Arthur Miller Quotes

Learn to sell and you'll never starve

Everybody has a product to sell—no matter whether you’re an employee, a founder, or an investor. It’s true even if your company consists of just you and your computer. Look around. If you don’t see any salespeople, you’re the salesperson.

Everyone lives by selling something.

I'm a pitchman, my business comes from the pitch, nothing else.

We are not saving lives. We are selling dreams.

The world of commerce is a kind of a purgatory itself.

Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business.

A bad salesman will automatically drop his price. Bad salesmen make me sick.

Not long ago, the term 'business model' was not exactly on the tip of everyone's tongue. Then, in the early to mid-1990s, 'business model' became a catchphrase that described how a company makes money or saves money.

I think running a business, doing what I've done for the last - since 1996, has taught me so many things because I started from just an idea and then had to figure out how to make it, market it, every single thing from soup to nuts on how to get a product done and out there.

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with people. You also needed business skills. You knew you needed to sell a certain amount of boxes, so that gave me some business sense.

I'm a horrible business person.

It's very American, making a lot of money.

To me, job titles don't matter. Everyone is in sales. It's the only way we stay in business.

I don't have any interest in being a chef without being on the business side of things, or vice versa, because if you don't make money at the end of the month, you're going out of business.

I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.

I am interested in communicating with the world by selling to many people.

It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or isn't finished.

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

You're either making money or you're not. If you're not making money get out of the business.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

You can make more money selling advice than taking it.

The best way to become wealthy is through trade

Commerce was the best job I could ever have.