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I was so sure that I knew what they needed and what I wanted to sell them that I never stopped long enough to find out what it was they wanted to buy.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
In this world of half-jobs and liars, I will prevail.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
I have discovered fallen trees across my path and have possessed neither the strength to move them nor the patience or tenacity to find an alternative way round. I have simply returned to where I came from, and told myself there had been no other choice.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Finding happiness by delivering it.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Everything would have been for nothing just because I simply didn’t listen.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they’d met me.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Speaking from the heart is simple. Listening wholeheartedly, however, is much, much more difficult and most rare.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
You must have realised by now that when one really cares, really tries to help, the other party recognises the fact and, therefore, easily sees the logic in working together for the greater good, for the mutual benefit of both.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
You’ve got to be driven to become successful.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
What is the true cost of a purchasing decision that goes wrong?
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
In the past, I have all too often listened without hearing, asking questions when I had no intention of hearing the answer or understand my customer’s requirements.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Like an ant, I will find my way round any obstacle. Like a child, I will persevere with pinpoint focus.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
I will not let those, who cannot recognise how I can be of service, dissuade me from showing them how I can help.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
I will look the part. I will act the part. I will deliver that which I have promised to deliver.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Like the evangelist, I will shine with the light I have been shown, recognise that I have the ultimate solution for all my prospects, nurture that feeling deep within, and repeat the words to myself every day, until there is no doubt in my mind that keeping such good news hidden would be the very worst type of sin.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
I will design myself a reputation, in which prospects can place their trust, and customers return to and recommend.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
I will design my reputation and my resolve shall be absolute. I shall not give in when I know I can help.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
It saddens me to note that there will always be con artists and charlatans in the world. Men who aim to fool the public by clothing themselves in the robes of experts.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Listening is a discipline. It’s all about being present at that moment in time.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
I want you to start realising how far away you are from being able to listen professionally.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
You listen like an amateur and fool yourself into believing it is enough when it is not.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Sceptics are persuaded by a good reputation, for it is an unspoken statement of proof.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Reputation is the panacea for those who lack confidence in their own decisions.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
How we feel about those we give our business to is of vital importance.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Who would be willing to put up with less than the desired result, if they could afford to have it done properly?
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
The confidence felt, when dealing with genuine reputation, often outweighs the simplicity of price.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
In the past, I have bargained myself away, believing that price was more important than cost, quality, reliability, or reputation. In the past, I was clearly wrong.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
I need a first-class reputation
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
In this world there are those who enjoy giving people balloons and there are those who take great pleasure in popping them. And I wish to be remembered as being firmly in the first party.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Most men have professions, yet few act like professionals.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
If you woke before dawn one morning with the formula for a vaccine, which would cure the most ghastly disease currently known to man, releasing millions from an agonising death, would you roll over and resume sleeping until daylight?
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
There can be no success in sales without tenacity.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Seeking those elusive individuals is like mining for rare gems. It will take hard work, patience, and a persistent attitude. To find that rich seam of colourful stones, you will have to chip through dirt and rock. You will have to learn how to hold rubble in your hands and see the fortune inside.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
It is your duty to save these prospects from that disappointment. Every potential customer, who misses out on what you have to offer, due to your lack of zeal or passion, every prospect who ends up with an excuse of an alternative from your lacklustre competition, should rest heavy on your conscience.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Mark my words. Perception is reality and how someone perceives you is their reality.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Let your customers and prospects recommend you to each other and let you competition wish they were you. That is our mission.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Sometimes, if you get too close to a subject you can miss what’s most important.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
You look green, immature. A young boy playing at business, dressing up in the manner in which he believes an actual grown-up would. Your viewpoint of business attire is one of wide-eyed wonder from the nursery door.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left.
— Chris     Murray
In short, the difference between you and your doctor is that he has a well-designed reputation and you do not.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
If your doctor told you that you needed immediate surgery could you perform it yourself?
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Trust me. In a very short time, you will become sought out by those in your network. Initially for your sound advice, but soon after as a provider of service. Few people seek advice about a subject that doesn’t require a solution.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Each step of your current journey will take you to new and interesting worlds of opportunity and as every intrepid explorer knows, when one visits strange new lands one must be aware of their customs.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
My friend, doubt is the opposite of faith and the two cannot exist together in the same time and place. Either you believe or you don’t. To build your faith and to absolutely hammer home the incredible importance of embracing the reality that success is a choice.
— Clay Clark, Will Not Work for Food - 9 Big Ideas for Effectively Managing Your Business in an Increasingly Dumb, Distracted & Dishonest America
You will never change a prospective customer’s mind, my boy. There is a chance that he might make a new decision if enough reliable evidence comes his way, but to do that he has to want to listen - to hear it - and that requires trust and respect.
— Chris     Murray
Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Fascinatingly resilient the tenacity of a child. Not yet conditioned by society to give up when instructed to do so.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
We must design how we wish to be perceived, and then we must work even harder to continuously recreate and re-evaluate that perception.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Where he comes from, the education he has received, his family history, his wealth, they matter not a jot, but the perception he conveys - that my, boy, is the key. If they believe he belongs - that he is part of the room - then he does, he is. And whichever room he is about to step into, then that is who he must become.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
If you honestly know how you help people, then you should become passionate about sharing it, spread the good news, give everyone a chance to share in the solutions that you can provide.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
From today onward, you will learn how to become evangelical about the many ways you help people.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
His belief is so passionate that it fills him with the burning desire to share his fabulous news with anyone who will listen. He is concerned that it is us that might be missing out, not him. His faith in a single road to salvation and paradise is so intense, that it would be ungodly not to share the good news with all those who are not aware.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
This is how you must be. You must become as evangelical about your promised outcome as he is about his. You must believe that you, and you alone, have the solution to your prospects problems. Even if they do not recognise those problems themselves.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Think upon the numbers I have been sharing with you. Of your competitors, five out of ten will do little more than take their customer's money immorally. A further three out of ten will leave them dissatisfied.
— Chris     Murray
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— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
You should feel so driven to help the world that it would weigh you down if a single person received anything but the best.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
A gentleman of ambition is aware of the people he wishes to be associated with both socially and commercially. He knows that moving through different levels of society is akin to stepping through different rooms in an enormous house, each door leading to a grander environment than the last. He may, of course, settle for the comfort of any room he reaches. Alternatively, he may continue through successive doors to surround himself with even greater fineries and riches.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save them all from the charlatans and the nearly-men.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Understand why you are different and how you help, recognise your target market, and give them something they might not even realise they are missing.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the sweet reward is that as you make new friends and encourage others, the foolish have ignored the fact that you have already shown them your teeth.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
By the time others begin to make moves, you should be mastering maneuvers
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
To my shame, I had never thought to ask anything of the future, and yet woke each and every day embittered because it was never what I needed it to be.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Unwittingly, I have sailed through my entire life, so far, with neither direction nor destination.I had a vague instinct to reach dry land every once in a while for supplies, but never anything more than that.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
The Swimmer's Advantage:1)The goal is measured first by seeing; The distance is accomplished by the strategy of believing that the same set of repetitious acts will get them there.2)Even when the elements around you are overwhelming, have the confidence to keep your head the above water. 3) Though at times you may not even see it, faith is knowing that the shore is always straight ahead. 4) By consistently reaching out over and over, you are bound to be rewarded by touching something worth more than when you started.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
It has nothing to do with the time being right or wrong. Storms just happen.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
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— For if you look closelyAt the so called idols of the worldThey have something in common.They were ignorantThey ignored the noiseThey created their own path.
The reward for living my life in this manner? An existence like that of a seagull picking up scraps from the back of a fishing boat. Surviving day to day. Nothing left for tomorrow and no idea what tomorrow should be.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
The only time you have is the where and when of right now. There will always be good times, bad times, hard times, and complete disasters. However, there is no other option but to be where you are, when you are. That is a universal truth for everyone. The important thing is how you respond, what you decide to do, and when you decide to do it.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Respect, wealth, property, friendship, even love. Did I expect to simply fall over each of them as I strolled aimlessly through the years? Was I expecting my whole life to be some form of lucky accident?
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
I see what I have to become and I recognise the time it will take.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesn’t get done.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Ready? No one is ever ready, my boy. But some do what they plan to do and some never will. The difference between the two is that the first group understand that they need to start somewhere, so they do so. Straight away
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
And by making that plan you have differentiated yourself from more than ninety percent of the population. You are one of the few, who has a clear direction, a decisive plan of action.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the sweet reward is that as you make new friends and encourage others, the foolish will learn the error of their ways because you did at least show them your teeth.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
If I listened to all the noise in the worldI would have many standards to conform to But the zeal to succeedCuts through the racket
— Priscilla Koranteng, Trails to the Stream: Poetry and Inspiration for Everyday Living
Sometime in the future, when business slumps and there appears to be no solution in sight, you will hear others moaning about and blaming the things that are completely out of their control, wasting hour after hour on elements, which cannot be changed. Meanwhile, you, my boy, you will be focusing your efforts on the only thing that matters. The response which ensures you reach your destination.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
You see continuous movement is the important thing here. Those who remain in one position and then lie to themselves about their progress are the ones in real trouble.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
You may have an overall target to achieve with each prospect, but if you are going to have an ideal outcome for each call, should you not also have a tolerable outcome to fall back on? Something you are willing to put up with if things don't go completely to plan, but something that still moves things forward ever so slightly?
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Currently, you are approaching each opportunity with a single possible outcome and when that doesn't happen you fool yourself that there was nothing more that you could have done.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
The future is a fabulous place to bury your success.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
All these ships are currently safe at anchor but that is not what they were designed for is it? Your job is not to remain anchored and safe. Your job is to move closer to your destination at every attempt.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
When things get tough, remember this mariner’s star. Bring to mind that everything external is designed as a challenge. A test sent to ensure you are actually worthy of acquiring your goal and reward. Recognise them as such and you will always find a way to go through, go round, or ignore them as required.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Until you take the first step forward, failure remains reassuringly impossible.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
No one can mock your meagre achievements or inability to accomplish the simplest of tasks, if they remain figments of your imagination. You can revel, again and again, in the glory of a fairy tale doomed never to appear in reality.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
As soon as I can find the courage to put my plans to action, I will turn from being a “maybe man” into someone whose future success lies completely in his own hands.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Falling has become far more terrifying to me than rising.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
You can only see your current horizon. Every time you move nearer to your desired destination, new horizons will become clear. New, previously hidden, opportunities will come into view.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Dreaming and becoming are completely separate parts of the process. However, they are both as important as each other. Never discount how powerful your dreams are. If you cannot visualise what it is you wish to become, then the brain doesn’t have the first clue how to get you there.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
I will ask questions that are so wide and open they will feel the need to speak for a week. Then from the information that they give to me, I will mould solutions designed specifically for them.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
The vast majority of the populace would never think of setting themselves any deadlines for the achievement of their dreams. They may have a vague notion they will get older and that one day they will probably die, but it all seems a long way away, and tomorrow will bring its own share of problems and pressing issues to fill their time.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Could trying your hardest, but never being quite good enough ever be acceptable to anyone? Is that what your dreams are made of?
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Simeon had to agree that his future plans, although quite grand, were like pictures painted in fog. Nothing he could put his finger on. No dream ever remained unchanged long enough to take on any weight or substance, just a notion of something better waiting for him somewhere in the future.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Most people haven’t set themselves any course with regards to their life. They have no idea whether or not they are being blown in any useful direction whatsoever. They are just at the whim of wherever the winds of life take them.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
I’ll record what I’ve learnt on the subject of what I sell. What it actually is means little to anyone other than me, but what it does and how it helps, means everything to those who require it.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
How do I go about cataloguing my dreams?
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Moving continuously forward doesn’t necessarily get us to where we want to be, just somewhere other than where we started.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
If you have designed your last day on earth, if you have decided how you wish to be thought of on your deathbed, only then can you start to plot a course to that point, to your ideal final destination.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
It’s your own personal statement of who you want to become, based on how you wish to be remembered.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
You know, I have never met a young man who recognises the true value in this exercise, and yet I have met hundreds of old men who wished someone had shared it with them in their youth.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
I must turn myself around so that I am viewing life as my prospects see it. Only then can I start addressing their issues, help to prevent their pain, and advise on solutions to their problems.
— Chris     Murray
No one ever reached the top of a mountain by digging underneath it.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
You have your whole life to become what you wish to become. As long as we know where we are going, we can prepare ourselves for the journey. That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Can a farmer plants his seeds and then demand the crops to grow before harvest?
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
If you put in the effort and focus towards a goal, you will get there quicker than most.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
You cannot become something new without putting in the appropriate effort, can you? Just as a seed cannot grow into an ear of corn without the appropriate time, sunlight, water, and care.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Men constantly miscalculate what they can do in a day, and grossly underestimate what can be achieved in a year.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
One of the biggest problems with your average sales call is that the salesman doesn’t know what he is trying to achieve. He hasn’t worked out the end of the journey. So he sets off and just hopes he walks out with…something.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
I have set my mind to make sure I am prepared to accept success, whatever the trials ahead, whatever the work required.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
So open questions to understand. Closed questions to confirm and gain commitment.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Greeders who plunder and steal from their people - not only steal their supporters and their childrens' future, but they also smash their mindsets and create learned helplessness that ensures people stay small.
— Tony Dovale
If you wish to sell to anyone you must earn the right to do so.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
You have All it takes to be Great, See the unseen, Give the Good in your hand now to Activate that Great Grace for Greatness.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Success does not judge one man for being worthy above another. Success doesn’t choose you because of your family name or existing wealth.Success is taken by the man, who has made himself ready for its arrival. And although I am not there yet, I have come to this place to become such a man.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Time is the sole resource you gain if spent and waste if not
— VIRGIL PROFEANU
I now know that success can not choose me. It is waiting on a path that I must walk. In truth, it waits there for everyone.Many do not know where the path begins. Some search for a shortcut to the end. But the majority of the world does not even realise there is a path there at all.I have been shown the start of that path and I am ready.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
So you can speak, can you? Well, that’s going to stand you out from the rest of the crowd, isn’t it? No. Sorry, my boy. The ability to speak does not a salesman make
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
No, I’m afraid your overconfidence, as with most young men who dream of becoming successful, can quite quickly become the Achilles’ heel of your continued mediocrity
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Well, at the risk of sounding a bit harsh…I think we can safely say that your recent successes could have just as easily been achieved by a mute monkey in a tiny business suit, holding up a written explanation of whatever it was the monkey was attempting to sell
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Did you sell to them or did you simply facilitate their buying from you, hmm? Very different scenarios, my boy, very different indeed.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
You can’t know what you don’t know
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Remember this. We are always looking for problems to solve, and to solve problems we need to be ready for clues. And you will never be in the receiving frame of mind if you – never – shut - up!
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
I shall not waste any of our brief time together flattering your ego, as others have done before, with all this nonsense about skills and talents that do not help, or worse, that you do not actually possess
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
True will is wishing backed by power
— VIRGIL PROFEANU
It has been my experience that around half of those offering a product or service, in every line of business, are quite utterly useless. Some of them actually bordering on criminal. The remainder are split between two camps, the acceptable and the exceptional. Unfortunately for the average man on the street, it is incredibly difficult to recognise which is which
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
But without a need, even the finest piece of beef is merely a piece of dead bull is it not?
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Why do so many salespeople talk to customers about the product and not the result?
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Customers do not want a lecture from you and they certainly don’t want some juvenile in a bad suit forcing his wares upon them
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
You are discovering the conversation that the customer wants to have, instead of the dreadfully limiting presentation you would have given him. And in doing so, you can help him to make a truly wonderful buying decision.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Obvious? Possibly. Sometimes, common sense is only obvious once you have been shown it to be so. Only after a shortcut has been revealed is it an obvious time saver. Before that, it had remained completely unknown to everyone but the enlightened. You can’t know what you don’t know and, therefore, never seek anyone’s tutorage of the subject
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Now you learn about the greatest tool available to any salesman. I’m going to give you an introduction into something that will help customers recognise the value of your offer all by themselves.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
This next nugget of salesmanship cannot be perfected in a single afternoon. However, once you have it mastered, your competition will continuously believe you possess some mystical customer attracting formula
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
For some reason salesmen spend most of their time asking questions they already know the answers to. They rarely ask to discover anything new.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
An Appreciative inquiry Conversation is the catalyst for strengths based innovation.
— Tony Dovale
I am aware that it can be easily missed, but once you have the ability to uncover and clarify real needs – the things that really matter - you can discuss in detail how you meet each and every one
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
That’s what marks out the successful from the nearly-rans. Focusing on what makes people itch rather than continuously presenting an entire catalogue of scratches.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
You – help - people. You are an expert in your field, who genuinely helps other human beings. Take pride in that, stop hawking your wares, and get a bit of respect for your profession, and earn some from your prospects.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
It’s not how I view being a salesman. It’s how I live being a salesman.
— Chris     Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
The danger of venturing into uncharted waters is not nearly as dangerous as staying on shore, waiting for your boat to come in.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Love, affection, even attention are not things that need pursuit. If they are not given freely, openly, willingly to you by another person, then stop trying to obtain them from that person. Someone else will gladly share theirs with you.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Music is the universal language, because it is the language of the universe.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Sometimes the further away the target, the less you have to try to get there.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Rethink Your Mindset because...The view your brain builds and automatically adopts...of yourself, profoundly affects the way you think, feel and act-moment to moment, and the results you create.
— Tony Dovale
It doesn't matter where you are right now. No matter where you are, you're on the way to greatness If you desire that reality. Be present. Be grateful for the stepping stones that have you here today reflecting on your dreams. Stepping stones are a necessary part of the success process. Go into overdrive now. You can do this. No one ever made it in just one day. Each step is a part of the process. It doesn't matter what it takes! You're winning! Keep flowing all the way there. Stay up. You were born a winner!
— Sereda Aleta Dailey, How to Stop Smoking in 30 Days or Less!
The biggest problem in AFRICA, is the government/public service leaders ensure that the education system teaches them WHAT to think and NOT HOW TO THINK. IT embeds a Fixed Mindest of Learned Helplessness. We can ReThink Resilience and psycap to transform the people, but the leaders won't be too happy when the voters can think beyond learned helplessness and a go beyond a liming culture 2000 years out of date.We need to Rethink Education and culture in the digital age.
— Tony Dovale
A millionaires' mindset focus moves from posessions to feelings, once they become conscious and awake.
— Tony Dovale
We now live in a world where murderers and terrorists can cause death and mayhem, and when the time is "right" for them, they convert to normal human values, and become a global icon and saint!
— Tony Dovale
The problem with the Mindset of a fair Democracy is that it purports to be a fair and trustworthy system, but history shows clearly how the voters' trust has been constantly abused.
— Tony Dovale
The political Greeders mindset wastes resources that could transform the future of tens of millions of people and the destinies of the countries.We need to rethink Leadership and politics.
— Tony Dovale
I saw the figure of 178 Billion wasted/stolen from the people of a country by its corrupt and inept government. Surely such a figure could truly transfom and change the entire country; education, health, shooling, entrepreneurial environment... of millions of people, rather than be secreted away as a few more 0000's in global bank accounts for the greeders.We need to Rethink Public service, values, ethics and leadership.
— Tony Dovale
What the present day greeders don't understand... is that your character, lack of integrity, low morals, no ethics and devious actions are being RECORED indelibly for the global public to view for next few hundred years...on the internet TATOO!.Your childrens', childrens', childrens' childrens' childrens' childrens' childrens - will read on the web of your low-intelligence, devious thievery, corruption, and inept leadership.. And they will cry with shame... because their ancestors seemed to behave no better than greedy Graboons.We need to Rethink leadership
— Tony Dovale
Most Leadership is Greedership dressed up in sheeps' clothing pretending to care for humanity.
— Tony Dovale
The biggest problem in AFRICA, is the government/public service leaders ensure that the education system teaches people WHAT to think, and NOT HOW TO THINK. It embeds a Fixed Mindest of Learned Helplessness. We can ReThink Resilience and psycap to transform the people, but the leaders won't be too happy when the voters can think beyond learned helplessness and a go beyond a limiting culture 2000 years out of date.We need to Rethink Education and culture in the digital age.
— Tony Dovale
Until Africa changes it's Mindset - It will forever be a "basket case" looking for international support, funding and charity.We need to Rethink Innovation
— Tony Dovale
When I feel threatened, vulnerable, or insecure, whether it from simply walking into a room of unknown people, meeting someone for the first time, an unexpected or expected confrontation, or doing something new, I affirm in my mind (over and over): There is no danger, there is no threat. From there, the discomfort lessens and I become open for discovery and adventure.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
When we procrastinate, we also put a hold on happiness.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Holding on to negative feelings and past circumstances is like placing a lock on your soul.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
We all judge. But when I realize that judgmental thoughts and actions are merely my primitive nature trying to "protect" me from being one-upped or making sure I am not one-upped, it makes it easier to laugh at my silliness. �
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Transition and change - guaranteed to cause anxiety. That anxiety shows itself in physical and behavioral ways, but also with thoughts (sometimes really crazy ones). This is the (primitive/automatic) brain's way of keeping us safe from the danger of change. We end up getting so involved with the feeling and thoughts of anxiety, we get distracted from the "danger". If we trust the anxiety then our primitive brain has succeeded in "protecting" us from the danger. I suggest not believing, trusting, or taking direction from the anxiety and continue your pursuits forward. Then, you will be amazed at your ability to attract and reveal your true capabilities, your light, your magic.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Life's journey is peppered with many bumps and pitfalls. If we make mountains out of each one, we will get nowhere.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Accept the good, however big or small, with no strings attached.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
You cannot truly love yourself if you are constantly surrounded by clutter, chaos and bitterness. The time has come for you to de-clutter your mind and your environment.
— Winsome Campbell-Green, The Secret Rules Of Self-Love: How To Love Yourself, Overcome The Loneliness Of Being Single, And Achieve Happiness
Being the best is rarely within our reach. Doing our best is always within our reach.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Although we are urged to walk in another man's shoes, I think, first, we have to walk in another pair of our own shoes. Doing that will free up a lot, including our ability to be more compassionate and less judgmental.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Perseverance is the enemy of doubt.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
The future depends on what you do today.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The past is always tense, the future perfect.
— Zadie Smith
Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
— Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.
— George Orwell, 1984
When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
When I pronounce the word Future,the first syllable already belongs to the past.When I pronounce the word Silence,I destroy it.
— Wisława Szymborska, Poems New and Collected
The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.
— William Gibson, Pattern Recognition
I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.
— Beryl Markham, West with the Night
Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons eat their foes for breakfast with a nice cup of Lapsang souchong, someone needs to tell their bits of overlapping narrative. There's magic in that. It's in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict. From the mundane to the profound. You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows what they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift. Your sister may be able to see the future, but you yourself can shape it, boy. Do not forget that... there are many kinds of magic, after all.
— Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.
— Barbara Taylor Bradford, Unexpected Blessings
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
— Albert Einstein
Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.
— Noam Chomsky
The future is already here – it's just not evenly distri
— William Gibson
People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
— Nikola Tesla
It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.
— Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye
The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Rant
A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.
— Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
And I realized that there's a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.
— Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything
I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expectation. I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, and focus on the whole, not the pieces. I have learned to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present because that is where I am destined to live.
— David Levithan, Every Day
I don't fuck much with the past but I fuck plenty with the future.
— Patti Smith
Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.
— Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller
You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is that it touches cognition. That you are having a breakdown does not mean that your life isn't a mess. If there are issues you have successfully skirted or avoided for years, they come cropping back up and stare you full in the face, and one aspect of depression is a deep knowledge that the comforting doctors who assure you that your judgment is bad are wrong. You are in touch with the real terribleness of your life. You can accept rationally that later, after the medication sets in, you will be better able to deal with the terribleness, but you will not be free of it. When you are depressed, the past and future are absorbed entirely by the present moment, as in the world of a three-year-old. You cannot remember a time when you felt better, at least not clearly; and you certainly cannot imagine a future time when you will feel better.
— Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.
— Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems.
— Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Choice
I can't deceive myself that out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that character is fate, nothing is real, past or future, when you are alone in your room with the clock ticking loudly into the false cheerful brilliance of the electric light. And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide.
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
The future is just wasted on some people.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward—toward what?
— Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters
It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.
— H.G. Wells
The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
— Gaylord Nelson
I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.
— Arthur C. Clarke
She sees things — things that might happen, things that are coming. But it’s very subjective. The future isn’t set in stone. Things change.
— Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga
No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet, so deadly sad, that to read one line of it would dissolve my courage and break down my energy. The last was an awful blank, something like then world when the deluge was gone by.
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
You can tell the future?''More like the future mugs me from time to time.' Rachel said'I speak prophecies. The oracle spirit kind of hijacks me once in a while, and speaks important stuff that doesn't make any sense to anybody. But yeah, the prophecies tell the future.
— Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.
— Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.
— Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
I still don't know what it really means to grow up. However, if I happen to meet you, one day in the future, by then, I want to become someone you can be proud to know.
— Makoto Shinkai, 5 Centimeters per Second
At this rate, we'll never get to the future.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
— George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss