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You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
You don’t make money when you buy stocks. And you don’t make money when you sell stocks. You make money by waiting.
A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well.
Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.
People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.
If you don't do what Fear says...you'll go ahead and speak up, you'll sign up, you'll buy, you'll sell, you'll jump.
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
I mean, when we put out our first album, it was 'Gosh, we really hope it sells 100,000 copies. That was the innocence.
There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1. sex sells; 2. if it bleeds it leads.
I've had ideas for romantic comedies, but it would be a much more darkly comic version than what usually sells tickets.
The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.
I'm not out there picking out every single item that we sell, and also we don't even make every single item that we sell.
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
Most of the manufacturers they tend to design things to sell they are more interested in the money side than anything else.
Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make.
I'd literally rather hang out at the T.G.I. Friday's in New Jersey than tool around at a place that sells $40 cheeseburgers.
Finding a store that sells synthetic hair in Kigali is easier than locating a Starbucks in New York City without Google Maps.
There's certain types of music where the artist sells the song - where it doesn't really matter what's going on with the song.
The British brand is so popular particularly in the US that they put the union jack flag on top of beer bottles because it sells.
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
There is a real sense of loss when a family sells a business they've spent generations building. I wanted to get some of that back.
The power of Bollywood is undeniable. When a celebrity wears your clothes, it sells out - stars here can make you a household name.
Whatever I do, whether it sells or not, at least I mean it at the time and I'm honest about it. Which I think is the only way to be.
I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.
I've never wanted to be a person where somebody would be like, 'I like her; she's okay.' Love or hate is fine, because it sells tickets.
Every time one of my books sells a million copies in paperback, Pan Macmillan gives me a gold statuette of Pan. I have about 20 of them.
I believe there are two kinds of journalists. One who sells a story by being creative, and one who sells a story by being sensationalist.
All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
Time is the ultimate long tail. Even with a big wad of money up front, if something sells forever, the back end is what ultimately counts.
Negativity sells. I have been labelled a rebel. If I had been one, would I have got married at 23? Would I have been a straight A student?
Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to L.A. And I thought, "I want to sell out!"
Wilder is not a big draw in the U.S. He maybe sells 5,000 to 10,000 tickets when he's fighting in his own town for the heavyweight champion.
To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.
Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn't mean that you can't do something else and also make it sell.
What does it mean to a person whose identity is very wrapped up in the music she makes, if her worth is measured by how many records she sells?
Only conviction sells. Well, when we are insecure, we really don't have that 100 percent conviction. Once we have it, we can tide over everything.
Some families sell their stocks off a little bit at a time to live high, and then - boom - somebody takes them over, and it all goes down the drain.
My dad is a sculptor and a painter, and mum runs an art gallery, which sells beautiful jewelry and ceramics and paintings - local and international.
Nobody sells books like J.K. Rowling. We have a rule in publishing: Never compare anything to 'Harry Potter' because it's like lightning in a bottle.
The Christmas market at the Barcelona Cathedral sells all kinds of things for your Nativity scene. It will also give you a good idea of Catalan culture.
If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.
If one artist sells five million albums, the tendency is for other artists to say, 'Maybe I should do a little of that, too.' That can be tough to resist.
You've got these guys that have this fresh, street, hip-hop country that sells a zillion. Keep doing that. I'll keep doing my stuff. We'll see how it goes.
Everyone loves good looks, but personality is what sells for me. I want someone to have fun and go on adventures with. I do like guys with tattoos, though.
There's no white comic that sells tickets to black people like me. They're going to get their hair done, get a new outfit, and come out to see a white dude.
Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain!
I think great music sells records, and I also think, do you want to be a reality star, or someone that actually has credibility? Because you can't have both.
I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless.
The hours Facebook users put into their profiles and lists and updates is the labor that Facebook then sells to the market researchers and advertisers it serves.
The MC that we love are usually the ones that we consider be kinda heartless, like 50 Cent. That's pretty much the prowess and power of an MC. That's what sells.