You are surrounded by simple, obvious solutions that can dramatically increase your income, power, influence and success. The problem is, you just don't see them.

As soon as you open your mind to doing things differently, the doors of opportunity practically fly off their hinges.

Sell the benefit, not your company or the product. People buy results, not features.

Understand that you need to sell you and your ideas in order to advance your career, gain more respect, and increase your success, influence and income.

The key to all of life is understanding how to add value to others.

If you truly believe that what you have is useful and valuable to your clients, then you have a moral obligation to try to serve them in every way possible.

The greatest determinant of greatness is going to be our ability to collaborate with others who have pieces of the puzzle we don't.

The key of all life is value. Value is not what you get, it's what you give.

Without integrity, no company can have positive word of mouth

The fact is, everyone is in sales. Whatever area you work in, you do have clients and you do need to sell.

If you're attacking your market from multiple positions and your competition isn't, you have all the advantage and it will show up in your increased success and income.

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To make our communications more effective, we need to shift our thinking from "What information do I need to convey?" to "What questions do I want my audience to ask?

I'm a paranoid person. And I think - I'm the kind of person that can come up with lots of negative scenarios. But I remembered thinking that seemed like - that was a stretch even for me.

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

Just then Neville caused a slight diversion by turning into a large canary.

The immensity of His worth is reflected in the intensity of your worship.

It's nice to see you again, Laura." "Thank you, Mrs. T-" "No, no, no. Please, my name is-" "Mud," I suggested. "Mud Barfbag Taylor. Call her Asshat for short." ~Laura, Antonia, Betsy

Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities, sometimes even ones that are staring us in the face.

The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with most is connecting with other people.

I love to go to the movies with people, but a lot of the time it's me in a room with a bunch of other movie critics, which is fine.