Quotes that People Wrote, to Float your Selling Boat

• “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.” – Oprah Winfrey
• “Remember, you only have to succeed the last time.” – Brian Tracy
• “Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.” – Lou Holtz
• “It’s not what happens to you it’s what you do about it that makes the difference.” – Wilson Mitchell
• “If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work.” – Dale Carnegie
• “When a consumer derives value – especially from something that was given to him for free – he becomes the best kind of evangelist.” – Mitch Joel
• “You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.” – Henry Ford
• “The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.” – Stephen R. Covey
• “Don’t sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.” – Ben Feldman
• “Timid salesmen have skinny kids.” – Zig Ziglar
• “If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will.” – Bob Hooey
• “A salesman, like the storage battery in your car, is constantly discharging energy. Unless he is recharged at frequent intervals he soon runs dry. This is one of the greatest responsibilities of sales leadership.” – R.H. Grant
• “Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.” – William Bernbach
• “Internalize the Golden Rule of sales that says: All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like and trust.” – Bob Burg
• “Everyone lives by selling something.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
• “Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman, not the attitude of the prospect.” – W. Clement Stone
• “Fall down seven times. Stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
• “Day by day, what you do is who you become.” – Heraclitus
• “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
• “Wise people learn when they can. Fools learn when they must.” – The Duke of Ellington
• “If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.” – George C. Hubbs
• “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
• “Here is a simple but powerful rule … always give people more than they expect to get.” – Nelson Boswell
• “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” – Michael Jordan
• “Success is 99% failure.” – Soichira Honda
• “You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event – it is a habit.” – Aristotle
• “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. ” – Harry Truman
• “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “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
• “Think you can, or think you can’t – either way, you are right.” – Henry Ford
• “Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.” – Jerry Rice
• “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Michael Jordan
• “Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.” – Winston Churchill
• “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
• “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou
• “It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.” – Abraham Lincoln
• “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” – Sir Edmund Hillary
• “A man’s status should be judged not so much by the position he has reached as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” – Booker T. Washington
• “A customer is the most important visitor on our premises; he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.” – Mahatma Gandi
• “The most unprofitable item ever manufactured is an excuse.” – John Mason
• “A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.” – Mary Kay Ash
• “Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.” – Karl Marx
• “Falling down is how we grow. Staying down is how we die.” – Brian Vaszily
• “The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.” -Martina Navratilova
• “The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.” – Richard Branson
• “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they never quit.” – Conrad Hilton
• “Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence.” – Sloan Wilson
• “You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.” – Henry Ford
• “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
• “Eagles don’t flock.” – Ross Perot

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