QUOTES-2

"If you are not moving closer to what you want in sales (or in life), you probably aren't doing enough asking."

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. "

"An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life."

"One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination. "

"Work is not man's punishment.It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure."
-- George Sand, novelist


"There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in or out. There's no such thing as a life in-between. "
-- Pat Riley, basketball coach


"Self-trust is the first secret of success. "
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
-- Charles Darwin, scientist

"There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment, and you start to decline."
-- Andy Grove, Intel CEO

"The path of least resistance is the path of the loser. "
-- H.G. Wells, author

"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. "
-- Michael Jordan, basketball star

"You always pass failure on the way to success."
-- Mickey Rooney, actor

"The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before. "
-- Steve Young, football player

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. "
-- Dale Carnegie, author

"If you believe in unlimited quality and act in all your business dealings with total integrity, the rest will take care of itself. "
-- Frank Perdue, Perdue Farms president

"Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us: concentrate our energy. "
-- Denis Waitley, motivational coach


"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive business advantage."
-- Jack Welch, General Electric CEO

"You have to pretend you're 100% sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure. "
-- Andrew Grove, Intel co-founder

"The world is more malleable than you think, and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape. "
-- Bono, musician

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value."
-- Albert Einstein, scientist

"Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. "
-- Herodotus, historian

"I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing. "
-- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball player

"Salesmanship is an American specialty. It typifies the competitive spirit of our economy. Nowhere else in the world have so many executives come up through the selling ranks. "
-- Robert Whitney, financial executive

"Heights were made to be looked at, not to be looked from. "
-- G.K. Chesterton, writer

"Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others. "
-- Martin Luther King Jr., clergyman

"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. "
-- Woody Allen, director

"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help." "
-- Ronald Reagan, 40th U.S. president

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. "
-- Winston Churchill, British prime minister

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. "
-- Roger Bannister, runner

"A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies. "
-- William Wrigley Jr., entrepreneur

"The point to remember about selling things is that, as well as creating atmosphere and excitement around your products, you've got to know what you're selling."
-- Stuart Wilde, Self Help Author and Lecturer

"A visionary company doesn't simply balance between preserving a tightly held core ideology and stimulating vigorous change and movement; it does both to an extreme."
-- Jim Collins, Business Consultant

"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you."
-- Brian Tracy, Author

"Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear,
wherever they might be."
--Lakshmi Mittal, CEO of Arcelor Mittal

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. "
-- Stephen King, author

"I enjoy every opportunity and live every moment. And that is why I have no regrets. It's when you are not scared of losing that you win everything."
-- Shailendra Singh, Vice President, Sequoia Capital

"Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor nor should life rest on a single hope."
-- Epictetus, philosopher

"To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful."
-- Edward R. Murrow, Journalist

"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."
-- Samuel Johnson, Lexicographer

"Don't let yesterday take up too much of today."
-- Will Rogers, humorist

"Customers provide you with the most accurate barometer of what's right and wrong."
-- Herb Kelleher, Southwest Airlines co-founder


"There is more to life than just increasing its speed."
-- Mahatma Gandhi, Statesman

"Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing."
-- Phil Jackson, basketball coach