selling

So much of selling a film in the industry is about creating a fulcrum where all the pressure comes to bear, and something seems suddenly valuable and approved by an audience. It's amazing how people could pick up tons of films on the cheap, but they don't because they wait until everything is laid out for them.

I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the telephone.

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.

I buy when other people are selling.

We're in the business of selling pleasure. We don't sell handbags or haute couture. We sell dreams.

An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.

It is naught it is naught saith the buyer. But when he is gone his way then he boasteth.

A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.

People will buy anything that's one to a customer.

What costs nothing is worth nothing.

A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.

Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

A fair price for oil is whatever you can get plus ten to twenty per cent.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods.

Piracy n: commerce without its folly-swaddles - just as God made it.

When you buy use your eyes and your mind not your ears.

Who buys has need of two eyes But one's enough to sell the stuff.

Everyone lives by selling something.