Chris Lytle famous quotes

Bad sales managers push two buttons: 'more' and 'panic.' Great sales managers have one more button to push: the 'how'.
-- Chris Lytle

#Two #Buttons #Panic

New sales managers are the forgotten rookie - they were pros at selling, but all of a sudden they're a rookie at management.
-- Chris Lytle

#Rookies #Management #Forgotten

You have to get buy-in as a leader, instead of demanding adherence to management. Phil Jackson sought Michael Jordan's support before installing the triangle offense.
-- Chris Lytle

#Support #Leader #Triangles

I define coaching as launching the salesperson on a voyage of discovery by asking questions.
-- Chris Lytle

#Asking Questions #Discovery #Coaching

I had been fighting since 1998 and knowing that this was going to be my last fight – I was not going to leave any questions or anything out there as far as, ‘Could I have done anything different?’ I was going to give this everything I had. My last memories of being a fighter were going to be good ones.
-- Chris Lytle

#Memories #Fighting #Knowing

In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men.

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating or breathing.

I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button.

Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.

But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.

I lay in bed and watched moments break into phenomenal particles of panic and could actually see the divine crack of God’s ***** as he completely turned his back on me.

I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.