A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.
- Leo Burnett

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
- Benjamin Franklin

The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato

It's astonishing what a great quotation will do for you to start any day. No matter the business organization: Data management, manufacturing business, or simply plain sales. Everyone needs motivation.

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
- Pat Riley

An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager.
- Bob Nelson

The publishing industry has been slowing down for several decades because of the economics of the book business, which demand guaranteed sales, meaning an ever-increasing reliance on bestselling authors and formula books and a diminishment of initiatives for new authors.
- Richard Curtis

In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance.
-Bo Bennett

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
- Sam Ewing

Nothing will work unless you do.
- Maya Angelou