#selling

Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem... ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress. ↗

— Daniel Starch

#agency #competition #distribution #economic #fair

The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print. ↗

— Daniel Starch

#critical #definition #examination #in print #meet

For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story. ↗

— George Stephen

#before #had #i #idea #much

Many kids turn to selling drugs. It's not a good career choice, but they see it as a way to get money. ↗

— Richard Harris

#career choice #choice #get #good #kids

It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked. ↗

— Carolyn McCarthy

#allowed #asked #board #children #common

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written. (Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935) ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#expectations #honesty #integrity #on-writing #pandering

Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is. ↗

— Bono

#money #out #really #selling #something

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

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#because #cheapest #economic #factor #goods