1. The Purpose of a business is to find a customer.
- Peter F. Drucker
2. Marketing is a contest for people’s attention
- Anonymous
3. Selling
- Ab...
Business Skills
1. Selling door to door: If no one stops the dog from barking within 15 seconds, no one will answer the door.
2. Selling door to door: After knocking, stand at least four feet back from the door.
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Quotes
1. The easiest cheap way to dramatically increase sales:
Call your customers.
Or write to them.
2. Be helpful:
I know that times might be tough for you. Is there anything I can do to pitch...
Quotes
1. There are six peaks in Europe higher than the Matterhorn.
Name one.
Get Ink.
- Harry beckwith
2. The difference between PR and publicity:
Publicity is the act of getting ink. Publici...
Quotes
1. A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.
- Confucius
2. The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because th...
Quotes
1. Discrimination is the capacity to discern what is important.
- Warren Bennis
2. Shit happens. That ’s what they pay you for.
- Tom Peters
3. .... Asshole management is not inevitable....
Quotes
1. The men who have changed the universe have never gotten there by working on the leaders, but rather by moving the masses. Working on the leaders is the method of intrigue and only leads to secondar...
Quotes
1. If you want happiness for an hour - take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day - go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year - inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime - help so...
Quotes
1. Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
- Michel de Montaigne
3. I ...
Quotes
1. Don’t worry about finding inspiration. It comes eventually: Writer’s block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you should...