Persistence

Selling is an active verb...be active

Colin Williams, CEO, SCA North America

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way

Babe Ruth

Excellence is born of preparation, dedication, focus and tenacity; compromise on any of these and you become average

Anonymous

Whether you're an optimist or a pessimist, the outcome's the same…but the optimists have the better time of it

Unknown

One who knows the enemy and knows himself will not be endangered in a hundred engagements

Sun Tzu

You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable

Peter Drucker

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just

Anita Roddick

A sensible man never embarks on an enterprise until he can see his way to the end of it

Aesop

Listen, or thy tongue will keep thee deaf

American Indian proverb

Always plan with the end result in mind…Be clear. Be specific

Stephanie Goddard Davidson

Genuine listening means suspending memory, desire, and judgment – and, for a few moments at least, existing for the other person

Michael P. Nichols

God gave us two ears and one mouth and we should use them in that ratio

Mark Twain

Success is not down to what you know, but who you know. However, this is not quite the entire formula. You have to know enough to impress the people you know, or they won't want to know you, no matter how well you know them. This requires an ability to recognise what it is that you don't know. If you know what you don't know, you can find it out. If you don't, you will live in ignorance, assuming that you know it all until you realise that you know nothing.

Source: Andrew Carver's Mother

Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.

Paul Hawken

Opportunity plus instinct equals profit.

9th Ferengi Rule of Acquisition