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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
We have been successful in buying and selling companies because we have a reputation of fulfilling deal terms in letter and spirit.
I worked on 'Boone' for five years. I tried to find money for it. I couldn't. I ended up selling my house to finance it personally.
If I fought like I was looking for a place in history, it would ruin me as a person. I don't think history is worth selling my soul.
Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.
As a baseball player, you know the commodity you're selling, but with acting, you wonder, 'What the hell am I doing that is so hot?'
When you sell a prospecting concession, you're only selling potential. You pay tolls for the right to invest and look for something.
Banks and investors don't usually view a high-ranking executive in the company selling off massive amounts of stock as a good thing.
Costco pays their workers good wages with benefits while selling good products at competitive prices and remaining quite profitable.
Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered.
Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.
We should be about more than just selling chicken: we should be a part of our customers' lives and the communities in which we serve.
I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.
A store in Houston is selling Donald Trump piñatas filled with candy. So finally something good is going to come out of Donald Trump.
Brand loyalty starts in the cradle and ends in the grave, as I wrote in my first book, 'Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers.'
I think the global markets will probably be selling off with a [Donald] Trump presidency because he has promised to re-do trade deals.
'American Idol' is a machine. It's a machine that's making a lot of money, that's selling a lot of product. It's 'American Marketing.'
I was an eBay addict before my first album hit big. I wanted to go on this tour of the world, so I started selling everything on eBay.
If we are encouraging kids to go into academies, then presumably we are selling them the dream that they can play first-team football.
The music business is the most childish business in the world. Nobody knows what they're selling or why, but they sell it if it works.
This is how people are going to listen to music now - streaming. So diversify as a band. It doesn't mean selling your songs to adverts.
I was a caddy. I also worked as a bouncer, selling Christmas trees at Frank's Nursery and before that, selling what they normally sell.
Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.
Selling is a person-to-person business. You cannot send the sales manual out to make the sale. Sales manuals have no legs and no voice.
In the early 19th century, they tried selling soap as healthy. No one bought it. They tried selling it as sexy, and everyone bought it.
Punishment for putting patients at risk ought to reflect the gravity of manufacturing, distributing or selling counterfeit medications.
It turns out that Donald Trump has been very good at buying low and selling high, and it helps account for his amazing business success.
[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.
The touring business is obviously critical to selling records, building fan bases, selling T-shirts, fulfilling sponsorship commitments.
Selling MP3s or physical copies, it's still cool, but I think it's slowly becoming outdated to where people just want to build a culture.
I'm coming from the notion that acting is an art. It is not a business. It is about building characters, not about selling personalities.
Advertising gets such a bashing from the world. At parties you are always asked, 'Aren't you just selling people things they don't want?'
I went and worked at a TV station in Stillwater. I was actually account manager for commercial accounts, selling ad space and everything.
When billionaire car dealers or manufacturers pay for ambassadorships, at least they pay with money earned by selling something of value.
Walmart markets its gun department as 'sports and outdoors,' but let us get one thing straight: They are not just selling hunting rifles.
The activists play the balance sheet by selling a division to buy back stock and leveraging the balance sheet and buying back more stock.
Houdini used to pull rabbits out of a hat, but he never tried to make a living out of selling them when he had pulled them out of the hat
Selling records is fantastic. But if you're not loving what you do, and if everybody is throwing knives at you, it can get old very fast.
I've noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I'm not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.
Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers.
Electro is today's disco - making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharing it and touring around the world D.J.-ing.
I will always choose the dollar bill carrying a wildly fluctuating discount rather than the dollar bill selling for a quite stable premium.
I am not against remakes. They help in selling a film or creating a buzz around it. But it's my personal choice to stick to original music.
Street art belongs on the street. But I'm a working street artist and I earn my money selling art in the style of street art via galleries.
I just figured out hustles to get by, like maybe selling my clothes. I wanted to travel around and be broke and live in sketchy apartments.
When I started selling air conditioners early on, customers were willing to pay an extra 200 yuan to buy from Suning. Why? Service was good.
From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door.
My parents owned a plants nursery. We all grew up growing things and planting things and selling things, and I also managed landscape crews.
Selling a film option and getting a studio on board can be a slow process, and until things are official, you never want to spill the beans.
None of my heroes were big rock stars, and I thought, 'This isn't how it's meant to be.' It wasn't about making music so much as selling it.