Influence Quotes - Page 8

Remember: when you walk into a DIY store to buy a drill, you don’t want the drill. Your end goal is to make a hole and, in order to achieve this, you have to buy the drill.

Your target market are more bothered about whether what you sell will get them promoted, sacked, recognised, accepted, praised or laid.

Don’t tell me you’re passionate about your job – show me that you’re passionate about helping people like me.

If what you sell doesn’t help me then why are you knocking on my door?

We all need salespeople with humility, honesty, integrity, empathy and an old-fashioned work ethic that ensures the job gets done.

Ignore the people who say that the sales industry needs to become professionalised: it already has.

We all need salespeople who help people with the same enthusiasm shown by a small child describing the best Christmas present EVER

Get up in the morning on a mission to save prospective clients from the shabby, ill-fitting, overpriced and worthless alternatives that those charlatans - who are your competition - are trying to get away with flogging them.

The salesperson you’d ideally like to be and the salesperson you’d like to encounter as a customer should roughly be the same, shouldn’t they?

Salespeople who think that it’s all about price aren’t required: If it can be sold on the internet at the lowest price, you can take the huge cost of a sales team out of the equation.

Money can bring the children into places of power and influence

When your pipeline is full – with business coming out of your ears – the notion of people asking for a discount will sound hilarious, because you’ll already be at capacity

We need conscious entertainment that engage and influence its consumer to rational thinking.

The harbour of influence is richer in the cemeteries where people are buried with their music on their tongues unsung. Don't leave your potentials untouched!

Israelmore Ayivor

Every man whose tastes have been allowed to develop in wrong directions, or in whom the best tastes have failed of higher perfection, loses thereby from the inner joy and outer value of his whole life. Every good taste is a source and guarantee of happy healthy hours and days, and thus of the enrichment and elevation of life. A reasonable capacity to appreciate music and art quite suffices to enrich life and exercise a wholesome influence upon character. The taste for good reading is inseparable from a taste for good thinking.

Edward O. Sisson

Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.

Led Zeppelin created their music from a diet of Bert Jansch, Memphis Minnie, John Fahey, Billy Fury, Phil Spector, Richard 'Rabbit' Brown, Moby Grape, Manitas De Plata and Om Kalsoum. Those who came afterwards were content with a diet of Led Zeppelin, which is not the same thing at all.

Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it, I’m listening to it. With my writing…sometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highlights something I’m working on, sometimes it simply helps me stay in the narrative mood.

Charles de Lint

Numerous times throughout history, a single person has made a tremendous impact on the world. I don’t know why anyone would think that can’t still happen.

Richelle E. Goodrich

…the traditional family structure that More supported in her writings enabled women to 'be intelligent, rational, virtuous, and noble creatures, capable of great intellectual and moral achievements. They had the potential for immense influence on their husbands and sons, on their relations, their servants, and the poor.' More held, therefore, … 'the ideal of rational domesticity helped to liberate the individual within a supportive family framework.

Karen Swallow Prior

I simply love Drosera plants! Those tentacles, I love those tentacles...~ Aarush Kashyap

Reviewing bad books is bad for the character – WH Auden

I look up at the painting. It's not even that interesting. Definitely doesn't grab me and shake my brain around like the meadow scene did.

Stefan Bachmann

When manipulation flutters around everywhere, neither pull nor push anyone. Just do one thing - don't trust anyone!

Leaders gather scattered people with the positive influence of intimacy while misleaders scatter gathered people with the negative influence of intimidation.

Israelmore Ayivor

The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along.

Bring it down." Veteran leader Han Solo's correction to the overbearing swagger bike which his protégé is attempting to force his will on others.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

The towering genius is not apolitical.

Richard Brookhiser

He disliked the social obligations of the captaincy.

David was at his best in group settings, soldier enough to join in the raucous jests, king enough to make it matter that he remembered some moments of bravery or sacrifice, and praised each man accordingly.

Geraldine Brooks

Resilient communities relied on informal networks of deep trust to contend with and heal disruption.

I thought it best to add nothing further, to let the line of his thought lead him to his own conclusions.

Geraldine Brooks

Live an exemplary life as a leader. When you are gone, you will still lead from the grave because your influence, impacts and inspirations will become and information for the living.

Israelmore Ayivor

Now even reformers needed political machines.

The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse. – Calvin Coolidge

David Pietrusza

In my opinion, the state of mind of a community is always directly due to the influence of the man at the top.

Agatha Christie

The power to influence flows to the person with the most information.

Dr. Rob Pennington

You have to imprint your own style. People like authentic personalities.

As a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: What you create and What you allow.

When leaders lead in ways that people’s brains can follow, good results follow as well.

Real power, is the power that empowers without corruption

Constance Friday

Control what you can. Influence what you should. Forget the rest.

Let there be a child, who should,not be taught. Let there be a child, who should,be refrained from books. Let him not hear, don’t preach him, dear. Don’t let him read the quotations,on internet and make them his passion. Don’t tell him stories of successful,and make them his anthem.Allow him to grow unto what,he is to know.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Instead of thinking that you always need to do bigger things, learn to do the small things in better ways.

Adam Kirk Smith

Leadership is influencing others through modeling.

Your influence on others is your net worth, treat it as such.

Peprah Boasiako

Having a title only doesn’t make one a leader; talented people without a title don’t follow blindly, they practice leadership via influence.

Pearl Zhu

You don’t influence people by commanding them. When you are doing that, you are a manipulator and not a leader.

Israelmore Ayivor

Harbour no hatred in your heart against anyone. People who do this have placed their influence on the risky line.

Israelmore Ayivor

To influence people with your leadership gifts, you don’t make them your enemies. When they are your enemies, they won’t take your words seriously; neither will they support your actions.

Israelmore Ayivor

Since you can’t be influence by people who hate you, you cannot influence people you hate also.

Israelmore Ayivor

A leader is a thorn in the flesh of oppressive people. They never feel comfortable when a leader stands up.

Israelmore Ayivor

Would people be excited about your departure from the earth or they would wish you should come back again and again if possible?

Israelmore Ayivor

Contrary to popular opinion, leadership is not a reserved position for a particular group of people who were elected or appointed, ordained or enthroned. Leadership is self-made, self-retained, self-inculcated and then exposed through a faithful, sincere and examplary life.

Israelmore Ayivor

A true leader is still a leader even when he takes up servants' duty, provided he maintains a human face and added integrity to his self-retained qualities.

Israelmore Ayivor

Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance.

Michael Bassey Johnson

A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.

The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Albert Schweitzer

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