Idea Selling Quotes

With the policymaking process, you have an idea, and you try to sell other stakeholders on the idea. That's not much different than in business, where you're trying to find capital to make your idea a reality.

People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.

The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.

If you hear my idea and dont believe it , thats not your fault its mine.

The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas.

We are all salesmen every day of our lives. We are selling our ideas, our plans, our enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact.

I think most Hollywood meetings are silly and I truly despise pitching. It's insane to expect someone to come in and tell you the story before they've written it, and buying an idea from someone who can explain it rather than write it is like choosing a mechanic based on his ability to draw a picture of your car's problem.

Selling an idea to a publisher is not as valuable as selling your audience to a publisher.

The most important external environment is the government of India. You have to sell your ideas to the government. Selling the idea is the most important thing, and for that I'll meet anybody in the government. I am willing to salaam anyone. One thing you won't find in me and that is an ego.

When I walk into a room, I know my storytelling has value and I have to sell my idea. I have to help people see the financial value and gain in my work.

I have to sell my idea, but they want it to be sold. I don't think I've ever done anything anyone's regretted.

People say, 'Dream big!' - but you have to think about the logistics. It's not just coming up with a great idea; it's how you can sell or market or promote that great idea.

To convince people to back your idea, you've got to sell it to yourself and know when it's the moment. Sometimes that means waiting. It's like surfing. You don't create energy, you just harvest energy already out there.

The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.

The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas.

I wear clothes and sell products and ideas.

I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.

I sell ideas. Actually, if you think about it, everything is really no more than idea. The past is nothing more than a memory, which is one kind of idea. The future is still a hope, another kind of idea. The present is fleeting and becomes a memory before you can put your hands on it. All ideas. I sell ideas.

I want to be in a position where I feel comfortable selling an idea.

When you're facing an investor or the institutions or a distributor, it's you yourself with your own ideas and your own project.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Idea-Advocacy Matrix highlights a couple of things: that good ideas need to be "sold" if they are ever going to see the light of day and bad ideas sometimes do quite well because of the skills of the proponent to sell them.