January 2012
5 posts
Review of The Art of the Sale
From Publishers’ Weekly January 16th issue:
Like Malcolm Gladwell, Delves Broughton is drawn to success stories where natural talent takes second place to hard work, but he’s also willing to explore the manipulative, deceptive aspects of the task, as well as the endless rejection salespeople must face. His enthusiasm and admiration for skilled practitioners of the art is contagious.
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“You have nothing to lose, but you have a whole life to win.”
Earl Nightingale’s Strangest Secret - it’s really not that strange, but still worth listening to, if only for his rich Burt Lancaster voice. What becomes of our dreams as we get older? “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.” “The opposite of cowardice in our society is...