“Part of ego is displaying the ego. I've got ego, and I think I'm really good. But maybe I fall down in trying to sell it to people.” PeopleThinkingTryingFallEgoSellsFalling Down Author:Edward Ruscha
“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
“Grow up. Get a life. Life is pain. Anybody who tells you something other than that is trying to sell you something.” InspirationalTryingPainLife IsGrowsGrowing UpBuddhismSellsLife Is Pain Author:Frederick Lenz
“Most people can learn a lot more than they think they can. They sell themselves short without trying.” PeopleThinkingTryingSells Author:Elon Musk
“Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.” PeopleTryingStyleClaimsSellsPaintAgentsCopiesRepresentativesPublishersExclusivePlagiarism Author:LeRoy Neiman
“I hate it when people call themselves 'entrepreneurs' when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell of go public, so they can cash in and move on. They're unwilling to do the work it takes to build a real company, which is the hardest work in business.” PeopleTryingRealMovingHateCompanyI HateSellsEntrepreneurHardestWorking ItCashUnwilling Author:Steve Jobs
“As an emerging photojournalist in the early 70s, my focus was on trying to create stories for magazines to the exclusion of almost everything else. I wish someone had told me then that the most personally important pictures you’ll ever make are those about you and your life. I’m glad I had the chance to work for some great magazines, but I really miss those little everyday images, the ones that take place in and around your own life, which will never make the news. Don’t sell yourself short: photograph your own life, not just everyone else’s.” TryingLittlesImportantStoriesWishChanceFocusMissingNewsSellsEverydayPhotographGladMagazinesEmergingExclusionPhotojournalistsYourself Short Author:David Burnett
“Recorded music has always been in a sense promotion for live performance, and some artists have discovered that giving it away is as effective as trying to sell it.” GivingTryingArtistPerformancesSellsPromotionLive PerformanceRecorded Music Author:Todd Rundgren
“I needed to get to know myself and really, really explore music without any pressure to sell it. I wanted to try and not restrain myself at all, so I've been trying to move quite freely between different sounds and genres.” KnowsTryingDifferentWantedMovingSoundNeededPressureSellsGenre Author:Tove Styrke
“We millennials have been advertised to our entire lives, and we can tell when somebody is just trying to sell us something. I think church is the last place I want to go to be sold another product.” ThinkingWantTryingHas BeensLastsChurchProductsSellsMillennialsLast Place Author:Rachel Held Evans
“You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're going to sell it.” TryingTechnologyFiguresSellsCustomersBackwardsCustomer Experience Author:Steve Jobs
“There are words that work, that are meant to explain and educate on policies that work, on products that work, on services that work. I'm not going to ever try to sell a lemon. I don't do that.” TryingPolicyProductsSellsEducateLemons Author:Frank Luntz