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"You " help - people. You are an expert in your field, who genuinely helps other human beings. Take pride in that, stop hawking your wares, and get a bit of respect for your profession, and earn some from your prospects."
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"Any profession you engage in, no matter how profitable, unless it is truly helpful and good for others, is a crime against your soul, and the world."

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"That's what marks out the successful from the nearly-rans. Focusing on what makes people itch rather than continuously presenting an entire catalogue of scratches."

"22% of current business-to-business salespeople will be replaced by search engines within the next five years."

"Men constantly miscalculate what they can do in a day, and grossly underestimate what can be achieved in a year."

"Customers do not want a lecture from you and they certainly don't want some juvenile in a bad suit forcing his wares upon them."

"Sometime in the future, when business slumps and there appears to be no solution in sight, you will hear others moaning about and blaming the things that are completely out of their control, wasting hour after hour on elements, which cannot be changed. Meanwhile, you, my boy, you will be focusing your efforts on the only thing that matters. The response which ensures you reach your destination."

"If you sound like a contestant from The Apprentice or if the customer believes that they are being sold AT, you have already failed."

"We must design how we wish to be perceived, and then we must work even harder to continuously recreate and re-evaluate that perception."

"This is how you must be. You must become as evangelical about your promised outcome as he is about his. You must believe that you, and you alone, have the solution to your prospects problems. Even if they do not recognise those problems themselves."

"Asking the appropriate questions means understanding exactly what your customer is trying to achieve."
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