“I can’t and won’t promise you magic sales fairy dust or the Jedi Mind Trick for salespeople – they simply don’t exist.”
“We all need salespeople who deliver value that wasn’t there before they arrived.”
“Don t just create art to make money. Make money so you can create more art. (Exchange any words you want for create art and see if it fits).”
“Your target market are more bothered about whether what you sell will get them promoted, sacked, recognised, accepted, praised or laid.”
“Don’t tell me you’re passionate about your job – show me that you’re passionate about helping people like me.”
“We all need salespeople who understand the problem and can deliver a solution that works brilliantly for both sides.”
“If what you sell doesn’t help me then why are you knocking on my door?”
“Judge Woodward envisioned the new Detroit as an urban Arcadia of interlocking hexagons. Each wheel was to be separate yet united. This dream never quite came to be. Planning is for the world s great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.”
“[Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite.”
“All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the United States averaged 81 percent.”
“of the few certainties I ve come across in life, one of them is that when a person says money is no object, the opposite is most likely true. Money is the only object—or will be.”
“IF it s money, sex, stupidy everyone is one the ride fast going without thinking.”
“Would you produce, create and bring value to the world if it weren t for money? Or would you veg out? The necessity of money keeps people relevant and active. The paradox is that people who stay relevant and active make money.”
“g*d wept, but that mattered little to an unbelieving age ... for there began to rise in America in 1876 a new capitalism & a new enslavement of labor --w.e.b. dubois”
“You could become rich if you were born financially poor, But you can t stay rich if you are poor minded.”
“Money is the alienated essence of man s labor and life; and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.”
“In the modern world, however, love has another enemy more dangerous than religion, and that is the gospel of work and economic success. It is generally held, especially in America, that a man should not allow love to interfere with his career, and that if he does, he is silly. But in this as in all human matters a balance is necessary.”