Anybody can write a book. But writing it well and making it sell – that’s the hard part.

Moving continuously forward doesn’t necessarily get us to where we want to be, just somewhere other than where we started.

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

Rejection is part of the journey toward success, so don’t be insulted or get upset when it happens. In fact, get excited about how you just got closer to your “Yes!

I see what I have to become and I recognise the time it will take.

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...

As a small business owner, you must sell or you will go out of business. Therefore, you must prospect (it’s an integral part of the process). You have to bring people to your business, not...

Enthusiasm is that certain something that makes us stand out, pulls us out of the mediocre common places, and turns us into powerful influencers.

Success does not judge one man for being worthy above another. Success doesn’t choose you because of your family name or existing wealth.

It’s your own personal statement of who you want to become, based on how you wish to be remembered.

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...

I would like to express how I regard salespeople in general. I consider they embody a unified and diverse aggregate of the most able individuals in society and its workplace. In any economy, they are...

California is responsible for selling, trading and distributing large amounts of shark fins that come from all over the world.

I want to bill Billings one penny at a time.” He died with five cents to his name. I was named after him—fifty years after him.

Trust me. If you do not decide where you are heading, and refuse to take the appropriate action, you will end up being shaped into what others would have you become. Then any change will...

I have been like a mediocre concert pianist playing in front of a tone-deaf family, who applaud out of duty rather than for accomplishment.

Setting proper expectations from the moment you meet a potential client will reduce stress and enable all parties to work together, rather than struggling contentiously through the process.

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...

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.

Successful selling begins with listening. Your job when you are in front of the prospect is to ask questions and then listen to the answers. Take copious notes about what they tell you; what they...

The secret to your future is hidden in your daily routine. You have to be self—disciplined to spend your time wisely.

Let us learn things in the time they will take to learn

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...

But without a need, even the finest piece of beef is merely a piece of dead bull is it not?

One thing you’ll learn when you’re in the business of selling utter shite to the Great British Public is that there’s really no bottom to where they’ll go. Shit food, shit TV, shit bands, shit...

Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell you.

Now as far as the organization selling drugs, no. Individuals selling drugs is something else.

People submit too easily to change from others. And yet, for some reason, whenever they consider changing themselves, the focus is always on what they are giving up, never what they are about to gain

No longer will I measure myself against competitors, who don’t even know that a race is being run. From now on, I will measure myself against the man in front of me. I will measure...

A crucial factor when achieving great success in the real estate industry, or any industry for that matter, is teamwork. Unity is a place of power.

You truly help people with the things that you sell. Once you are aware of that vital piece of information every demonstration, every presentation, every transaction will be delivered with a light shining from your...

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

This book does not exist. And if that doesn’t deter you from buying it, then I’m also selling frozen alien flesh, a patch of Bigfoot’s fur, and a patch of land on Pluto (limit one...

Never put the future of the deal in the customer’s hands.

Could be an amazing product, sell like condoms at a high school prom, donuts at a police convention, sunscreen on a Caribbean crush ship.

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.

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...

When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made.

Social media is not just a spoke on the wheel of marketing. It’s becoming the way entire bicycles are built.

I need to condense my adrenaline, carbonate it, sweeten it, and sell it as an energy drink.

Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn’t you would already possess it, would you not?

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...

If you haven’t done much giving in your life-try it and see how you feel afterwards.

Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.

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...

For some reason salesmen spend most of their time asking questions they already know the answers to. They rarely ask to discover anything new.

No, even the best product ain’t gonna sell itself.

Forget the Golden Rule-Go Platinum. It simply states, “Treat people like they’d like to be treated.

I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out.

No one ever reached the top of a mountain by digging underneath it.