Christopher Morley book Parnassus on Wheels
Variant: When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.
Source: Parnassus on Wheels
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
1970s, The Education of Mike McManus, TVOntario, December 28 1977
Robert Silverberg (1935) American speculative fiction writer and editor
In Star Science Fiction 5, edited by Frederik Pohl, p. 53
Short fiction, Company Store (1959)
“I told him that his profit is made when you buy, not when you sell.”
Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist
Attributed to Marx (possibly in jest) in W. C. Privy's Original Bathroom Companion (2003).
Misattributed
Charles A. Reich book The Greening of America
Source: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter VII : "It's Just Like Living", p. 162
“Life's too short to sell things you don't believe in.”
Patrick Dixon book Building a Better Business
Building a Better Business (2005)
“When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine he is that polite all the time.”
E. W. Howe (1853–1937) Novelist, magazine and newspaper editor
Country Town Sayings (1911), p34.
