| "Never lie when the truth is more profitable." Stanislaw Lec |
| "A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use." Washington Irving |
| "A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities." Herman Melville |
| "The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell." Confucius |
| "We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects." Alexis de Tocqueville |
| "Patience can cook a stone." African proverb |
| "He who refuses to obey cannot command." Kenyan proverb |
| "Rain beats a leopard's skin, but it does not wash out the spots." African proverb |
| "Money is sharper than the sword." African proverb |
| "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." Calvin Coolidge |
| "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." Emily Post |
| "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 |
| "Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised." Christian Nestell Bovee |
| "The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed." Martina Navratilova |
| "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." Bo Bennett |
| "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 |
| "The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them." J. G. Holland |
| "Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages." Terry Pratchett |
| "How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win." Gilbert K. Chesterton |
| "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." Victor Cherbuliez |
| "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 |
| "In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can." Nikos Kazantzakis |
| "Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make." William Bernbach |
| "You don't close a sale, you open a relationship if you want to build a long-term, successful enterprise." Patricia Fripp |
| "Everyone lives by selling something." Robert Louis Stevenson |
| "Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness." Edward Said |
| "A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one." Mary Kay Ash |
| "People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts." Robert Keith Leavitt |
| "I have never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard." Estée Lauder |
| "And old Dave, he'd go up to his room, y'understand, put on his green velvet slippers - I'll never forget - and pick up his phone and call the buyers, and without leaving his room, at the age of eighty-four, he made his living. And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want." Arthur Miller (1915 - 2005), Death of a Salesman, 1949. |
