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  Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam

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• Be liked and you will never want.

  Arthur Miller

  Friendship, Want

  Arthur Miller (2015). “Death of a Salesman”, p.23, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

  W. Clement Stone

  Attitude, Perspective, Motivational Sales

  Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone (1991). “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.

  Arthur Miller

  Men, Orange, Pieces

  Arthur Miller (1998). “Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem”, p.63, Penguin

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• The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.

  Arthur Miller

  Funny Things, World, Knows

  Arthur Miller (1998). “Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem”, p.73, Penguin

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• Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.

  Arthur Miller

  Who I Am, Waiting, Trying

  Arthur Miller (1998). “Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem”, p.94, Penguin

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• I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.

  Early Wynn

  Sports, Pitching, Likes

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• I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Believe, Player

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• Timid salesmen have skinny kids.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Kids, Skinny

  Zig Ziglar (2004). “Secrets of Closing the Sale”, p.420, Revell

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• It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

  Warren Buffett

  Motivational, Investing, Buffets

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• There is always room at the top.

  Daniel Webster

  Motivational, Success, Life Changing

  When advised not to become a lawyer as the profession was overcrowded

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• The amateur salesman sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems.

  Stephen Covey

  Needs, Problem, Interpersonal Skills

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• I can sell anything that I totally believe in but I’m a horrible salesman of something I don’t believe in

  Nick Woodman

  Believe, Horrible, I Can

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• The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore. Foster any attempt to talk about other things; the longer you stay the better you get to know the prospect, and the more you will be trusted.

  David Ogilvy

  Faults, Worst, Bores

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• I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important. The company starts valuing the great salesmen, because they’re the ones who can move the needle on revenues, not the product engineers and designers. So the salespeople end up running the company.

  Walter Isaacson

  Running, Jobs, Moving

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.692, Simon and Schuster

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• If you're a car salesman, and someone says "This is a terrible car, I'm not buying it," it doesn't mean they hate you. They just don't like your product. I think that's a mistake a lot of people in show business make.. they're so tied to their act they take everything personally.

  Jay Leno

  Hate, Mistake, Mean

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• Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed.

  Dougray Scott

  Feelings, Covering, Looks

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• No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.

  Honore de Balzac

  Dog, Art, Wind

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• I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures.

  Martin Kippenberger

  Art, Ideas, People

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• You're gonna be your best salesman. If you don't sell yourself, nobody else is gonna have a better time with it than you. You've gotta get up for it, every day.

  T.I.

  Get Up, Ifs, Be Your Best

  Source: collider.com

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• I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Jobs, Faults

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• Salesmen always need something to sell.

  Barry Ritholtz

  Needs, Sells

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• No self-respecting pitcher throws the same way to every batter and no self-respecting salesman makes the same pitch to every client.

  Ray Kroc

  Self, Way, Clients

  Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.19, St. Martin's Griffin

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