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"You can't plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesn't get done."
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"Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."
"Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly."
"Life is just repeated attempts at trying to do better."
"All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads and sows itself anew."
"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."
"If you invest nothing, the reward is worth little."
"The whole world's effort of working hard goes to waste. Just as the bull [that turns the wheels on the oil mill] gets a piece of oil-cake (as a reward), the wife gives the husband a piece of handvo (savory lentil and rice cake), and so the work continues. All day long, one is producing like the bull in the oil mill."
"The bigger the 'flat' [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the 'flat' is worth six hundred thousand, then he has to work six times as hard. If it is three hundred thousand, he has to work three times over. One simply has to keep on working hard, doesn't he?"
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"Most people haven't set themselves any course with regards to their life. They have no idea whether or not they are being blown in any useful direction whatsoever. They are just at the whim of wherever the winds of life take them."
"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."
"If you don't earn their trust at the beginning, they sure as hell won't trust you with their money at the end."
"Why do customers (and that includes you and me) find it so difficult to recall more than a couple of occasions when they felt that they were treated exceptionally by the salespeople who dealt with them?"
"In the past, I have bargained myself away, believing that price was more important than cost, quality, reliability, or reputation. In the past, I was clearly wrong."
"If I can make you feel the same way that I feel about my product or service we'll have a meaningful conversation about it and how it can help. The trouble is that most sales people don't feel anything. Nothing at all."
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