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“The first step to solving any problem is to accept one’s own accountability for creating it.”

“Profitability. Growth. Quality. Exceeding customer expectations. These are not examples of values. These are examples of corporate strategies being sold to you as values.”

“What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.”

“When rewards come from an external source instead of an internal source, they’re unreliable, which means they’re dangerous if you grow to depend on them.”

“The worst thing in your own development as a leader is not to do it wrong. It’s to do it for the wrong reasons.”

“It’s impossible for a company to get what it wants most if managers have to make a choice between their own values and company priorities.”

“A manager’s emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual & physical commitment combined.”

“A company can’t buy true emotional commitment from managers no matter how much it’s willing to spend; this is something too valuable to have a price tag. And yet a company can’t afford not to have it.”

“The myth of management is that your personal values are irrelevant or inappropriate at work.”

“You don't have to fear your own company being perceived as human. You want it. People don't trust companies; they trust people.”

“Try not to take this the wrong way, but your brain is smarter than you are.”

“Human behavior is only unpredictable and dangerous if you don’t start from humanity in the first place.”

“Here’s what you need to know most about leadership: Lead your own life first. The only thing in this world that will dependably happen from the top down is the digging of your grave.”

“You can stuff yourself with emotional fulfillment until it’s dribbling down your chin & your ego will quickly chomp it down and demand more.”

“The economy is in ruins! Bottom line? Good management will defeat a bad economy.”

“Being relevant to your customers only when you’re trying to sell something means choosing to be irrelevant to them for the rest of the time.”

“There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.”

“Emotional commitment means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company and its success; any legendary organizational performance is the result of emotionally committed managers.”

“What companies want most from their managers is what they most stop their managers from giving. What managers want most from their jobs is what they most stop themselves from getting.”

“Providing the ultimate solution to work/life balance: not escaping from work but living the way you want to at work.”

“The company may have captured their minds, their bodies and their pockets, but that doesn’t mean it’s captured their hearts.”

“Your dreams and the dreams of your company may be different, but they are in no way incompatible.”

“Your company really has to work for you before you’ll really work for your company.”

“Imagine a world where what you say synchs up, not sinks down.”

“Your company is its own competition and can deliver itself debilitating blows the competition only dreams of.”

“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.”

“Whilst people have answered questions, I have only heard my own voice thinking of the next question.”

“I was so sure that I knew what they needed and what I wanted to sell them that I never stopped long enough to find out what it was they wanted to buy.”

“Speaking from the heart is simple. Listening wholeheartedly, however, is much, much more difficult and most rare.”

“If you woke before dawn one morning with the formula for a vaccine, which would cure the most ghastly disease currently known to man, releasing millions from an agonising death, would you roll over and resume sleeping until daylight?”

“I have discovered fallen trees across my path and have possessed neither the strength to move them nor the patience or tenacity to find an alternative way round. I have simply returned to where I came from, and told myself there had been no other choice.”

“Everything would have been for nothing just because I simply didn’t listen.”

“Finding happiness by delivering it.”

“You’ve got to be driven to become successful.”

“Don't Hire Good....Hire Great.”

“You Work For Your Team, They Don't Work For You.”

“Micromanagement could have unintended consequences. Instead of getting people in line, it may cause them to leave.”

“Saying, “I don’t have time for CRM.” is like saying, “I don’t have time to look at my GPS app because I am too busy trying to figure out the best way to get from here to there.”

“I would like to express how I regard salespeople in general. I consider they embody a unified and diverse aggregate of the most able individuals in society and its workplace. In any economy, they are among the most valuable to its continued existence. They alone move the economy of a nation.”

“Give me a person who sincerely wants to commit themselves to being a salesperson, and put them on my team and I will give you a hero. That has always been my mindset as a sales manager, whenever I have been in that position. I believe in people, and I seek to encourage them to perform at their best.”

“Think about it: if someone had found a way to manipulate human choice and free will – if someone actually had that kind of power – wouldn’t it be a tad surprising if they then decided to share their secret with the masses in a book for $20? Not to mention how it would be just very slightly unethical.”

“Focusing on Earning the Right will have an incredible effect on the success of every single sales call that you will make from this day on.”