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My dad used to sell a type of commodity contract. It was so complicated, he was certain his sales people didn't understand what they were selling. Nicholas Jarecki

People Complicated Type He Understand Were His Sales Contract Sell Selling Commodity Certain Used Dad

Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. Startups have suffered the burst bubble. Nicholas Negroponte

Looking Big Research Startups Spend Bubble Term Most Big Companies Sales Than Closer Burst Less Companies Even Suffered Technological

We need to differentiate between commercial piracy - where criminal organisations produce illicit DVDs on a huge scale - and domestic, unauthorised filesharing, which may or may not be detrimental to overall sales. Nick Harkaway

Criminal Scale Detrimental Between Overall Sales Domestic Huge Commercial Piracy May Where Which Produce Organisations Differentiate Need

Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive. Nigel Farage

Alcohol Minimum Bad Bad Idea Prices Idea Sales Effects Duties

God forbid that the United Kingdom should take a lead and introduce a sensible tax system of its own which would probably comprise a very low level of corporation tax - tax on corporate profits - and perhaps a low level of corporate sales tax, because sales are where they are, and sales in this country are sales here, which we can tax here. Nigel Lawson

God Country Own Corporate Corporation System Introduce Would Kingdom Take Lead Perhaps Forbid Because Sales Sales Tax Very Tax Where Sensible Which Tax System Low Should United United Kingdom Level Profits Here

In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls. As a result, gold can be very volatile - upward and downward - at the peak of a crisis. Nouriel Roubini

My dad's an ex-policeman, and my mum is a sales representative, and they haven't got the acting bug. Bless them. Olivia Cooke

Bless Bug Got Sales Representative Them Acting Dad Mum

Because Apple's corporate DNA is that of a hardware company, its activities are meant to support hardware sales. Om Malik

Corporate Support Because Sales Meant Company Activities Apple Hardware

I'll have to self-publish it because unless you're on the 'New York Times' bestseller lists, anthologies don't sell all that well. However, low sales to a big publisher are a major success to a small one! P. N. Elrod

In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales. Padgett Powell

Great Experience Ensure Almost Always Sales Reviews

There are those who say the music industry must adapt to a wired world. They point to the decades-long rise in CD prices, even as manufacturing costs came down, and to data that shows Napster may actually increase sales of CDs by music-hungry customers as evidence that the music industry is simply afraid of a new technology. Parker Conrad

Music Technology World Down Increase Music Industry Say Evidence Those Must Rise Data Costs Point Prices Wired Simply New Industry Napster Came Sales New Technology May Afraid Customers Manufacturing Who Even Shows Actually Adapt

Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just down to the level of having a moderately popular blog. Most books sell 5, 10, or 15 thousand copies. Most are midlist books. With those people, even a modest online presence can make a difference in sales. Patrick Nielsen Hayden

People Down Books Those Thousand Some Online Having Most Obviously Make Make A Difference Sort Makes Blog Sales Sell Author Moderately Just Difference Public Modest Popular Even Profile Level Presence Copies

Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor - no one made very much except from U.S. sales and the occasional windfall. Paul Theroux

Life Money Made Except Factor No-One Occasional Because Years Sales Very Quite Different Literary Much Used Lived Britain

Basically, you're selling a world as an actor, right? I mean it's like any sales person: if you believe in your product, you know your product, you sell it a lot better. Paul Walker

You World Better Believe Like Know Sales Lot Sell Selling Person Any Mean Product Your Actor Right Basically

An unsolicited sales pitch may be part of a fraudulent investment scheme. Exercise extreme caution if you receive an unsolicited communication - meaning you didn't ask for it and don't know the sender - about an investment opportunity. Perianne Boring

You Communication Opportunity Extreme Fraudulent About Scheme Part Investment Unsolicited Know Exercise Caution Sales Pitch May Meaning Ask Receive

Many European countries, as well as Australia, Canada, Israel, and New Zealand, have adopted legislation that creates a 'public lending right', where the government recognises that enabling hundreds of people to read a single copy of a book provides a public good, but that doing so is likely to reduce sales of the book. Peter Singer

Government Good Book People Single Hundreds Hundreds Of People Recognises Adopted Countries New Likely Well Read Enabling Reduce Israel Doing Sales Provides Australia Canada Legislation Where New Zealand Lending Public Public Good Creates European European Countries Many Zealand Right Copy

In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing. Peter Sotos

Work People Past Every Extremely Marketing Case Rather Almost Generous Been Sales Than In The Past Worked Who Believed Publishers

Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs. Phyllis Schlafly

Health Mental Health Big Gearing Brother Mental Big Brother Underway Subject Sales Up Children Screening Bigger Plan March

Some stars can make five or six failures in a row and continue to work - with a raise. I can't figure how that works. Maybe foreign sales or a smart agent. Powers Boothe

Work Smart Stars Some Failures Make How Foreign Continue Sales Five Six Maybe Agent Figure Works Row Raise

Rentals are 10% of the sales of luxury brands globally, and we are able to achieve that in India by experimenting with location. Priya Sachdev

Achieve Luxury Location India Able Globally Sales Brands Experimenting

I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively. R. A. Salvatore

Me Business Book Internet Others Negatively Positively Way Purposes Point Beyond Go Sales Any Influence Might

Groupon, as you probably are by now aware, is exactly what it sounds like: a daily-deal site offering group discounts. Maybe you've seen that done before, but certainly not like Groupon, which has executed with an energetic sales force and engaging copywriters, many culled from the Chicago comedy scene. Rachel Sklar

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While I remain disappointed with our topline development in 2016, we continue to expect our performance to improve in 2017 and see the potential for margin expansion in 2017 and beyond, as market conditions improve and our sales transformation programs gain further traction. Rajeev Suri

Seeing clients as people with goals and desires helps you to understand their perspective, animating their existence beyond a line item in a sales pipeline report. Rana el Kaliouby

You People Goals Perspective Seeing Animating Beyond Understand Clients Line Existence Sales Item Pipeline Report Helps Desires

Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today. Randy Neugebauer

Today Strength Strong Nation Starts Market Our Typical Would More Economic Remains Economic Growth Although Without Housing Housing Market Sound Sales Expansion Experiencing Growth Levels

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