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“Anything we do in advertising is controversial. If it’s provocative and sensual and related to what we’re selling, I’m willing to take the chance. I have fun with the ads.” “Business is not financial science, it’s about trading.. buying and selling. It’s about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it” “Don’t wait.The time will never be just right.” “Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.” “Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.” “For the normal sales person, I’m tasked with learning more products at a faster rate and being able to confidently sell them than before. And my competitors may potentially have more access to information about my products.” “He’s the best salesperson for this approach to immigration, because he’s such a forceful person, because he’s a border state Republican who clearly understands these issues.” “I am blessed to have first been a salesperson.” “I Like this quote I dislike this quote“The object of a salesperson is not to make sales, but to make customers” “I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation.” “I think it’s very important that whatever you’re trying to make or sell, or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won’t be here in ten years.” “If you are not moving closer to what you want in sales (or in life), you probably aren’t doing enough asking.” “I’m very proud of salesmanship. I think it’s an American heritage. I enjoy going out and seeing customers and to this day, I keep in touch with what they need and want by going out in the trenches with my troops. I call on customers across the country. It’s something I love.” “It was kind of tough. I would come to her defense if a salesperson was rude to my mom.” “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” “Lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.” “Modeling is basically ‘Buy more stuff! Don’t you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!’ If I’d wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.” “One today is worth two tomorrows.” “Our intention creates our reality.” “People want to buy from salespeople who are successful. Since we gather information first and primarily by sight and then form our opinions in the same way, it is important to look successful.” “Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many–not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” “Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.” “Successful people usually are the ones who get up early to go to work. And because they do, they respect a salesman who’s willing to do the same thing.” “The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don’t design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don’t really care, as long as we’re selling the one the customer wants.” “The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.” “The point to remember about selling things is that, as well as creating atmosphere and excitement around your products, you’ve got to know what you’re selling” “The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.” “When somebody buys a stock it’s because they think it’s going to go up and the person who sold it to them thinks it’s going to go down. Somebody’s wrong.” “You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.” “You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.” “You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.” “You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.” “You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.” “You miss 100% of the shots you never take.” “Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not remain so if you only perceive an ideal and strive to reach it. You cannot travel within and stand still without.” “Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it. They will go for you and with you.” “Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart…. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” end of quotes for October! “A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.” “A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.” “A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others.” “A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.” “A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.” “A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.” “A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.” “A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.” Samuel Johnson “All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.” “Always be closing…That doesn’t mean you’re always closing the deal, but it does mean that you need to be always closing on the next step in the process.” “Approach each customer with the idea of helping him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service.” “Be who you are and be that well.” “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” “But for any writer worthy of the name there are moments during the writing process when the rest of the planet might as well have gone to Venus. And those moments are not for sale.” “Competition is a by-product of productive work, to its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” “Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.” “Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.” “Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.” David Hume “Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.” “Enthusiasm is the way you trigger other people’s emotions so they instictively help and support you.” “Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.” “Everyone lives by selling something.” “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” Albert Einstein “For every sale you miss because you’re too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you’re not enthusiastic enough.” “For every sale you miss because you’re too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you’re not enthusiastic enough.” “Forget about the business outlook, be on the outlook for business.” “Free enterprise means that the more enterprising you are, the freer you are.” “Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.” “Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods” “Great services are not cancelled by one act or by one single error.” Benjamin Disraeli “Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.” “Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.” “He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.” “He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.” “He who finds diamonds must grapple in mud and mire because diamonds are not found in polished stones. They are made.” “He who limps is still walking.” “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” Buddha “Hope can always cope.” “How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.” Gilbert K. Chesterton “I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.” “I have never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard.” “I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach.” “I think one way the cops could make money would be to hold a murder weapons sale. Many people could really use used ice picks.” Jack Handy “Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.” “If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.” “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” “If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.” “If you’re a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.” “Inequality of knowledge is the key to a sale.” “It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.” “It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.” Harvey S. Firestone “It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.” “It’s easy to figure out who isn’t a team player. They’ll constantly remind the coach just how good they are.” “Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.” “Make a habit of dominating the listening and let the customer dominate the talking.” “Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs” Saint Francis de Sales “Negotiating techniques do not work all that well with kids, because in the middle of a negotiation, they will say something completely unrelated such as, ‘You know what? I have a belly button!’ and completely throw you off guard.” “Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.” “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.” “No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.” H.E. Luccock “Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.” “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” “Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.” “Often greater risk is in postponement than in making a wrong decision.” “Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.” “One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.” “Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.” Terry Pratchett “People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built” Eleanor Roosevelt “Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weaK” “Persistent work triumphs” “Quality begins on the inside… and then works its way out” “Quality will be prized as a precious possession” “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not” “Remember, you only have to succeed the last time.” “Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.” “Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman, not the attitude of the prospect.” “Self pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness. Self pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness” “Service is no mushroom growth. It presupposes the will first and then experience.” “Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means” “show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself” “Simply stated, it is less me and more we.” “Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.” “Teams work better – when they work together.” “Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question.” “The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.” “The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.” “The jack of all trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim” “The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example” “The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win” “The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones” “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires” “The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way” “The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval” “The only pressure that you use in a professional selling presentation is the presence of silence after the closing question.” “The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.” “The secret of man’s success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.” “The strength of the team is each individual member…the strength of each member is the team.” “There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love – every man works his oar voluntarily!” “There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.” “Think of yourself as a resource to your clients; an advisor, counselor, mentor and friend.” “Those who love to be feared fear to be loved” “To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.” “Treat objections as request for further information.” “We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” “We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.” “Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.” “Wearing the same shirts doesn’t make a team.” “What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one’s ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.” “You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That’s the mark of a true professional.” “You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down.” Mary Pickford “Your company’s most valuable asset is how it is known to its customers.”
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| “A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others.” | Norman | Shidle |
| “A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.” | Japanese | proverb |
| “Competition is a by-product of productive work, to its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” | Ayn | Rand |
| “Enthusiasm is the way you trigger other people’s emotions so they instictively help and support you.” | Paul | Meyer |
| “If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.” | Stephen R. | Covey |
| “It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.” | Harvey S. | Firestone |
| “It’s easy to figure out who isn’t a team player. They’ll constantly remind the coach just how good they are.” | Brian G. | Jett |
| “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.” | Andrew | Carnegie |
| “No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.” | H.E. | Luccock |
| “One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.” | Kareem | Abdul-Jabbar |
| “Simply stated, it is less me and more we.” | Unknown | |
| “Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.” | Stephen | Covey |
| “Teams work better – when they work together.” | Alice | Vernon |
| “The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.” | Lewis B. | Ergen |
| “The strength of the team is each individual member…the strength of each member is the team.” | Phil | Jackson |
| “We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” | Benjamin | Franklin |
| “Wearing the same shirts doesn’t make a team.” | Buchholz |
