quotes by Salesman Quotes

“Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.”

“When management and labor (employer and employee) both understand they are all on the same side, then each will prosper more.”

“Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.”

“Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste.”

“When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they'll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don't.”

“Setting goals helps bring your future into your present and the present is the only time we can take action.”

“Keep trying. It's only from the valley that the mountain seems high.”

“Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.”

“Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.”

“Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come.”

“A goal properly set is halfway reached.”

“I'm a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word 'grow'.”

“You will achieve your grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day.”

“All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.”

“Great quotes make the light bulb go off in my mind. If you're like me, you'll jump at the chance to bypass all the churning and scoop the cream right off the top ~ that is what quotes are . . . the cream of our learning!”

“Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.”

“If you can dream it, you can achieve it.”

“When you plan and prepare carefully, you can legitimately expect to have success in your efforts. An optimistic, positive mind is far more likely to come up with creative solutions than a mind that dwells on setbacks and difficulties. Bottom line: expect success and you can achieve it!”

“I will live this day as if it is my last. …I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, Yesterday’s defeats, yesterday’s aches of the heart, for why should I throw good after bad?”

“It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.”

“A smile is your greatest social asset.”

“Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.”

“The past is your LESSON. The present is your GIFT. The future is your MOTIVATION.”

“You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.”

“Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.”

“Habits are funny things. What's funny, or rather tragic, is that bad habits are so predictable and avoidable. Despite this, there are people by the millions who insist on acquiring habits that are bad, expensive, and create problems. The habit they weren't going to get, got them!”

“Now's the best time you'll ever have in life to get ahead!”

“Most x-rated films are advertised as "adult entertaintment,"for "mature adults," when in reality they are juvenile entertainment for immature and insecure people.”

“Positive thinking will let you use the abilities, training and experience you have.”

“With definite goals you release your own power, and things start happening.”

“The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work.”

“I would rather train someone and lose them, than not train them and keep them”

“Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.”

“Far too many people make promises they can never keep. They may have the best intentions in the world to keep their promise-but if they have not made a plan to keep it, they will not be able to do it.”

“Already, it is later than you think for your earthly life at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities.”

“The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything.”

“The height of my goals will not hold me in awe, though I may stumble often before they are reached.”

“A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.”

“Of all the 'attitudes' we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.”

“My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.”

“By the mile it's a trial, but by the inch it's a cinch.”

“I wouldn't say 'most' people are prone to negativity. I think it's probably that most people allow negativity to color their thinking, depending on circumstances, but I also believe most people make the necessary efforts to return to positive thinking as quickly as possible.”

“I will walk where failures fear to walk.”

“Goals are the links in the chain that connect activity to accomplishment.”

“Never has there been a map, however carefully executed to detail and scale, which has carried its owner over even one inch of ground. Never has there been a parchment of law, however fair, which prevented one crime. Never has there been a scroll, even such as the one I hold, which so much as a penny or produced a single word of acclamation. Action, alone, is the tinder which ignites the map, the parchment, this scroll, my plans, my goals, into a living force. Action is the food and drink which will nourish my success. I will act now.”

“I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids.”

“Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!”

“Circumstances don't create character. They reveal character.”

“Happiness is like a kiss, in order to get any good out of it, you have to give it to someone else.”

“The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.”