“I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level the transition to digital isn't something I welcome wholeheartedly.” BookSufferingLevelsIndustryPaperSellingWelcomeDigitalTransitionPublishersMany FriendsWholeheartedlyGood Living Author:Barry Eisler
“To a proprietor of a mine, the silver money is a produce with which he buys what he has occasion for. To all those through whose hands this silver afterwards passes, it is only the price of the produce which they themselves have raised by means of their property in land, their capitals, or their industry. In selling them they in the first place exchange them for money, and afterwards they exchange the money for articles of consumption.” FirstsMeanHandsPoliticsEconomyLandProduceMinesIndustryPropertyRaisedSellingOccasionsLiberalismSilverArticlesConsumption Book:Letters to Thomas Robert Malthus on Political Economy and Stagnation of Commerce Source: Letters to Thomas Robert Malthus on Political Economy and Stagnation of Commerce
“The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.” PeopleBookRealityCommunityLeadershipTechnologyGenerationsMediaIndustryEvolutionInternetHappeningsCapitalismStrategyPropertyIndividualitySocial MediaComplainingSellingIdeologyConsumerismFree MarketAmazon Author:Jeff Bezos
“Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.” I CanFiguresIndustrySelling Author:Mark Cuban
“For years, broadcasters didn't get a nickel out of retransmission consent. But broadcast content is what the cable industry was selling to customers.” YearsIndustryCustomersSellingConsentCablesNickelsBroadcasters Author:Gordon Smith
“An industry begins with the customer and his or her needs, not with a patent, a raw material, or a selling skill” NeedsMaterialsIndustrySkillsCustomersSellingPatentsRaw Materials Book:Marketing Myopia Source: Marketing Myopia
“Some people don't want to know that very little progress has been made. It is in the same way that companies are selling their products (i.e. the billion dollar cosmetic industry), they can package the message of femininity and normalization around this disease.” PeopleKnowsWayWantLittlesHas BeensMadeCompanyProgressProductsIndustryDiseaseMessagesDollarsBillionsSellingMade ItFemininityPackagesCosmetics Author:Ravida Din
“Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others.” BigsSecurityIndustryProfitSellingBuyingExpensesBig BusinessStock ExchangeBuying And Selling Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“In our modern society the image and mythic process has been taken over by corporations that directly control advertising and, indirectly, the entertainment industry. Powerful erotic images are used for the sole purpose of selling consumer products; the side effects of this commercialization have a profound impact on the sexual imagination and identity of vast numbers of people.” PeopleHas BeensUsedPurposeProcessSidesImaginationPowerfulNumbersTakenModernEffectsIdentityProductsIndustryImpactProfoundEntertainmentSellingAdvertisingConsumersCorporationsSoleEroticModern SocietyEntertainment IndustrySide EffectsCommercialization Author:Robert Lawlor
“And all of the big shots of the car industry are there, strutting their stuff. And that year, they're feeling especially good because cars were selling more than ever before.” YearsFeelingsBigsStuffCarIndustryShotsSellingBig ShotsStruttingSelling More Author:David Maraniss
“Before the 90s, black metal wasn't a selling tool [and didn't] have money behind it. Then it became a pop sensation. Now that the record industry has collapsed and started to rot, things are livening up a bit again.” BitsBlackBehindsRecordsIndustryToolsPopsSellingSensationsMetalsBlack Metal Author:Mat McNerney
“I had been a fashion photographer for over ten years, but I'd always been dissatisfied with what I was doing. It was all about selling people, and I got disheartened by the whole industry.” PeopleYearsWholeFashionIndustryTenPhotographerSellingDissatisfiedDisheartened Author:Giles Duley
“Turn inward and say to yourself "I'm just gonna do it". That mindset got me to where I am now. I look at the industry like it's a giant mall, and I have a little store - this what I'm selling: I do stand-up, I've got a podcast, and occasionally I act.” LooksLittlesTurnsIndustryMindsetStoresSellingGiantsInwardMalls Author:Bill Burr
“All the carbon copies, the stuff that the industry puts together, it's not selling if you pay attention and look at the charts. The stuff that they put together, these hits that just go out, it doesn't sell. It doesn't have a core fan base of fans that dedicatedly watch their life. It's just a song, another song, another hit song, a one-hit wonder. It doesn't sell. It doesn't last.” IfsLooksTogetherLastsSongStuffPayAttentionWonderWatchesFansIndustrySellsCoreSellingPay AttentionCopiesCarbon Author:Chamillionaire