{"quotes":[{"text":"However, more important to all of that: the players played the game as a true team. There are many teams in baseball, but not all play as a team. Many merely play as a group of talented athletes, which is a huge difference over the course of a long season.","author":"Michael Delaware","tags":["sales","sales-effectiveness","sales-management-training","salesman","salesmen","team-management","team-spirit","team-work","teammates","teamwork","training"],"id":8146,"author_id":"Michael+Delaware"},{"text":"They lived off each other's hypocrisy, fuelling a worthless market of trash.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["art","capitalism","economy","false-hype","gadfly","hypocrisy","industry","junk","market-economy","market-economy-as-a-threat","modern-art","modern-art-market-market","modern-artists","sales","sales-effectiveness","salesmen","trash","worthless"],"id":43094,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"I am not ashamed that I was once a vacuum-cleaner salesman, only that I was a *good* vacuum-cleaner salesman.","author":"Robert Morley","tags":["salesmen","shame"],"id":192818,"author_id":"Robert+Morley"},{"text":"A real salesman knows how to engage Anyone Anywhere Anytime in a sensible conversation.","author":"honeya","tags":["rapport","rapport-building","sales","sales-skills","sales-teachings","sales-technique","sales-training","salesman","salesmen","sell"],"id":225719,"author_id":"honeya"},{"text":"You cannot win everyday, but make sure u win, at-least once in a while.","author":"honeya","tags":["fight","lessons","life","life-lessons","motivational","sales","sales-advice","sales-effectiveness","sales-management","sales","sales-training","salesman","salesmanship","salesmen","successful-living"],"id":248546,"author_id":"honeya"},{"text":"If I can make you feel the same way that I feel about myproduct or service we’ll have a meaningful conversation about itand how it can help. The trouble is that most sales people don’t feelanything. Nothing at all.","author":"Chris Murray","tags":["feelings","sales","salesmen","salespeople","selling","success","successful","transference"],"id":263730,"author_id":"Chris+Murray"},{"text":"Is the competition really some mythical beast? No, not really. Knowing how to play your group of salespeople as a team, to overcome the group objective of winning the customers support, is the objective. The opposing team in proper viewpoint is not just the similar competing business to yours. Nor is it the competing franchises of your home office.No, in order to really be effective in the market place as a surviving business, you must go beyond that philosophy. You must be willing to expand your viewpoint to fully understand who the competition truly is. Your true competition is simply this: Anywhere that your customer would spend his or her dollars as opposed to spending them at your company or place of business.","author":"Michael Delaware","tags":["competition","competition-and-attitude","sales","sales-advice","sales-effectiveness","sales-management-training","sales-training","salesmen"],"id":298067,"author_id":"Michael+Delaware"},{"text":"They all call me 'Excuse me,' even though my nametag clearly says 'Jordan.' It's like people don't actually exist while they're working. Workers are just tools who aren't supposed to have feelings or personalities. You don't become human until your shift is over. Until then, we're all just zombies. We're dead to the world: infected people who need to be avoided, unless, of course, someone needs to know where the paintbrushes are located.","author":"J. Cornell Michel","tags":["avoid","avoided","dead","dead-people","dead-to-the-world","excuse-me","exist","existence","feel","feeling","feelings","feels","human","human-nature","humanity","humans","infected","infected-people","infection","infectious","infectious-diseases","jordan","located","location","name","name-tag","names","nametag","need","over","paint-brush","paintbrushes","people","people-suck","personalities","personality","sales","salesman","salesmen","shift","supposed-to","tool","tools","until-then","work","work-ethic","working","works","world","zombie","zombie-apocalypse","zombies","zompoc"],"id":310811,"author_id":"J.+Cornell+Michel"},{"text":"We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["business","children","confession","deceit","lies","manipulation","parents","salesmen"],"id":322184,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Outside the box' is an overused cliche which goes nowhere near far enough. In fact, there are so many politicians and salesmen thinking outside the box these days that I am convinced that all of their boxes are completely empty!","author":"Lance Greenfield","tags":["cliche","outside-the-box","politicians","salesmen"],"id":419850,"author_id":"Lance+Greenfield"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}