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I didn’t really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest. – Tom Cochrane
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I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance.It overcomes almost everything, even nature.-John D. Rockefeller
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I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising. – Leo Burnett
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I have never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard. – Estee Lauder
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I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation. – Bo Bennett
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If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative. (via directcreative) – David Ogilvy
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If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. – Milton Berle
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If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you. – Zig Ziglar
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If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. – Thomas Edison
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If we all did things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.-Thomas A. Edison
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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. – Josh Billings
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If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time. – Zig Ziglar
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If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will. – Bob Hooey
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If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.-Vince Lombardi
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If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner. – Zig Ziglar
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If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost. – Zig Ziglar
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If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal. – Zig Ziglar
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If you work just for money, you'll never make it.But if you love what you are doing,and always put the customer first,success will be yours.-Ray Kroc
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.-Albert Einstein
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In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. – Nikos Kazantzakis
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In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance. – Bo Bennett
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In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you’re in a sales position, if you’re in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do. – Tate Taylor
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Integrity is what we do, what we say and what we say we do. – Don Galer
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It is better to wear out than to rust out.-Richard Cumberland
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. – Theodore Roosevelt
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It is neither safe nor prudent to do anything against conscience.-Martin Luther
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It is not your customer’s job to remember you. It is your obligation and responsibility to make sure they don’t have the chance to forget you. – Patricia Fripp
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It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive. – Nicholas Johnson
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It’s easier to explain price once than to apologize for quality forever. – Zig Ziglar
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It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.-Vince Lombardi
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Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days. – Zig Ziglar
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Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. – George Van Valkenburg
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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. – Albert Einstein
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Life’s battles don’t always go to the strongest or fastest; sooner or later those who win are those who think they can. – Richard Bach
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Live out of your imagination, not your history. – Stephen Covey
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Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough. -Benjamin Franklin
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Make a customer, not a sale. – Katherine Barchetti
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Make each day your masterpiece.-John Wooden
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Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.-Ernest Hemingway
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Managing objections head on is dead on. – Kraig Kleeman
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McDonald’s is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to deliver admirable sales. – Jim Cantalupo
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Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life. – Gottfried Reinhardt
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Most of my career has been in sales. I spend 50% or more of my time with customers and employees, and I can’t wait for it to be more than 50%. – Anne M. Mulcahy
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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. – Dale Carnegie
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Most people think selling is the same as talking. But the most effective salespeople know that listening is the most important part of their job. – Roy Bartell
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My hardcover sales are 17% down in books but up 400% in electronics. – Lisa See
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Never, never, never quit. – Winston Churchill
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No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.-Althea Gibson
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.-Eleanor Roosevelt
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No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy – unless you let him.-Napoleon Hill
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Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make. – William Bernbach
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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.-Thomas Jefferson
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.-Samuel Johnson
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Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers. – Michael Korda
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Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you. – Jeffrey Gitomer
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On any given Monday I am one sale closer and one idea away from being a Millionaire. – Larry D. Turner
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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.-Helen Keller
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One of the best predictors of ultimate success in either sales or non-sales selling isn’t natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections. – Daniel H. Pink
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One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn’t right. That mattered even over sales. – Ines de La Fressange
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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them. – Ann Landers