Sentence examples for selling talent from inspiring English sources

Mr. Leigh said he was selling talent on the hoof.

After one brief season (2013/14) when owner Dmitry Rybolovlev rolled the dice and spent big in the transfer market (negative balance of 156m) the club has returned to its traditional way of nurturing and then selling talent.

Unlike European football clubs, which are free to buy and sell talent at will, the major American sports all ban significant cash transactions, requiring their franchises to make trades instead.

Some of the ones that sell talent rather than goods need only enough startup capital for a desk, a phone and a month's rent.

There's both good business logic -- and a bit of irony -- in the notion that LinkedIn will end up augmenting the star stature of both top employees and top companies in the never-ending tug of war between the people who buy and sell talent.

Clubs which depend on producing and then selling homegrown talent may go bust.

The problem, Mr. Hedborg said, "is that I'm selling my talent for a price based on an object".

Maugham is again selling his talent short: it was not every writer who could sit down and dash off a top-rate comedy within a month.

"People really are selling their talent in a way that can make them money," said Ai Weiwei, an internationally recognized artist based in Beijing.

The music-buying public, however, appears to have decided that Leonard Cohen - poet, novelist, singer-songwriter and ladies' man - has been selling his talent too short for too long.

But who would have thought that the United States, with its burgeoning soccer kindergartens and its chance to start afresh with youth training, would emulate Africa in selling the talent?