantly trying to find a way to absolutely respect the source material and at the same time, transform it into something that works and that you believe on screen.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Sales
  • Items