“Life's too short to sell things you don't believe in.”

— Patrick Dixon , book Building a Better Business

Building a Better Business (2005)

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British futurist 1957

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“If you believe in the future life and, instead of preparing for it, sell it in order to buy this world, then that is folly! You do not normally sell two things for one; how can you give up an endless life for a limited number of days.”

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058–1111) Persian Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic

The Deliverance from Error https://www.amazon.com/Al-Ghazalis-Path-Sufism-Deliverance-al-Munqidh/dp/1887752307

“When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.”

Christopher Morley (1890–1957) American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

“Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter.”

Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress

http://www.last.fm/user/helena_wanje.

“You know. Life's short. If you don't try new things, you'll never know what you're best at. And you can only make time for new things by quitting the things you know don't work for you.”

Meg Cabot book Teen Idol

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“I’m totally not kidding. … Life is too short. This is all too hard to do to actually be kidding about the whole thing.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

As quoted in "Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding" by Katrina Onstad, in The New York Times (14 July 2011)

“The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.”

Arthur Miller book Death of a Salesman

Charley
Death of a Salesman (1949)

“Life is too short, and Proust is too long.”

Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer

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“If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you fall short of. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

“Life's too short to sell things you don't believe in.”

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