Sales Quotes
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To many book professionals, Amazon is a ruthless predator. The company claims to want a more literate world - and it came along when the book world was in distress, offering a vital new source of sales.
George Packer
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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.
Weird Al Yankovic
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It's always consoling to know that today's Christmas gifts are tomorrow's garage sales.
Milton Berle
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The Sales were important to us because that was how we got hold of things from outside.
Kazuo Ishiguro
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We enjoyed an incredible response when we did the video for 'Bringin' On The Heartbreak'. We did it a couple of months after the album had been released and it perked up sales. We really enjoyed making them - each video had a different theme and we did them all at one time over the span of a couple of days. Our music stands up on its own, but the video adds an extra element.
Steve Clark Def Leppard
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Internalize the Golden Rule of sales that says: All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like and trust.
Bob Burg
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Some stars can make five or six failures in a row and continue to work - with a raise. I can't figure how that works. Maybe foreign sales or a smart agent.
Powers Boothe
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Marketing tells a story that spreads. Sales overcomes the natural resistance to say yes.
Seth Godin
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The slowdown in PC sales has been pretty well documented, and we're trying to give consumers a reason to buy.
Brad Williams
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I received an award for 25 million in [album] sales the night before the bus accident [in 1990].
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
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I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.
Antony Beevor
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Increase of population was always good news to us. More people, more sales. Decrease of IQ was always good news to us. Less brains, more sales.
Frederik Pohl
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Every sandwich I sold, the city got more sales tax, the state got more. But they came in and they would want to give me a ticket because I have a sign outside trying to get more business, right?
Kevin McCarthy
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Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales.
Michael Schudson
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We need to change the focus from celebrating sales at the mall to celebrating the significance of President Washington's birth to the birth of our nation.
Frank Wolf
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The information they gave us is that they travel around doing door-to-door magazines sales.
Eric Johnson
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I'm surviving and developing as a writer. I don't know what brings you to mass attention in terms of sales. But I've gotten more and more comfortable with it. Of course if that changes, I'll be comfortable with that. All I can do is write the best books I can.
Daniel Woodrell
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You forced us to view production as a means to satisfy sales. I want to change the role production is playing in getting sales.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
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Overall, I think what the sales number is telling us is that the consumer is starting to take up some of the slack we're seeing in the trade sector and inventories.
Bruce Bartlett
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We have reduced sales tax on food. Now we want it eliminated.
Joe Manchin
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Our wholesale sales continued to be exceptionally strong. Unit sales were up sharply as we benefited from a strong increase in appraisal traffic.
Austin Ligon
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I'll be honest with you, one of the things that frustrated me the most out the record leak thing, it had nothing to do with record sales - I mean, that's a joke. Has anybody looked at how many records anybody sells anymore? If you're not Jay-Z, a record leaking isn't going to affect you. It was just really personal.
Bradford Cox
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In order to significantly increase sales we have to increase the perception of value of the market for our products.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
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Sales managers should track the number of first meetings with "right fit" prospects a sales person is engaged in on a monthly basis...This metric alone will serve as a powerful, early-warning system to sales performance.
Adrian Davis