Understand that you need to sell you and your ideas in order to advance your career, gain more respect, and increase your success, influence and income.
Marketing - Success - Selling
The fact is, everyone is in sales. Whatever area you work in, you do have clients and you do need to sell.
Marketing - Selling
What we do in our group is the opposite of the bad effects of globalization. We produce in Italy and in France and we sell to China, when usually it's the opposite.
Globalization - Bad - Italy - France - China - Selling - Products
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
Customers - Marketing - Selling
At a time when all the other builders were selling homes with basements but without carports, we would sell homes without basements and with carports. This allowed us to provide a more appealing product at a lower price. In other words, we felt we would be giving customers greater value.
Real Estate - Selling - Property - Consumer - Products - Customers
I don't think the market can keep going up. In the U.S., we see real estate not going up.. houses are selling at lower prices. You can't have anything going up 10 percent to 20 percent to 30 percent indefinitely.
America - Selling - Real Estate - Investing - Property
Some people fold after making one timid request. They quit too soon. Keep asking until you find the answers. In sales there are usually four or five "no's" before you get a "yes."
Questions - Quitting - Selling
If you are not moving closer to what you want in sales (or in life), you probably aren't doing enough asking.
Questions - Goals - Selling
I'm not sure I knew what an entrepreneur was when I was ten, but I knew that starting little businesses and trying to sell greeting cards or newspapers door-to-door or just vending machine kind of thing is.. there's just something very intriguing to me about that.
Entrepreneur - Business - Selling
Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.
Real Estate - Selling - Buying - Emotional
Selling your apartment in New York is like dating a manic-depressive.. you get used to cycles of elation and despondency. Every time someone would come to see the apartment, there was the thrill of the date. You want to be presentable, so you clean the place up, make sure it smells good, put on some mood lighting and mellow music.
Real Estate - Selling - America - Emotional
The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.
Customers - Technology
Basically we get confused a bit about what retail is. It is really just buying things, putting them on a floor and selling them.
Selling - Business
Anything we do in advertising is controversial. If it’s provocative and sensual and related to what we’re selling, I'm willing to take the chance. I have fun with the ads.
Advertising - Products - Selling - Fashion - Fun - Controversy - Risk
To understand KKR, I always like to say, don't congratulate us when we buy a company. Any fool can buy a company. Congratulate us when we sell it and when we've done something with it and created real value.
Companies - Buying - Selling - Improvement
Our industry expertise (at KKR) enables the firm not only to make better investment choices but also to win the confidence of senior management and sellers, which has enabled us to purchase many companies on an exclusive basis.Companies - Buying - Selling - Experience - Decisions - Investing - Management - Confidence
If you're a car salesman, and someone says "This is a terrible car, I'm not buying it," it doesn't mean they hate you. They just don't like your product. I think that's a mistake a lot of people in show business make.. they're so tied to their act they take everything personally.
Selling - Products - Criticism - Mistakes
The person that is buying a share of stock is convinced he knows something that the other person who's selling it to him does not know. There's no zero sum game in Wall Street.
Investing - Wall Street - Stocks - Stock Market - Buying - Selling
Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
Obstacles - Success - Selling - Victory - Struggle - Important - Career - Failure
I wasn't running toward the theater but running away from the sporting goods store. Of course now that I'm selling spaghetti sauce (with Newman's Own), I begin to understand the romance of business.. the allure of being the biggest fish in the pond and the juice you get from beating out your competitors.
Career - Selling - Business - Competition
Business is not financial science, it's about trading.. buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.
Business - Finance - Selling -
When somebody buys a stock it's because they think it's going to go up and the person who sold it to them thinks it's going to go down. Somebody's wrong.
Stocks - Buying - Selling
I think selling techniques are basically the same in every country, except there are different cultures that have different methods of negotiating. But real estate is the same, whether it happens to be in Australia or if it happens to be in New York.
Selling - Australia - America - Real Estate - Negotiation
Lots of ambitious work by young artists ends up in a dumpster after its warehouse debut. So an unknown artist's big glass vitrine holding a rotting cow's head covered by maggots and swarms of buzzing flies may be pretty unsellable. Until the artist becomes a star. Then he can sell anything he touches.
Art Collecting - Ambition - Selling
I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell, or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.
Selling - Products - Customers
People get caught up in wonderful, eye-catching pitches, but they don't do enough to close the deal. It's no good if you don't make the sale. Even if your foot is in the door or you bring someone into a conference room, you don't win the deal unless you actually get them to sign on the dotted line.
Selling - Winning
The point to remember about selling things is that, as well as creating atmosphere and excitement around your products, you've got to know what you're selling.
Knowledge - Selling - Products - Marketing
Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such. Steve Jobs didn't really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would change the world.
Computers - Creativity - Selling - Products
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