One measure for promoting both stability and fairness across financial market segments is a small sales tax on all financial transactions - what has come to be known as a Robin Hood Tax. This tax would raise the costs of short-term speculative trading and therefore discourage speculation. At the same time, the tax will not discourage "patient" investors who intend to hold their assets for longer time periods, since, unlike the speculators, they will be trading infrequently.
A flat tax is roughly the same as a sales tax.
Ice-T is so old that the first thing he bought with the money from his album sales was his freedom.
Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?
Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain.
Properly practiced creativity MUST result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.
In the sales profession, the real work begins after the sale is made.
A salesman, like the storage battery in your car, is constantly discharging energy. Unless he is recharged at frequent intervals he soon runs dry. This is one of the greatest responsibilities of sales leadership.
I'm not sure I was a typical head of a company. Most people that run big companies come out of sales and they come out of marketing and they're quite serious and they have MBA's from very good schools and things like that. I'm an accidental CEO, thank the Disney Company.
Chevrolet was puzzled when they discovered that their sales for the Chevy Nova were off the charts everywhere but in Latin America. They finally realized that "Nova" in Spanish translates to "no go. " Not the best name for a car. . . anywhere "no va. "
Whatever the career, sales ability distinguishes superstars from also-rans.
Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student
Even if you are new in sales, you can make up in numbers what you lack in skills.
The ability to defend yourself is a basic necessity like food and water. We exempt food and water from the sales tax.
To promote the sales of GM vehicles, Obama says the government will stand by your GM car warranty. And all the taxpayers will get a lube job.
I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers.
I came, I saw, I conquered From record sales to sold out concerts.
To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.
There will be no breakout. When we changed for the single, we never specified what the breakout for sales to streams were.
A board member of mine used to say sales fix everything in a startup, and that is really true.