#selling

's one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#embarrassed #happy #i #selling #success

Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them. ↗

— Bill Gates

#because #buying #card #comes #credit

There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#always #brutality #european #haunted #heard

Google's thing is not advertising because it's not a romanticizing operation. It doesn't involve expression. It's a link. What they're doing is selling access. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#advertising #because #doing #expression #google

I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that. ↗

— Arthur Levitt

#companies #enron #failures #i #i think

All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent of the normal market prices and people are going to be tricked into providing their credit card numbers. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#card #credit #credit card #going #into

Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!' ↗

— Carey Mulligan

#bar #both #buy #carpet #come

Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#get #job #learn #lot #merchandise

Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in. ↗

— River Phoenix

#commercials #i #just #like #me

In advertising, sex sells. But only if you're selling sex. ↗

— Jef I. Richards

#only #selling #sells #sex #you