“I've been part of really big things that are amazing, but I haven't taken on that responsibility yet. So I don't want to sell myself short by having a kid and then regret not doing what I set out to do.” WantBigsKidsResponsibilityTakenHavensRegretSellsBig Things Author:Michelle Rodriguez
“When you write a piece of software you assume a certain type of hardware. If you assume hardware that's too powerful then you can't sell many copies cause very few people have that machine. If you assume hardware that's too simple your product can't do as much.” PeopleIfsWritingCertainCausesSimplePowerfulPiecesProductsTypeMachinesSellsAssumingCopiesSoftwareHardware Author:Bill Gates
“Good developers like seeing their products sell in large quantities. They enjoy the competition of doing a better job than the other company, especially if the other company has more people on the project and they're entrenched and people are saying that we don't have a chance of getting in there and... and doing well.” PeopleIfsWellsJobsEnjoyChanceCompanySeeingProductsProjectsSellsCompetitionQuantityBetter JobsDevelopers Author:Bill Gates
“Sometimes you believe that you are targeting a 25-35-year-old young woman and you see that there is a crowd of 78-year-old people who are coming to buy some underwear, so it's not exactly the same kind of underwear that you have to sell.” PeopleYearsBelieveKindSometimesYoungSellsCrowdsYoung WomenOld PeopleUnderwear Author:Maurice Levy
“It's hard to sell records when you can get it for free everywhere.” HardRecordsSells Author:Jason Wade
“Don't sell out who you really are to make others happy.” SellsMake Others Happy Author:Jo Dee Messina
“I never thought in a million years that I'd ever sell out back-to-back shows at The Garden. That's not to say, I never expected my career to take off. Still, it was a "Pinch Me, Wake Me Up" moment. I was like, "Wow! I can't believe this. That I'm actually here, and this is actually happening." And in that moment, when I was about to thank my fans for supporting me, I noticed that they were standing up clapping. It was overwhelming, and became a very emotional moment when I tried to thank them.” YearsBelieveStillsI CanMomentsShowsCareersMillionsFansEmotionalHappeningsGardenStandingSellsExpectedThat MomentOverwhelmingWowClapping Author:Kevin Hart
“The world we live in pictures a pie with only so many pieces, and if other people have more you have less, and you have to compete with other people in order to try to get ahead. You have to sell yourself at every available opportunity. The shift, the enlightened shift, has to do with a movement from competition to collaboration, from sales to service, from ambition to inspiration, and to a belief in scarcity to a belief in abundance as an eternal spiritual quality.” PeopleIfsWorldTryingInspirationSpiritualOrderOpportunityBeliefQualityPiecesMovementAmbitionEternalSellsCompetitionAvailableAbundanceEnlightenedCollaborationPieScarcityGet Ahead Author:Marianne Williamson
“I think that the song, the song "Stand By Me" is one of those songs that... and someone asked me, what was you thinking about or what was you feeling about? It's something that, songwriters just write songs. It's like an artist that paints. They paint what they feel. It's not, it's not about how many of these painting I'll sell it's just how they feel at the moment. And that's how I wrote "Stand By Me".” ThinkingFeelsWritingMomentsFeelingsArtistSongPaintingSellsPaintSongwritersStand By Me Author:Ben E. King
“I live in a Spanish-style hillside home in Los Angeles, California. I paid $900,000 in 1995. It's perhaps worth about $3m now. Thankfully, I paid off my mortgage before the crash because I could see it coming. I worried that I would be caught having to pay off a very high mortgage for a house I couldn't sell.” HomeWould BeHousePayStylePaidSellsCaughtWorriedCaliforniaLos AngelesCrashMortgagePaid Off Author:Eric Idle
“I have much more power and protection than Salman Rushdie, because I'm an American citizen, but yes, I live in terrible fear for my life and for the lives of my children. My whole family has been threatened, my adoptive parents had to sell their house and move out of Washington, D.C. because of death threats caused by my work and activism.” ChildrenHas BeensWholeMovingHouseParentCitizensTerribleSellsThreatProtectionActivismMy ChildrenThreatenedAmerican CitizensWhole FamilyRushdieAdoptive Parents Author:Kola Boof
“So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.” PeopleKnowsMayValuesWealthBusinessRichPerspectiveSellsProsperityUnfoldingSelling OutRewarding ExperiencesLife Unfolding Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs
“We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.” PeopleThinkingWantedGroupsDesignJudgingResearchBuiltSellsBest ThingsMacsBest JobMarket ResearchInventing Things Author:Steve Jobs
“There's not a lot of precedent for weird, bald musicians in the Lower East Side making records in their bedrooms and going on to sell a lot of copies of the record. Especially if you look at the pop climate.” IfsLooksSidesRecordsMusicianSellsClimatePopsEastCopiesBedroomPrecedentEast Side Author:Moby
“Where I live, if I put solar panels on my roof I'm not allowed to sell that energy back to the grid. I can't change that restriction myself. I need our local decision-makers to fix that.” IfsNeedsI CanEnergyDecisionSellsLocalsMakersRoofRestrictionCan't ChangeGridsDecision MakersSolar Panels Author:Katharine Hayhoe
“The fact remains that books that really put gay people in the center, and especially books that do so in a way that is sexually explicit, tend not to get a great deal of mainstream attention: they don't tend to sell well, and they don't tend to win major awards. This makes the occasional exception, like Alan Hollinghurst, all the more remarkable.” PeopleWayWellsBookFactsWinningDealsAttentionGayMajorsRemainsSellsRemarkableExceptionAwardsMainstreamOccasionalSexuallyGay PeopleExplicit Author:Garth Greenwell
“It wasn't that people wanted things for free and asked for advertising to fund it - it's that these companies wanted to amass an audience whose "eyeballs" they could sell, and they gave people things for free to do that. Free services and content has been foisted upon us because there wasn't the will power to explore other options.” PeopleHas BeensWantedCompanyAudienceSellsAdvertisingFundWill PowerEyeballs Author:Astra Taylor
“I kept writing short stories and sending out my manuscript, and it kept coming back like a bad penny. It was rejected all over town, quite often in very complimentary terms, but rejected nonetheless. Agents would return it saying that they loved it but didn't think they could sell it, or they would ask if I could change the collection into linked stories.” IfsThinkingWritingStoriesAsksTermReturnTownsSellsAgentsIf I CouldCollectionsShort StoryRejectedLinkedComing BackPenniesManuscriptsWriting ShortWriting Short Stories Author:Debra Dean
“I want to win some awards, sell more records - just do whatever I want.” WantWinningRecordsSellsAwards Author:Big Sean
“An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made.” WellsMadeDreamCompanySellsEntrepreneurProfitEntrepreneurshipInvestors Author:Daymond John
“One of the things that has happened is that our drug laws have been institutionalized now. If you want to say that somebody's a bad person in a movie or in a television show or something about that, you say they sell drugs or they use drugs.” IfsWantPersonsHas BeensUseShowsLawHappenedTelevisionDrugSellsTelevision ShowsDrug Laws Author:Carl Hart
“When I put out the records, when I make a distribution deal, those distributors tell me who they sell it to and how many copies. So I want nothing less.” WantDealsRecordsSellsCopiesDistributionDistributors Author:Gail Zappa
“I've got huge tubs full of stuff that I can sell on eBay. If there are people out there that are interested, I want them to come my way and buy my jackets and hats and scripts that are signed by everybody.” PeopleIfsWayWantI CanStuffHugeSellsScriptsMy WayHatsJacketsTubsEbay Author:Gillian Anderson
“I've got huge tubs full of X-Files memorobilia that I can sell on eBay.” I CanHugeSellsFilesTubsX FilesEbay Author:David Duchovny
“You know how some people will say to writers, "Why don't you just write a romance novel that sells a bunch of copies and then you'll have the money to do the kind of writing you want to do"? I always say that I don't have the skills or knowledge to do that. It would be just as hard for me to do that kind of writing as it would be to learn how to do any number of productive careers that I can't manage to make myself do.” PeopleKnowsWantWritingKindI CanHardWould BeRomanceNumbersCareersNovelKnow HowSkillsSellsBunchManageProductiveCopiesRomance Novel Author:Lucy Corin
“As a consumer of culture, I like a wide range of emotions to be touched in art. It's funny but on the other side of it, I do feel that people that are trying to sell culture would like to see a narrower range of expression from their content-makers. Easier to sell I guess.” PeopleFeelsTryingArtCultureSidesEmotionExpressionEasierSellsWideConsumersRangeTouchedMakersRange Of Emotions Author:Erin McKeown
“The New York Times and Politico report , as Bush continues to flounder on the campaign trail, backers are placing some of the blame on Right To Rise and its inability to sell their candidate.” New YorkBlameSellsCampaignsCandidatesReportsTrailsInabilityNew York Times Author:Chris Hayes
“The modern media environment is so overrun with bullshit and static and people trying to sell you stupid crap. It makes you want to bite yourself.” PeopleWantTryingEnvironmentModernMediaStupidSellsBitesBullshitCrapStaticModern Media Author:Brad Listi
“The Hollywood executives are, like, ‘We’re not racist, we just have to pretend to be racists because we’re capitalists. We want to sell our movies in China (and) they don’t like Kevin Hart.’” WantHollywoodSellsChinaRacistExecutivesCapitalistKevinHart Author:Bill Maher
“When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection into a pitch for a novel and sell it to your publisher.” SaidBookTurnsNovelNew YorkMinesSellsCollectionsChaptersColleaguesPublishersNotableNew York Times Author:Julianna Baggott
“I was just worried that someone was gonna think that I had been commissioned by Jamba Juice to make cartoons about Jamba Juice. And the big thing for me was - if I'm not getting paid to sell out, I don't want people to think that I'm selling out.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantBigsPaidSellsSellingWorriedCartoonBig ThingsJuiceSelling Out Author:David Rees
“Horror films had died a little bit before Scream came around. That was one of the reasons I wrote it. I wanted to write something that wasn't being made right now and maybe sell if I come up with a new horror film. Because no one is watching those movies. Let's do it. That was my whole goal, and it paid off. I feel like it's never stopped.” IfsFeelsWritingLittlesMadeReasonWholeWantedFilmBitsGoalHorrorRight NowLittle BitDiedPaidSellsCome UpScreamHorror FilmPaid Off Author:Kevin D. Williamson
“When I was on the big labels, I never calculated what would make me sell more records. I just did what I did -no different than when I wrote songs for myself in high-school.” DifferentBigsSchoolSongRecordsHigh SchoolSellsLabels Author:Jill Sobule
“I believe that working independently will give artists the ability to communicate the full extent of their art and not just a piece of it that might sell.” GivingBelieveArtMightArtistI BelieveAbilityPiecesSellsCommunicateAbility To Communicate Author:Tom DeLonge
“Never compromise and sell yourself short. I've been in the music business, a girl group . . . I've been through so many different things in my career, and when you compromise and try to let go of who you are, you wind up being unhappy, and what is success without happiness. You have to have both, and that is important to me.” TryingImportantDifferentGirlCareersGroupsWindLetting GoSellsWho You AreUnhappyCompromiseDifferent ThingsMusic BusinessBeing UnhappyNever CompromiseYourself ShortGirl Groups Author:Naturi Naughton
“If India is an emerging economy with millions of new consumers, sell them the Volvo. Sell them the Cielo car. Sell them whatever you can, hamburgers and KFCs. ItÂ’s the middle classes who have moved into being able to own a car, a refrigerator. For them there is this mantra that the General Electric refrigerator is better than some other model, that the Cielo car is fancier than the Ambassador.” IfsAbleClassMillionsEconomyMiddleCarModelsIndiaSellsMovedConsumersMiddle ClassElectricEmergingMantrasAmbassadorsRefrigeratorsHamburgersKfcVolvoGeneral ElectricEmerging Economies Author:Vandana Shiva
“A lot of artists have been persuaded into doing whatever they can do to gain attention. The media, of course, will position and promote the worst of them to the front page. The sidewalk to crime becomes the marketing campaign. These artists have seen it work and sell millions and millions of records for other artists.” Has BeensArtistCoursesCan DoAttentionMillionsRecordsWorstMediaFrontsCrimePositionPagesGainsSellsMarketingCampaignsSidewalkMarketing Campaigns Author:Chuck D
“I think that the feel that maybe China is slowing down means it will be buying less from Africa and Latin America. That means Procter & Gamble and Coca-Cola will sell less in Latin America and Africa. And so it is definitely related.” ThinkingFeelsMeanAmericaSellsChinaRelatedBuyingLatinSlow DownGambleLatin AmericaSlowingCoca Cola Author:David Wessel
“Things get better when Joy hears about a televised way to sell products and makes a connection with QVC. She convinces an executive there, played by Bradley Cooper, to let her appear as herself.” WayJoyProductsConnectionsSellsGet BetterConvinceExecutives Author:Kenneth Turan
“My mom used to sell fabric and lace when I was younger. She would bring back these elaborate fabrics from Nigeria. I always enjoyed being around it. However, it wasn't until I started making music that I started taking a vested interest.” UsedInterestMomSellsMy MomEnjoyedFabricNigeriaLaceVested Interests Author:Tinie Tempah
“A lot of people live in a property that will one day be part of their pension, and that is true for me too. I have an investment I can sell with ease.” PeopleI CanOne DaySellsPropertyInvestmentEasePension Author:Anthea Turner
“Every artist obviously wants to sell a million records and do the MTV cribs thing, but I'm realistic.” WantArtistMillionsRecordsSellsRealisticMtv Author:JD Era
“Over 80% of the poor are people who have small plots of land and grow their own food and they don't grow enough to sell much into the marketplace. So they will be hit hard by the worst in climate. They really get hit hard starting in the 20-year time frame and thereafter.” PeopleYearsHardEnoughGrowsPoorLandWorstSellsClimateStartingPlotMarketplace Author:Bill Gates
“It's the same world, and only separated by what you physically see. Just because you do not see a male sex worker trying to sell himself on the strip or in the casino, doesn't mean he has not participated on the down low.” WorldTryingMeanSexLowsSellsWorkersMalesCasinos Author:Annie Lobert
“Worst music ever sells millions. The worst music with the shittiest lyrics. The fact is that they pay radio stations to put it on the radio, then you've heard it a million times when you're driving from your shitty job to your shitty house. It's indoctrination, it's sad.” FactsJobsHousePayMillionsHeardWorstSellsRadioDrivingStationsIndoctrinationRadio Stations Author:Sia Furler
“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
“I always went in with a very specific idea of the sound I wanted, and once I'd recorded I'd try and make it sell as much as I could, but I only went in thinking of a sound I wanted. So, it's no surprise to me that he got the hit and I didn't. But what I realized was that he did dress it up nicely, and my god, he does sing on key well.” ThinkingTryingWellsDoeIdeasWantedSoundKeysDressesSellsSurpriseI Realized Author:Iggy Pop
“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
“It is great to have direct, unfiltered, interaction with your fans on Twitter and FaceBook, or whatever. I am not totally convinced that it has revolutionized the sales model. Its not completely apparent to me that it is easier to sell music. Obviously, there is a possibility of smaller bands, having their music listened to, but I am not sure to what degree it actually happens. Just because it can happen, doesn't mean it does.” MeanDoeHappensFansPossibilityEasierBandDegreesModelsDirectSellsConvincedNot SureInteractionTwitter And Facebook Author:Chris Cain