"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. |