Zig Ziglar

When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they'll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don't.

American Author

Snoop Dogg

I want to write, direct, produce, but in steps. I want to take steps. I don't want to just jump in because I sold a lot of records and just feel like I can jump into the movie world. Naw, I want to learn the movie world like I learned the music world.

American Rapper

Robert Frost

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

American Poet

Rick Perry

Let's make what Americans buy. Buy what Americans make. And sell it to the world.

American Politician

Christopher Priest

I didn't want to write a 'black' book because black characters are a tough sell.

American Writer

Pete Hamill

You've got to have something in your life you don't sell to others.

American Journalist

Billy Mays

It's important for me to sell a product that works.

American Businessman

The Notorious B.I.G.

My real life helped me sell a lot of records.

American Musician

Patrick Swayze

Everything is designed to help you sell out.

American Actor

Melissa Auf der Maur

I sold my life to Capitol Records; it sucks.

Canadian Musician

Understand that 'sell' involves a buyer giving money in return for goods or services.

Transactional Nature

'Sell' can imply the amount of something sold, often used with words like 'out' or 'well'.

Expressing Quantity

Learn set phrases with 'sell', like 'sell like hotcakes', meaning something sells very fast.

Fixed Expressions

'Sell' can imply persuasion, so pay attention to the speaker's persuasive tone or intent.

Convincing Tone

Understand 'sell' in this sense doesn't always involve money, but the idea of convincing others.

Figurative Use

Here, 'sell' means sacrificing something valuable for personal gain; often used metaphorically.

Metaphorical Sacrifice

This use usually comes with a negative judgement about someone's actions from the speaker.

Negative Connotations

'Sell' can be about presenting oneself positively, often in a professional or social context.

Self-Promotion

Used to describe the action of promoting products or ideas, similarly to advertising.

Marketing Language

Recognize when 'sell' is used in illegal contexts, typically linked to drug dealing.

Illicit Contexts

Be aware of contexts where 'sell' is part of slang and could mean something illicit or informal.

Street Slang

 almost all farmers, whether they're organic or conventional, they buy seed produced by seed companies. So there's definitely a commercial interest to sell a lot of seed, but hopefully they're selling seed that the farmers want to buy. It's different in the less developed world. Farmers there cannot afford the seed. These seeds are not being sold.

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