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"If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action. Instead of becoming sidetracked by distractions and diversions, your time is focused on a straight line from start to finish."
"Most companies, 97 percent or more, put all their focus on clever advertising and clever taglines to get people to buy average or mediocre products. You need to back off and offer a really good product or service."
"Your mind will always try to complete what it pictures, so always picture success no matter haw badly things are going at the moment."
"The product has to work. It has to be a good product. An enormous number of them are all hype with no value at all. People get into them because they want to make a lot of quick, easy money."
"When you remain angry with another person, you give away your emotional control to that person each time you think of him or here. You allow him or her to control your emotions at long distance. By not forgiving, you allow that person to run your emotional life, exactly as if he or she were right there with you and the situation was occurring all over again."
"Do one small thing immediately - often this is all you need to do to get started."
"Your ability to get along well with others will determine your happiness and success as much as any other factor."
"People love fast. When you're fast people think you're smart, think your products are of higher quality, think your management is of higher quality, think that you're worth more and they're willing to pay more money for it. So, I'm really big into speed."
"The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on."
"The difference between successes and failures in life is simply that winners take the first step."
"I think the critical thing is the product or service that you're trying to raise money for. And probably the best description of that, people should say when they hear, "This is what I want to do. This is what I want to bring to the market." They should say, "Gee! That's a great idea" or "Gee! Why hasn't somebody else thought of that before? Well, that's an incredible idea!" In other words, the more a person is delighted, or astonished, or happy with your product, or service, or idea, the more happy they are to put up money for it."
"Refuse to let the fear of rejection hold you back. Remember, rejection is never personal."
"It's astonishing how many business owners are terrified of selling. Salespeople who see the most people a day are the highest paid regardless of the economy."
"All the businesses from the beginning of history have struggled with product development (assuming there is a market, doing the market testing and so on). But now they start with customer development. Get the customer who says, "Yes. I want that. I need it. I wanna use it. I'll pay for it." And then you go back and work with your engineers. It is changing the world!"
"Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won."
"Investigate carefully before you invest. Spend as much time researching the investment as you spend earning the money."
"Treat objections as requests for further information."
"The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work."
"The purpose of time management and getting more done in less time is to enable you to spend more face time with the people you care about and doing the things that give you the greatest amount of joy in life."
"A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear."