#sales

PALATABLE CRITICISM: In a performance review, don't offer more than three criticisms. That's all an employee can digest. ↗

— Nancy Humphries

#management #sales #training #business

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#else #every #mad #plumber #salesman

My hardcover sales are 17% down in books but up 400% in electronics. ↗

— Lisa See

#down #electronics #hardcover #sales #up

What he wasn't so good at was manipulating the internal states of other humans, getting them to see things his way, do things for him. His baseline attitude toward other humans wass that they could all just go fuck themselves and that he was not going to expend any effort whatsoever getting them to change the way they thought. This was probably rooted in a belief that hed been inculcated to him from the get-go: that there was an objective reality, which all people worth talking to could observe and understand, and that there was no point in arguing about anything that could be so observed and so understood. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#sales #attitude

Resilience is not what happens to you. It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you. ↗

— Jeffrey Gitomer

#gitomer #sales #attitude

I just acquired a choir. I bought it for a song.
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— Jarod Kintz

#buy #choir #consumption #deal #funny