"You sell more when you stop selling."

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Source : David Meerman Scott (2016). “The New Rules of Sales and Service: How to Use Agile Selling, Real-Time Customer Engagement, Big Data, Content, and Storytelling to Grow Your Business”, p.116, John Wiley & Sons

David Meerman Scott

#Selling Quotes

“I have learned that trying again is important and decisivness is good. I have learned that silence hurts. I have learned about starting over and releasing pride.”
“Discomfort and awkwardness are places where you feel things. I'm a big advocate for being happy. We can choose to live in a happy bubble. But part of being happy is understanding how sad things can be.”
“We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldnt have even a fraction of my current success.”
“But since you're asking me, I'll tell you my opinion: all cornbread is authentic, as long as it's good, hot, and made with love and fresh ingredients.”
“The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.”

Source : Interview with John Thornhill, Peggy Hollinger and Martin Arnold, www.ft.com. February 6, 2007.
“I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy." I'm an old man, but I'm a boy. A really old boy!”

Source : Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 19, 2008.
“I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then I had this really extraordinary, different life than my parents.”

Source : "Dan Chaon: Characters find sense of self" by Michelle Broder Van Dyke, www.sfgate.com. October 8, 2009.
“My parents were not musical, but my mom just really wanted my brother and I to learn music as well as practice sports. It's a balance for which I'm thankful. I'm not sure I'm more balanced than anyone, but I'm happier because I can make music and I'm really thankful for that.”

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