My way to succeed

Sunday, July 26, 2009

"Knowledge: Know your business." quotes of the Week #8 - 6th Round

Sunday:
"Knowledge is a process of pilling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification."
Martin H. Fischer

Monday:
"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe."
Marilyn vos Savant

Tuesday:
"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you'll never cease to grow."
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Wednesday:
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
Benjamin Franklin

Thursday:
"Be curious always, for knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it."
Sudie Back

Friday:
"A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does."
Haliburton

Saturday:
"Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more."
Mark Twain

Sunday, July 19, 2009

"Sincerity." quotes of the Week #7 - 6th Round

Sunday:
"As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity, and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the word around you."
Greenville Kleiser

Monday:
"Sincerity is an open of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others."
Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Tuesday:
"I can say with full sincerity that I am happy. I'm happy because I'm doing what I love and I'm not selling out."
Columbus Short

Wednesday:
"One of the hardest thing in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation that its frank admission."
Benjamin Disraeli

Thrusday:
"As the yellow gold is tried in the fire, so is sincerity testes in adversity."
Ovid

Friday:
"There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination."
Mencius

Saturday:
"It may be a shock when you realize the simple truth: Sincerity sells everything."
http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Build-Sincerity-in-Your-Ad-Copy&id=1962306

Sunday, July 12, 2009

"Silence." quotes of the Week #6 - 6th Round

Sunday:
"The best salespeople are great listeners - that's how you find out what the buyer wants."
Larry Wilson and Spencer Johnson

Monday:
"Of all the skills of leadership, listening is the most valuable - and one of the least understood. Most captains of industry listen only sometimes, and they remain ordinary leaders. But a few, the great ones, never stop listening. That's how they get word before anyone else of unseen problems and opportunities."
Peter Nulty
National Business Hall of Fame Fortune Magazine

Tuesday:
"You have to be willing sometimes to listen to some remarkable bad opinions. Because if you say to someone, 'that's the silliest thing I've ever heard; get on out of here! - then you'll never get anything out of that person again, and you might as well have a puppet on a string or a robot."
John Bryan

Wednesday:
"Silence is a source of great strength."
Lao Tzu

Thursday:
"Do not speak unless you can improve the silence."
Proverb quotes

Friday:
"The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention... A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words."
Rachel Naomi Remen

Saturday:
"To silence another, first be silent yourself."
Latin proverb

"Silence." quotes of the Week #6 - 6th Round

Sunday:
"The best salespeople are great listeners - that's how you find out what the buyer wants."
Larry Wilson and Spencer Johnson

Monday:
"Of all the skills of leadership, listening is the most valuable - and one of the least understood. Most captains of industry listen only sometimes, and they remain ordinary leaders. But a few, the great ones, never stop listening. That's how they get word before anyone else of unseen problems and opportunities."
Peter Nulty
National Business Hall of Fame Fortune Magazine

Tuesday:
"You have to be willing sometimes to listen to some remarkable bad opinions. Because if you say to someone, 'that's the silliest thing I've ever heard; get on out of here! - then you'll never get anything out of that person again, and you might as well have a puppet on a string or a robot."
John Bryan

Wednesday:
"Silence is a source of great strength."
Lao Tzu

Thursday:
"Do not speak unless you can improve the silence."
Proverb quotes

Friday:
"The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention... A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words."
Rachel Naomi Remen

Saturday:
"To silence another, first be silent yourself."
Latin proverb

Saturday, July 11, 2009

"All of us have the spark of leadership in us, whether it is in business, in government, or as a non-profit volunteer. The challenge is to understand ourselves well enough to discover where we can use our leadership gets to serve others"

"Discovering your authentic leadership requires a commitment to developing yourself. Like a musician and athletes, you most devote yourself to a lifetime of realizing your potential. Most people Kroger CEO David Dillon has seen become good leaders were self-taught.

"The advice I give to individuals in our company is not to expect the company to hand you a development plan. You need to take responsability for developing yourself."

Hardvard Bunisses Review
OnPoint Winter,2008

Monday, July 6, 2009

"Key Issue." quotes of the Week #5 - 6th Round

Sunday:
"The future belogs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious"
John Scully

Monday:
"You will find the key to success under the alarm clock."
Benjamin Franklin

Tuesday:
"Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about."
Remy de Gourmont

Wednesday:
"So, how do you engage someone who is completely unfamiliar with what you do? The same way you engage a child. Simplify the concept, making connections to things in their realm of experience."
Lorraine Ball

Thursday:
"The key to a good life is to keep it simple, yet creating simplicity is such a complex issue."
Master Jin Kwon

Friday:
"A complaint is a gift. It is how you thank the giver of the gift that strengthens the relationship."
Antoinette Bisschoff

Saturday:
"I think that the quote 'What gets measured, gets done' is very dangerous but it encourages people to measure everything, rather than what's important. I prefer the quote "Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that is counted counts."
Jonathan

Implementing these ideas and posting quotes about them.

The success of your business reflects the amount of love you have for it. Want a more success business? Ask yourself if you can find a way to love it more. Love is the doorway, and you are the key. Remember: education changes everything. Gleen Head

Frank Bettger <------------>Benjamin Franklin
Enthusiasm: Force yourself to act enthusiastic.Temperance: Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
Order: Self Organization. Take more time to think and do things in the order of importance. Silence: Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
Think of other's interests.Order: Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
Questions: Cultivate the art of asking questions.Resolution: Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
Key issue. The most important secret of salesmanship is to find out what the others fellow wants, and then help him the best way to get it.Frugality. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e, waste nothing.
Silence: Listen. Keep you avoid talking too much.Industry - Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
Sincerity: Deserve confidence.Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
Knowledge: Know your business and keep knowing your businessJustice: Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
Appreciation & PraiseModeration: Avoid extremes; forbear reseting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
Smile: HappinessCleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body. Cloaths, or habitation.
Remember faces and names.Tranquility. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
Service and prospecting.Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dulness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.
Closing the sale: action.Humility..

Best Practices: 'As early as 1960, Theodore Levitt wrote, in his marketing classic "Marketing Myopia", that customer service "involves more than good intentions or promotional tricks. It involves profound matters of human organization and leadership." (Enis, Cox & Mokwa, 1996) http://www.col.org/pcf2/papers\bisschoff.pdf