| "If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative. (via directcreative)" David Ogilvy |
| "1% of repeat purchases are made out of indifference and not out of loyalty. (via Small Biz CRM)" Industry analysts |
| "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." Albert Einstein |
| "It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting." Jean Paul Gaultier |
| "The trouble with, 'A place for everything and everything in its place' is that there's always more everything than places." Robert Brault |
| "If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject." Mignon McLaughlin |
| "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 |
| "To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks." Ben Jonson |
| "If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will." Bob Hooey |
| "Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman, not the attitude of the prospect." William Clement Stone |
| "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 |
