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“Awards are always a pleasant surprise. They are the candy-floss parts of our job - a lovely added extra to attract people's attention. The bottom line is that you want to sell tickets.”

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Author:Sophie Thompson

“When I would sell encyclopedias, I would drive down the road looking for a house with a swing set in the back, and I'd say, "Oh, those folks got kids. They need some books." I'd knock on their door and sell them a set of encyclopedias, and those books were from $300 to $600. I'd look around the house, and if there wasn't that much furniture in the house, I felt a little bad about selling a $600 set of books to people who couldn't afford a couch. So I didn't last at that job very long.”

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Author:Willie Nelson

“For a long time, I kept working at part-time jobs... my goal was to build up enough savings so I wouldn't be kicked out on the streets if I didn't sell enough paintings.”

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Author:Janet Fish

“The teacher must herself be excited if she is to sell her goods. And she can do an exciting job in stirring the student without herself knowing all the answers.”

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Author:Julius Sumner Miller

“What I proposed was a computer that would be easy to use, mix text and graphics, and sell for about $1,000. Steve Jobs said that it was a crazy idea, that it would never sell, and we didn't want anything like it. He tried to shoot the project down.”

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Author:Jef Raskin

“If you have one farm worker, typically they create three jobs with higher compensation and higher skills - the people that pack, the people that ship, the people that inspect, the people that sell, that sort of thing.”

People Ifs Jobs Three Higher Skills Sells Workers Ships Farms Packs Compensation

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“If you wanted a safe job, go sell shoes. This is a tough business.”

Ifs Wanted Jobs Safe Tough Sells Shoes

Author:Chuck Hagel

“I write what I want to write. Period. I don't write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don't write suspense novels or thrillers. I write horror. And if no one wants to buy my books, I'll just keep writing them until they do sell--and get a job at Taco Bell in the meantime.”

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Author:Bentley Little

“He [Steve Jobs] had more of the future vision: We can bring this to everyone; we can start a company; we can sell it.”

Jobs Company Vision Sells

Author:Steve Wozniak

“He [Steve Jobs] had come from the surplus electronics parts world.So he came from that world, and he said let's sell PC boards for $40. We'll build them for $20 and sell them for $40.”

World Said Jobs Sells Boards Surplus Electronics

Author:Steve Wozniak

“All I thought about when I wrote my stories was, "I hope that these comic books would sell so I can keep my job and continue to pay the rent." Never in a million years could I have imagined that it would turn into what it has evolved into nowadays. Never.”

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Author:Stan Lee

“I worked a telemarketing job. I always worked those because I always knew how to talk to people and I always knew how to sell because my father was a salesman. He used to sell vacuum cleaners, payroll services to companies, so that was natural for me to go into sales.”

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Author:Kanye West

“Because I'm a performer I can justify and sometimes sell the things about me that offend and shock the conventional world. I need to live life in the fast lane. I need to do things to excess. I need to go over the edge. I have an obligation to experience the things most people can't experience. The taboos. The things you're not supposed to know or do. That's part of my job. That's why I do it. I would probably do it anyway.”

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Book:Actress: Postcards from the Road

Source: Actress: Postcards from the Road

“Parental anxieties: A timeline. Pre-1800s: Potato famine, death of entire villages. 1900s: Trying to keep dad's job through depression so entire family does not starve or have to sell off children to agribusiness. 2000: Infringement of Parenthood on sense of Personhood.”

Trying Children Doe Jobs Dad Anxiety Sells Village Parenthood Potatoes Famine Parental Personhood Timelines Infringement Agribusiness Potato Famine

Author:Sandra Tsing Loh