Sale Quotes

“In this city [Tingis] the Libyans say that Antaeus is buried; and Sertorius had his tomb dug open, the great size of which made him disbelieve the Barbarians. But when he came upon the body and found it to be sixty cubits long, as they tell us, he was dumbfounded, and after performing a sacrifice filled up the tomb again, and joined in magnifying its traditions and honours. Now, the people of Tingis have a myth that after the death of Antaeus, his wife, Tinga, consorted with Heracles, and that Sophax was the fruit of this union, who became king of the country and named a city which he founded after his mother; also that Sophax had a son, Diodorus, to whom many of the Libyan peoples became subject, since he had a Greek army composed of the Olbians and Mycenaeans who were settled in those parts by Heracles. But this tale must be ascribed to a desire to gratify Juba, of all kings the most devoted to historical enquiry; for his ancestors are said to have been descendants of Sophax and Diodorus. [The Life of Sertorius]”
― Plutarch, Plutarch's Lives

“There is only one way to make money: sell something. You're either selling your time or a product. The secret? Productize your time. That's freedom.”
― Richie Norton

“And what would they find on sale? His sanity? Could be. Half-Price. Smoke and Water Damage. Everything Must Go.”
― Stephen King, It

“At the same distance from it is the city of Sala, situate on a river which bears the same name, a place which stands upon the very verge of the desert, and though infested by troops of elephants, is much more exposed to the attacks of the nation of the Autololes, through whose country lies the road to Mount Atlas, the most fabulous locality even in Africa.

[...] There formerly existed some Commentaries written by Hanno, a Carthaginian general, who was commanded, in the most flourishing times of the Punic state, to explore the sea-coast of Africa. The greater part of the Greek and Roman writers have followed him, and have related, among other fabulous stories, that many cities there were founded by him, of which no remembrance, nor yet the slightest vestige, now exists. [V,1]”
― Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Volume I: Books 1-2

“I came, I saw, I bought!”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“Why miss a SALE at twenty dollars, when people will buy at $19.95? I've found that the opportunity to save that nickel really makes people say YES to buying a NEW duck.”
― Jarod Kintz, Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

“Buying something you do not need is a waste of money, even if it is a bargain.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Marketing is really just about sharing your passion.”
― Michael Hyatt

“People who wait for your service to go on sale are saying they don’t value you. They like you, but they’d like you better if you were more exploitable.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“I just called a How's My Driving phone number. Why did someone in Branson, Missouri pick up and try to sell me a timeshare condo?”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“It is not difficult to find it everywhere in the world that love is on the sale, including the free sex.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Oh, Lor' bless ou , mum,' Azazel answered quickly, 'I am laden with all sorts of gimcracks and gaudy gewgaws, fripperies, filigrees, and fooleries, not to mention frivolities, fancies, and fiddledeedees. I have all kinds of iridescent idiocies, and any number of oddities, ordinary or obsolescent, as well as a fair supply of spangled sillinesses, though I may as well warn you, they're taking those off the market, and I won't be able to get you no spare parts nor replacements, ayup, I also carry, of course, a stock of the commoner baubles and jinglements for those whose tastes lies there. Also gum for the children, those as have them.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn: The Lost Journey

“After shopping the online Black Friday sales, I found that my computer was infested with junk that was making it run really slow.”
― Steven Magee

“Neither wait nor expect such things since love is never on sale.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Sales and marketing alignment is about one shared goal: revenue that is delivered or over-delivered every quarter. There will always be tension, but that tension can be positive if there is a culture of clear expectations and communication.”
― Craig Rosenberg

“Sales is an outcome, not a goal. It’s a function of doing numerous things right, starting from the moment you target a potential prospect until you finalize the deal.”
― Jill Konrath

“As marketing converges with customer service and sales, marketing today is more about helping and less about hyping.”
― Joel Book

“If an opportunity isn't effectively qualified, the sales rep will operate under the mistaken impression that the deal is theirs to win.”
― Dave Stein

“What differentiates sellers today is their ability to bring fresh ideas.”
― Jill Konrath

“To build a long-term, successful enterprise, when you don't close a sale, open a relationship.”
― Patricia Fripp

“Marketers need to build digital relationships and reputation before closing a sale.”
― Chris Brogan

“Behind every sale there is a smile.”
― Sijin Bt

“Retailing is the art of making habits and the business of maintaining habits.”
― Sijin Bt

“They sell the family parrot to town gossips.”
― -ipi(human_bot)

“We reduce the price of a product when we lack the skills, money, or patience to greatly increase the number of people who know about the product.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Sell yourself, else another person will steal and sell you at a heavy cost.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, The Event Usher’s Handbook

“You are maybe able to force my body to sale, for any purpose. However, you cannot win my thoughts without love and my consent.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Once you put yourself on the sale rack, it’s hard to go back to full price.”
― Tunde Oyeneyin, Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

“What society teaches people is not to guard themselves like precious gold that must not be stolen, but rather to make them forget that they themselves are valuable gold—encouraging them to scatter this gem within outwardly. If one pays attention to those who have internalized and ritualized the selling of their soul, it becomes clear: they possess dozens of interests and pursuits, paint colorful pictures, and write rich texts, yet remain inwardly colorless and utterly empty.”
― Sov8840

“Every kind of passion is being transformed into a form of industry. Every passion is monetized or at least expected to be. This can be observed in schools, shows, articles, conferences, films, advertisements, and even within the primitive instincts of humans: the relentless conversion of passion into profession, the monetization of personal emotions and thoughts. This message is constantly propagated, taught, and encouraged by all of these forces. More than that, it is what people dream of—because they all embody identities scripted by singular capitalist narratives. And this constitutes the greatest insult to one’s inner world.”
― Sov8840