“The best salespeople are not salespeople, they’re people who’ve not only bought the product, but also bought into the idea of the company and the brand.”
“I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important. The company starts valuing the great salesmen, because they’re the ones who can move the needle on revenues, not the product engineers and designers. So the salespeople end up running the company.”
“Know this about yourself: there is only one reason professional salespeople lose orders-- they are outsold.”
“For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain.”
“They’re not women’s clothes. They’re my clothes. I bought them.”
“..the best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so says the legend”