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"Failure is never final and success is never-ending. Success is a journey, not a destination."

- Robert Schuller

"Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked."

- Lord Chesterfield

“Don't try to tell the customer what he wants. If you want to be smart, be smart in the shower. Then get out, go to work and serve the customer!”

- Gene Buckley, President of Sikorsky Aircraft

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”
- Alvin Toffler

“It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
- Albert Einstein

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
- Confucius

“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."
- Mark Twain

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
- Plato

"You can predict a person's future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with."
- Earl Nightingale

“If you a make a sale you make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.”
- Jim Rohn

“Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.”
   - Mike Ditka

“Nobody remembers who came in second."
   - Charles Schulz

“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.”

   - Leo Rosten

“He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.”
- Chinese Proverb

“Here’s Why You Should Never Give Up!
21 publishers rejected M*A*S*H,
23 publishers rejected Dr. Seuss's first book,
Henry Ford went broke five times before succeeding,
Michael Jordan's high school basketball team cut him."
- Unknown

“Keep your sales pipeline full by prospecting continuously. Always have more people to see than you have time to see them.”
- Brian Tracy

"Performance, and performance alone, dictates the predator in any food chain."
- A US Navy SEAL Team saying

"The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!"
- Earl Nightingale

"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential...these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."

- Eddie Robinson

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."
- Socrates

"One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline — and that’s the important half, for without discipline you wouldn’t know what to do with luck."
- Carl Zuckmeyer

"When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
- Alexander Graham Bell

“Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there."
- Josh Billings

"Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered when others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck."
- Grenville Klieser

Actually, a little seasonal humor instead...

Santa Claus slides down the chimney because it soots him.

Helpers at the North Pole are called subordinate clauses.

You really need to get spruced up to sell Christmas trees.

At this time of year, crossing a setter and a pointer gives you a pointsetter.

Santa only swims at the North Pool.

The Pole Vault is where Santa keeps all the presents.

- The end...and not too soon.

"To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you...don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach."

- W. Clement Stone

“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 someone else."

- Chinese Proverb

"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of."

- Anonymous

"You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures."
- Charles C. Noble

“Approach each customer with the idea of helping him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service.”
- Brian Tracy

“An average person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.”

- Brian Tracy

"The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones."

- William Somerset Maugham

“Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor.”
- Brian Tracy

"It is not because things are different that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
- Anonymous

"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature."

- John D. Rockefeller

"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it - but all that had gone before."

- Jacob Riis

“You keep customers by delivering on your promises, fulfilling your commitments and continually investing in the quality of your relationships.”

- Brian Tracy

“There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.”

- Ken Olsen, President, Digital Equipment, 1977

“I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change."

- Jim Rohn

“Although at the moment they may be equal in their lack of a real answer, the man who replies "I'll find out," is much more valuable to his employer, his neighbor, and to himself than the man who replies "l don't know."

- Anonymous

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

- Lou Holtz

"Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune."

- Jim Rohn

"Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results."

- James Allen

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; its when you had everything to do, and you've done it."

- Margaret Thatcher

“He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.”

- Leonardo da Vinci

“We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success; we often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.”

- Samuel Smiles

"The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges"

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Keep away from people that try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

- Mark Twain

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us."
- Anonymous

Western Union internal memo, dated 1876

“Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
- Ben Franklin

"If you talk about it, it's a dream. If you envision it, it's possible. But if you schedule it, it's real."

- Anthony Robbins

“Time goes by so fast...people go in and out of your life, you must never miss the opportunity to tell these people, how much they mean to you.”

- from the last episode of “Cheers”

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

- Albert Einstein

"Action is the foundational key to all success. Knowing is not enough! Lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know."

- Tony Robbins

Do you love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."
- Benjamin Franklin

“Time is limited, so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have just one chance to live this particular day right, and to string my days together into a life of action and purpose.”
- Lance Armstrong

“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.”
- Andrew Carnegie

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."
- William Arthur Ward

"Find out where the people are going and get there first."
– Mark Twain

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
- Henry Ford

"Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed...To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life...One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated."
- Thomas Moore

"Opportunity is missed by most people, because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
- Thomas Edison

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."
- Helen Keller

“It is the clock that measures us, that silent witness that keeps our going in and our coming out and relentlessly records our every movement."

- Evelyn Underhill

“Take care of people, give them a good product, good price, good service, treat them as you would a friend by keeping in touch and they’ll come back and buy cars again and again and tell their friends too. It’s so simple."

- Joe Girard

"A person is flying a hot air balloon and realizes that they are lost.

They reduce their height and spot a person on the ground below. They lower the balloon further and shout, “Excuse me. Can you help me? I promised my friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.”

The person on the ground says, “Yes. You are in a hot air balloon, hovering approximately 30 feet above this field. You are between 40 and 42 degrees North Latitude and between 58 and 60 degrees West Longitude.”

“You must be an underwriter?” says the balloonist. “I am,” replies the person on the ground, “how did you know?”

“Well,” says the balloonist, “everything you told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is, I’m still lost.”

The person on the ground says, “You must be a loan officer?” “I am,” replies the balloonist, “how did you know?”

“Well,” says the person on the ground, “you don’t know where you are, or where you are going. You have made a promise you can’t keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. The fact is, you are in exactly the same position as you were before we met, but now it is somehow my fault.”

- Author Unknown

I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost more than 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life...and that is why I succeed.”
– Michael Jordan

"One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives."
– Mark Twain

“Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care”
- Theodore Roosevelt

“ H in the heart of your sales career is honesty

E is ego and empathy

A is your attitude toward you, your prospects, and profession

R is for physical, mental, and spiritual reserve

T is for tough – the toughest thing is love

...the heart of your sales career is your very own and if your heart is right your sales career will be right.”
- Zig Ziglar - "Secrets of Closing the Sale”

“I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to be.”
- Carl Jung


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If you want to be smart, be smart in the shower. Then get out, go to work and serve the customer!” - Gene Buckley, President of Sikorsky Aircraft “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” - Alvin Toffler “It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." - Albert Einstein “No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. - Confucius “A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain." - Mark Twain "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." - Plato "You can predict a person's future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with." - Earl Nightingale “If you a make a sale you make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.” - Jim Rohn “Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.” - Mike Ditka “Nobody remembers who came in second." - Charles Schulz “I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.” - Leo Rosten “He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.” - Chinese Proverb “Here’s Why You Should Never Give Up! 21 publishers rejected MASH, 23 publishers rejected Dr. Seuss's first book, Henry Ford went broke five times before succeeding, Michael Jordan's high school basketball team cut him." - Unknown “Keep your sales pipeline full by prospecting continuously. Always have more people to see than you have time to see them.”* - Brian Tracy "Performance, and performance alone, dictates the predator in any food chain." - A US Navy SEAL Team saying "The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!" - Earl Nightingale "The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential...these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence." - Eddie Robinson "Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for." - Socrates "One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline — and that’s the important half, for without discipline you wouldn’t know what to do with luck." - Carl Zuckmeyer "When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." - Alexander Graham Bell “Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there." - Josh Billings "Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered when others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck." - Grenville Klieser Actually, a little seasonal humor instead... Santa Claus slides down the chimney because it soots him. Helpers at the North Pole are called subordinate clauses. You really need to get spruced up to sell Christmas trees. At this time of year, crossing a setter and a pointer gives you a pointsetter. Santa only swims at the North Pool. The Pole Vault is where Santa keeps all the presents. - The end...and not too soon. "To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you...don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach." - W. Clement Stone “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 someone else." - Chinese Proverb "Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of." - Anonymous "You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures." - Charles C. Noble “Approach each customer with the idea of helping him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service.” - Brian Tracy “An average person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.” - Brian Tracy "The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones." - William Somerset Maugham “Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor.” - Brian Tracy "It is not because things are different that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." - Anonymous "I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature." - John D. Rockefeller "When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it - but all that had gone before." - Jacob Riis “You keep customers by delivering on your promises, fulfilling your commitments and continually investing in the quality of your relationships.” - Brian Tracy “There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.” - Ken Olsen, President, Digital Equipment, 1977 “I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change." - Jim Rohn “Although at the moment they may be equal in their lack of a real answer, the man who replies "I'll find out," is much more valuable to his employer, his neighbor, and to himself than the man who replies "l don't know." - Anonymous "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." - Lou Holtz "Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune." - Jim Rohn "Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results." - James Allen "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt "Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; its when you had everything to do, and you've done it." - Margaret Thatcher “He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.” - Leonardo da Vinci “We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success; we often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.” - Samuel Smiles "The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges" - Martin Luther King Jr. "Keep away from people that try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” - Mark Twain "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." - Anonymous Western Union internal memo, dated 1876 “Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently." - Henry Ford "If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." - Ben Franklin "If you talk about it, it's a dream. If you envision it, it's possible. But if you schedule it, it's real." - Anthony Robbins “Time goes by so fast...people go in and out of your life, you must never miss the opportunity to tell these people, how much they mean to you.” - from the last episode of “Cheers” "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein "Action is the foundational key to all success. Knowing is not enough! Lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know." - Tony Robbins Do you love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." - Benjamin Franklin “Time is limited, so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have just one chance to live this particular day right, and to string my days together into a life of action and purpose.” - Lance Armstrong “People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.” - Andrew Carnegie “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." - William Arthur Ward "Find out where the people are going and get there first." – Mark Twain "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young." - Henry Ford "Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed...To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life...One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated." - Thomas Moore "Opportunity is missed by most people, because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing." - Abraham Lincoln "Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." - Helen Keller “It is the clock that measures us, that silent witness that keeps our going in and our coming out and relentlessly records our every movement." - Evelyn Underhill “Take care of people, give them a good product, good price, good service, treat them as you would a friend by keeping in touch and they’ll come back and buy cars again and again and tell their friends too. It’s so simple." - Joe Girard "A person is flying a hot air balloon and realizes that they are lost. They reduce their height and spot a person on the ground below. They lower the balloon further and shout, “Excuse me. Can you help me? I promised my friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.” The person on the ground says, “Yes. You are in a hot air balloon, hovering approximately 30 feet above this field. You are between 40 and 42 degrees North Latitude and between 58 and 60 degrees West Longitude.” “You must be an underwriter?” says the balloonist. “I am,” replies the person on the ground, “how did you know?” “Well,” says the balloonist, “everything you told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is, I’m still lost.” The person on the ground says, “You must be a loan* officer?” “I am,” replies the balloonist, “how did you know?”* “Well,” says the person on the ground, “you don’t know where you are, or where you are going. You have made a promise you can’t keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. The fact is, you are in exactly the same position as you were before we met, but now it is somehow my fault.” - Author Unknown I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost more than 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life...and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan "One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives." – Mark Twain “Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care” - Theodore Roosevelt “ H in the heart of your sales career is honesty E is ego and empathy A is your attitude toward you, your prospects, and profession R is for physical, mental, and spiritual reserve T is for tough – the toughest thing is love ...the heart of your sales career is your very own and if your heart is right your sales career will be right.” - Zig Ziglar - "Secrets of Closing the Sale” “I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to be.” - Carl Jung Do you like this website? Tell your friends about it!