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“Life is a series of sales situations, and the answer is no if you don't ask.”
Patricia Fripp
“Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.”
W. Clement Stone
“Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.”
Zig Ziglar
“For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.”
“So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.”
Dorthea Brande
“If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.”
Henry Kissinger
“Properly practiced creativity MUST result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.”
William Bernbach
“In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance.”
Bo Bennett
“Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.”
Nicholas Sparks
“I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach.”
David Ogilvy
