“There is a rampant tendency in any industry where someone is trying to sell something with a bunch of data, where they cherry pick a little bit... bias a little bit. This becomes quite easy when there is an enormous amount of data to cherry pick from.” TryingLittlesEasyBitsIndustryAmountLittle BitPicksSellsEnormousBunchTendenciesDataBiasCherries Author:Burt Rutan
“Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.” WorldKindDifferentFashionIndustryPercentSellsAdvertisingBrandsDifferent WorldsFashion IndustryJaggerCelebs Author:Christian Audigier
“What keeps this industry alive is creators doing their own work. Once you change a costume or origin enough times, it's a dead body - you're just electrocuting it and keeping it sort of shambling on. There is a lot more creator-owned stuff now, and some of it I look at and go, 'Oh, that's his pitch for a TV show. That's his pitch for a movie. That's him saying oh, this kind of thing sells.' I didn't do that.” LooksKindBookEnoughShowsBodyStuffAliveTvsIndustrySellsCreatorComicComic BookTv ShowsCostumesEnough Time Author:Mike Mignola
“One of the things that I have seen change that warms the cockles of my heart is what is happening in the cosmetics industry. For years, they were doing horrible things to animals in the manufacture of cosmetics, and testing of the most barbaric types; today, if you go into a drugstore and go down the [cosmetics] aisle, look at how many of them say no animal testing. I've talked with people who work in the cosmetics departments, and they tell me, Without that, you can't sell them. And that's wonderful!” PeopleIfsYearsLooksHeartTodayAnimalWonderfulTypeIndustryMy HeartHappeningsSellsHorribleDepartmentTestingCosmeticsAisleHorrible ThingsBarbaricAnimal TestingCockles Author:Bob Barker
“Want me to sell my soul, just so I can go gold. You can have the cars, clothes the jewerlies, the houses and hos. Cats do anything for a little bit of fame and a little bit of change. Industry snakes, they ain't friendly. Thought she loved me, she just tricked me.” WantLittlesI CanSoulHouseBitsCarIndustryFameLittle BitClothesCatGoldSellsMy SoulFriendlyWant MeSnakes Author:Bow Wow
“Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?” LooksIdeasHelpingMovingAsksIndustryWindowSellsCopiesNew IdeasMicrosoftEvaluate Author:Bill Gates
“I just think you've created an industry now, where you create the situation where very much you've created an incentive for people not just to look forward to having more abortions but being able to sell that fetal tissue for purposes - these centers - for purposes of making a profit off of it, as you've seen in some of these Planned Parenthood affiliates.” PeopleThinkingLooksAblePurposeSituationIndustrySellsProfitAbortionParenthoodIncentivesTissuesPlanned Parenthood Author:Marco Rubio
“I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!” KnowsNeedsYearsWellsTwoWantedJobsReadingStuffFieldsHugeIndustryTradeSellsPressesLeavingBritishListsSettingSettingsReleaseAgentsAgencyEditorsClientsJournalNew AgePress Release Author:Charles Stross
“The movie industry places such importance on first-week numbers-which means what to people, I don't know. It's very strange. They hope to sell tons of records the first week, and then what?” PeopleKnowsFirstsMeanNumbersRecordsWeekStrangeIndustryImportanceSellsMovie Industry Author:Brendan Benson
“And [we hope to sell] the clean fuels to other airlines. I mean, the exciting thing about the breakthrough with clean fuels for the airline industry is there's only 1,700 pumps in the world that fill up the airlines.” WorldMeanIndustryExcitingSellsCleanFuelBreakthroughAirlinePumpsExciting ThingsAirline Industry Author:Richard Branson
“You cannot just depend on the market, because the market will say: China needs oil; China needs coal; China needs whatever, and Africa has got all these things in abundance. And we go there and get them, and the more we develop the Chinese economy, the larger the manufacturing is, the more we need global markets - sell it to the Africans which indeed might very well destroy whatever infant industries are trying to develop on the continent. That is what the market would do.” NeedsTryingWellsMightEconomyDependsIndustrySellsChinaOilChineseAbundanceContinentsCoalInfantManufacturing Author:Thabo Mbeki
“The gambling industry has a tendency to find public figures ... and these persons are used for their public image. These people generally come in for a couple of years and then they sell out and it's 100 percent owned by out-of-state interests” PeopleYearsPersonsStatesUsedInterestFiguresIndustryCouplePercentSellsTendenciesGamblingPublic FiguresPublic Image Author:John Warren Kindt
“I wrote [Collateral Beauty] on my own. I didn't get paid to write it. I didn't sell it as a pitch. It was an idea I had that I really, really felt needed to be in script form before showing it to anyone in the industry because of the uniqueness of the idea, and the weirdness of the idea, to be frank.” WritingIdeasFormFeltMy OwnIndustryNeededPaidSellsScriptsFrankUniquenessWeirdnessCollateral Author:Allan Loeb
“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