Excluding fleet, retail sales of GM and Ford were down 7% and 6, respectively.

If we exclude the $2 billion in proceeds from asset sales, it appears that GM burned through approximately $1.2 billion in cash in the quarter.

I hope that, whatever happens within the publishing industry, because of the increased control writers have of their own careers, better sales information and the advent of the internet, that ultimately this change in our working environment will be a change for the better.

The homes sales data is more important, because if the market continues to slow, that will ultimately take pressure off the U.S. Fed Reserve.

Although we are coming out of deflation, it is still going to be difficult for retailers to boost their sales.

(Customers) all enjoyed the 20 percent discounts. They were taking advantage of these sales opportunities.

It’s always been a conundrum why hip-hop, the top CD seller, hasn’t translated into ticket sales.

We can find food and beverage companies most face the challenges in sales management due competition and nature of their product. Sales force is get tool for these companies at different level of sales.

If you do not believe in your product or service enough to offer it to your own family and friends, then you should question the value of what you are selling.

All Advertising is essentially a promise of future happiness.

sales rates are going to be a little bit less important. ”¡ What’s really important is how we’re setting up for the next two, three, four years.

Will we sell out every game? No. Are we going to be happy with 800,000 in ticket sales? Absolutely.

Change your introduction so that you can change the outcome. Engage clients or they’ll be thinking divorce.

However, more important to all of that: the players played the game as a true team. There are many teams in baseball, but not all play as a team. Many merely play as a group of talented athletes, which is a huge difference over the course of a long season.

Over the years since that time I seemed to fall back into sales as a mainstay of existence of some kind, and I have learned many valuable lessons along the way. It has not always been rainbows and sunshine, but I have tried to gain knowledge from every experience along the journey. There have been...

I call these lessons ‘learned on the fly’ because the knowledge gained from the experiences connected with them were very much akin to the spirit of the centerfielder in baseball running backward at full speed, looking towards the heavens, trying to not lose sight of the ball or fail to notice the sensation of gravel...

Give me a person who sincerely wants to commit themselves to being a salesperson, and put them on my team and I will give you a hero. That has always been my mindset as a sales manager, whenever I have been in that position. I believe in people, and I seek to encourage them to...

The name doesn’t impact sales. What impacts sales is the characteristics or the traits of the variety and how that impacts the bottom lines of the growers.

Our goal is to elevate the dialogue around post-sales service and address issues that go beyond the tactical operations of workforce or inventory management. We are building a community of senior business and technology executives to help shape the role service organizations should play in the product value chain.

We are very pleased by our results in the second-quarter. Despite the lack of hot toys that drove sales in the year-ago period, we reported strong revenue, thereby indicating the strength of our underlying core business,

Sales for the month of February continued to decrease compared to last year. In response to our recent trends, we have cut expenses, accelerated new product testing and development, and further reduced our advertising spend, particularly in our direct marketing channels. In the near term, we expect our reduced advertising to contribute to continued lower...

All our businesses continued to grow strongly, with double-digit year-on-year percentage sales gains across the board.

The worst effects of the transition lie ahead. Although we expect a brief respite from double-digit sales declines in April, when Microsoft is likely to double the supply of Xbox 360 hardware units, we expect a return to software sales declines over the next several months.

It became a huge amount of work in December. There was no sponsor, no system for ticket sales, no program book.

We welcome in particular the fact that the court confirmed that discriminatory pricing agreements for domestic sales and exports to the detriment of consumers in other member states are an illegal, restrictive business practice.

The only thing we can go by is sales and that increases 10 to 12 percent every year.

At some point the sales of non-PC computing devices are going to exceed those of PCs, at least in terms of units, and no way is Intel going to have the kind of market dominance it has in the PC market–there are just so many different types of devices, standards, and vendors.

We note that NPD U.S. retail video-game software sales data for the January quarter implies that Take-Two’s sales are down 40 percent compared with the prior-year quarter, so we believe that the company is likely on track to meet our revenue and earnings per share estimates for the period.

Success does not judge one man for being worthy above another. Success doesn’t choose you because of your family name or existing wealth.

You can take and nail two sticks together like they’ve never been nailed together before and some fool will buy it.

Yesterday I bought myself a karate trophy. But I feel like I won it, because the salesman really beat me up over the price.

I vacuumed my piano, hoping to soak up the last of the concertos. I should sell musical sponges, for the lover in the kitchen in all of us.

I make naked, and I make it by hand. I also make it using the rest of my body. Coming soon to a Walmart near you.

I used to sell hellos by the wave until I found out Dark Jar Tin Zoo was reselling them on eBay as goodbyes. Now I’m a yawn distributor.

The salesman said the sale was happening because all the gizmos in the store had to be liquidated. It was a lot of solidfluid, and I would have bought something, but the only thing I was thirsty for was her love.

You don’t need batteries for an introduction. Buy my Networking in a Box today and see for yourself. (Handshakes sold separately.)

I’ll record what I’ve learnt on the subject of what I sell. What it actually is means little to anyone other than me, but what it does and how it helps, means everything to those who require it.

I had a dream about you. I was selling dreams and you were selling sleep. We decided to partner up, until I used some of your product and went for a sleepwalk and fell off a cliff.

I had a dream about you. I invented and sold shoes that left no footprints, and you were thinking about committing a murder in a muddy area. I said that committing a murder was a bad idea, and that you should commit several murders, but I was just trying to sell more shoes.

Retail sales were significantly healthier than expected in September and August’s sales were revised up, going a long way to killing off already fading hopes of a November interest rate cut.

Anytime you’re tempted to upsell someone else, stop what you’re doing and upserve instead.

but it ain’t going to affect car sales soon.

A gumble bee is half gum ball, half bumble bee, and it’s so chewy it stings. Makes me want to be a better lover and tractor salesman.

Never make a sales pitch as the way you introduce yourself. What you CAN say is how you help people and businesses.

It’s Wednesday, and I just made a fresh batch of Thursdays. Buy one while they’re still hot! They go on sale Friday.

Footwear brands and the retail sector are forced to reflect the cost of the duties in their sales prices. There is no doubt that consumer prices will rise by up to 20 percent if antidumping duties of such magnitude as proposed by the European Commission are imposed.

Some salesmen think that selling is like eating—to satisfy an existing appetite; but a good salesman is like a good cook—he can create an appetite when the buyer isn’t hungry.

I now know that success can not choose me. It is waiting on a path that I must walk. In truth, it waits there for everyone.Many do not know where the path begins. Some search for a shortcut to the end. But the majority of the world does not even realise there is a path...

No longer will I measure myself against competitors, who don’t even know that a race is being run. From now on, I will measure myself against the man in front of me. I will measure myself against a new personal best, achieving my next ambitious goal.

So open questions to understand. Closed questions to confirm and gain commitment.