Insightful Quotes - Page 12

• People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.

  Zig Ziglar

  Life Changing, Emotional, People

  Zig Ziglar (2004). “Secrets of Closing the Sale”, p.233, Revell

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• I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Victim, Accidents, Series

  The Sirens of Titan ch. 10 (1959)

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• I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

  Bill Bryson

  Inspirational, Funny, Country

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Sep 01, 2012

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• God is subtle but he is not malicious.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Motivational, Math

  Remark made during a week at Princeton beginning 9 May 1921, later carved above the fireplace of the Common Room of Fine Hall (the Mathematical Institute), Princeton University - in R. W. Clark Einstein (1973) ch. 14

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• We don't get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we'll wait, we'll wait indefinitely.

  Warren Buffett

  Long, Waiting, Investing

  "Wait: The Art and Science of Delay". Book by Frank Partnoy, 2012.

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• To hell with your cancer. I've been living with cancer for the better part of a year. Right from the start, it's a death sentence. That's what they keep telling me. Well, guess what? Every life comes with a death sentence, so every few months I come in here for my regular scan, knowing full well that one of these times - hell, maybe even today - I'm gonna hear some bad news. But until then, who's in charge? Me. That's how I live my life.

  Walter White

  Cancer, Years, Knowing

  "Breaking Bad: Hermanos". TV Series, 2011.

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• Vanity prevents improvement

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Vanity, Improvement, Selling

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• Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Contentment, Exhausted, Wealth

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• He who guards his secrets retains control in his own hands

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Hands, Secret, Selling

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• The reasons why executives are scared of social selling are well documented. That being said, there are some hugely successful global business leaders using social selling tactics incredibly well - some of which even admit they could not operate without it!

  Bruce Rasmussen

  Successful, Leader, Tactics

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• We're emphasizing the knowable by predicting how certain people and companies will swim against the current. We're not predicting the fluctuation in the current.

  Charlie Munger

  People, Swim, Investing

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• If you're not sure why you're doing something, you can never do enough of it. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Imagination, Important, Enough

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• The universe is random. It's not inevitable. It's simple chaos. It's subatomic particles in endless, aimless collision. That's what science teaches us, but what is this saying? What is it telling us, when on the very night that this man's daughter dies, it's me who's having a drink with him? How can that be random?

  Walter White

  Daughter, Simple, Night

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• The company calls it 'downsizing' or 'rightsizing.' My own informal "Name the Layoff" contest produced some other euphemisms: Retroactive Hiring Freeze, Resume Revision Days, Amway Opportunity Time, and Corporation Lite.

  Dale Dauten

  Opportunity, Names, Marketing

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• It's a great opportunity to lower costs without sacrificing quality. If a retailer is not leveraging this capability, they are certainly missing something.

  Marc Chandler

  Sacrifice, Opportunity, Missing

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• People who focus on 'getting better' goals (also known as Personal Bests) as opposed to performance goals have a much better chance of success.

  Jill Konrath

  People, Goal, Focus

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• In the 10 or so years since e-sourcing technology first made its way into grocers' procurement departments, the results secured have been remarkable: frequent double-digit savings in both direct and indirect categories, new process efficiencies, higher procurement contract compliance, dramatically lower savings leakage - and the list goes on.

  Steve Whiteman

  Technology, Years, Way

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• Cheer up beautiful people... this is where you get to make it right.

  Walter White

  Beautiful, Cheer, People

  "Breaking Bad". TV Series, Episode: "Felina", www.imdb.com. 2008–2013.

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• The costs savings was a big win, but now we also have a schedule of events and are clearly aware of when our contracts begin and end...we are much more strategic about how we source now.

  Jason Kennedy

  Winning, Events, Saving

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• They say the shoe can always fit, no matter whose foot it's on. These days feel like I'm squeezing in 'em. Who ever wore 'em before just wasn't thinking big enough, I'm about to leave 'em with 'em

  Drake

  Thinking, Shoes, Feet

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• Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Character, Men, Trying

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• Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Change, Inspiring, Wise

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• The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Disappointment, Frustration, Outcomes

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• The results speak for themselves: Businesses that competitively sourced service contracts saved an average of about 22 percent. Even more impressive - nearly every e-auction delivered cost savings.

  Brian Miller

  Average, Auctions, Saving

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• Be afraid of a dignified man when he is hungry and a wicked man when his belly is full.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Men, Wicked, Hungry

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