A sale is the act of selling a product or service in return for money or other compensation. It is an act of completion of a commercial activity.
The seller' or salesperson – the provider of the goods or services – completes a sale in response to an acquisition or to an appropriation or to a request. There follows the passing of title (property or ownership) in the item, and the application and due settlement of a price, the obligation for which ...
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- A sale is not something you pursue, it's what happens to you while you are immersed in serving your customer. ,
- A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. ,
- In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he could completely understand advertising jargon he would be badly disappointed. The half-intelligibility which we expect, or even hope, to find in the latest product language personally reassures each of us that progress is being made: that the pace exceeds our ability to follow. ,
- The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it. ,
- When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves. ,
- Buying is a profound pleasure. ,
- Sell the sizzle, not the steak. ,
- Nobody dast blame this man. For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back -- that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory. ,
- Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman -- not the attitude of the prospect. ,
- Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but, disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.
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