“I always write and create. I'm never not creating. I'm always creating a show, every year, whether it gets picked up or not. I always sell a pilot or an idea. I like to be in control.” WritingYearsIdeasShowsCreatingSellsPilots Author:Nick Swardson
“The company that employed me strived only to serve up the cheapest fare that the customer would tolerate, churn it out as fast as possible, and charge as much as they could get away with. If it were possible to do so, the company would sell what all businesses of its kind dream about selling, creating that which all of our efforts were tacitly supposed to achieve: the ultimate product -- Nothing. And for this product they would command the ultimate price -- Everything.” IfsKindDreamEffortCompanyAchieveProductsCreatingUltimateSellsCustomersSellingCommandGet AwayTolerateEmployed Author:Thomas Ligotti
“Creating music to fit the marketplace, so that music can be heard? If ever I thought that I even came close to catering to the marketplace, or designing my productions and my music to cater to what is currently fashionable, I would sell shoes for a living. For me, the marketplace can rot in hell. I will do music for the love of music and for the love of people who listen to music, and absolutely nothing else will drive me.” PeopleIfsHellHeardDesignFitCreatingSellsShoesProductionsListening To MusicMarketplaceFashionableAbsolutely NothingMusic LoveCateringCreating Music Author:Daniel Lanois
“Every artist should live by these words: Never feel bad about successfully selling your creations. Never feel bad about creating art you can't sell.” FeelsShouldArtArtistCreationCreatingSellsSellingLive ByCreating Art Book:Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out Source: Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out
“Corporations don't create jobs, customers do. So when all the economic gains go to the top, as they're doing now, the vast majority of Americans don't have enough purchasing power to buy the things corporations want to sell - which means businesses stop creating enough jobs.” WantMeanEnoughJobsEconomicCreatingGainsMajoritySellsCustomersCorporationsPurchasingPurchasing Power Author:Robert Reich
“I'm not interested in the ego trip of creating or not creating. I'm interested in selling a magazine. Rock-bottom, I sell magazines. I'm a thorough professional who does his job.” DoeJobsRocksEgoCreatingSellsBottomSellingMagazinesNot InterestedThoroughEgo Trip Author:Jack Kirby
“Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business. There are few winners, and lots and lots of losers.” TryingWellsArtBookBeautifulFilmCreatingSellsWinnerEtcLoserLiberatingMovie BusinessArt MusicCreating Art Author:Ronnie Apteker
“Donald Trump is a world-class con artist. He conned all these people that signed up for Trump University. Now he's trying to do the same thing to Republican voters. He's trying to convince them that somehow he's the guy that is going to stand up to illegal immigration, but he hires illegal immigrants, that he's fighting for American workers, but he's hiring foreign workers for his hotels, that he's going to bring back jobs from China and from Mexico, but, in fact, he's creating jobs in China and Mexico, because that's where all of his suits and ties that he sells are made.” PeopleWorldTryingMadeFactsJobsArtistGuyFightingClassTrumpRepublicanCreatingSellsWorkersUniversityChinaImmigrationSuitsTiesConvinceHotelImmigrantsIllegalVotersMexicoHiringIllegal ImmigrantsIllegal ImmigrationWorld ClassAmerican WorkersCreating JobsCon ArtistSuits And Ties Author:Marco Rubio