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Solomon Burke

"We had some problems - my children were kidnapped during that time, and it just changed my whole way of thinking, from being in show business and everything else."

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"We had some problems - my children were kidnapped during that time, and it just changed my whole way of thinking, from being in show business and everything else."

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"Let your customers and prospects recommend you to each other and let you competition wish they were you. That is our mission."

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"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."

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"If you don't earn their trust at the beginning, they sure as hell won't trust you with their money at the end."

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"It's not how I view being a salesman. It's how I live being a salesman."

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"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?"

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"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."

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"All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it."

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"Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car."

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"Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion."

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"It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket."

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"Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability."
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"We were grooving, at that point, in the same direction, but remember, Roy Hamilton and myself were going into a path and a direction that had no programming."
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"Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time."
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"If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Black community, with our own McDonald's, with our own Kentucky Fried Chickens, it was gonna be a great move."
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