Promotions are the worst part of making a movie. We are actors and not salesmen. Still, you have to go to so many places to try and sell the movie.
Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term 'entrepreneur' but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it.
Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?
There's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
Negativity sells. I have been labelled a rebel. If I had been one, would I have got married at 23? Would I have been a straight A student?
I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?
If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office.
I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date.
I started writing my own plays, and I would sell out, but after everything was said and done, I'd break even. That's being successful.
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.
€7,500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff.
I can't immediately get all this coverage when my record comes out. The way I sell gold and platinum records is by being on the road.
You get a lot of apps and companies that are trying to sell you on something that's totally useless or potentially unhealthy. Only occasionally does something really worthwhile really come out.
A personal brand is relevant to people who sell or create something relevant to who they are as a person. If you're not in that boat, which most people are not, personal branding makes no sense.
If the networks can get audiences to tolerate pop-up promos by the dozens, maybe they'll start selling pop-up commercials, too.
Owned technologies are easy to grasp because they're so prevalent. They're technologies that are developed and shaped by a defined group, usually someone selling it.
I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.
I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.
I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.
They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion.
