"Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early."
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Chris Murray quotes (page 2 of 3)
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"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 for them."
"The future is a fabulous place to bury your success."
"Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things."
"It has nothing to do with the time being right or wrong. Storms just happen."
"Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path."
"Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would already possess it, would you not?"
"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 not be made for your benefit but for theirs."
"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"
"You may have an overall target to achieve with each prospect, but if you are going to have an ideal outcome for each call, should you not also have a tolerable outcome to fall back on? Something you are willing to put up with if things don't go completely to plan, but something that still moves things forward ever so slightly?"
"The U.S. Army has recently removed the cross from the insignia worn by chaplains. In its place is a sun with its rays, symbolizing the divine in all things."
"Ready? No one is ever ready, my boy. But some do what they plan to do and some never will. The difference between the two is that the first group understand that they need to start somewhere, so they do so. Straight away"
"Nobody ever kicked a dog wagging its tail"
"In short, the difference between you and your doctor is that he has a well-designed reputation and you do not."
"Until you take the first step forward, failure remains reassuringly impossible."
"No one can mock your meagre achievements or inability to accomplish the simplest of tasks, if they remain figments of your imagination. You can revel, again and again, in the glory of a fairy tale doomed never to appear in reality."
"Why do so many salespeople talk to customers about the product and not the result?"
"It's not how I view being a salesman. It's how I live being a salesman."
"And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save them all from the charlatans and the nearly-men."
"That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever"