Al Murray Quotes

Customers get exactly what they need, while you hit your sales targets and become incredibly successful – fair deal.

Great selling involves helping people to make great buying decisions.

In many instances, the words “sell” and “influence” are completely interchangeable.

Success does not judge one man for being worthy above another. Success doesn’t choose you because of your family name or existing wealth.

Success is taken by the man, who has made himself ready for its arrival.

I have been like a mediocre concert pianist playing in front of a tone-deaf family, who applaud out of duty rather than for accomplishment.

Your potential in this world is timeless

But what would happen if I put on the ring?” the boy asked.“There is only one way to find out.

It is infinitely better to rely on the pursuit of economic interest by landowners or street companies than to depend on the dubious “altruism” of bureaucrats and government officials.

The seed of every sin known to man is in my heart”.

I decided I would teach Mrs. P. a lesson by cooking my own meal.

The percentage of people qualifying for federal disability benefits because they are unable to work rose from 0.7 percent of the size of the labor force in 1960 to 5.3% in 2010.

Suffering is the fire by which love is tested.

There are no easy paths in this life. And when troubles arise, we must face them with the same dignity as we do success.

You gotta want it.

Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government.

The human impulse behind the isolation of class is as basic as impulses get: People like to be around other people who understand them and to whom they can talk.

When you get abandoned by someone, that's the moment when you've truly lost faith in them.

They don't know the distinction between taking care of a child and raising a child.

The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class by 1960.

Data can bear on policy issues, but many of our opinions about policy are grounded in premises about the nature of human life and human society that are beyond the reach of data.

... In our family, if you said the words 'I feel, ' they better be followed with 'hungry' or 'cold'. Because we didn't get personal, that's just how it was.

I believe his lies, so he believes mine.' She turns and looks at me straight on. 'That's how it goes at the end of love.

People don't want the truth, ' he says, waving a hand at the streets around us. 'They want better-quality lies. High definition lies on fifty-inch screens.

There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organized. One is by freedom and voluntary choice—the way of the market. The other is by force and dictation—the way of the State.

Let justice be done, though the heavens may fall.

Our insight into the need of redemption will largely depend upon our knowledge of the terrible nature of the power that has entered our being.

Our humility before God has no value, except that it prepares us to reveal the humility of Jesus to our fellow men.

Responsibility for the consequences of actions is not the price of freedom, but one of its rewards.

Pride is an expensive vice, for it is wedded to Greed whose hunger is never sated

Some things are worth the wait. A little suspense heightens the pleasure.

Even in prosperous times the living robbed the dead

It used to be the smartest people didn't always want to be the richest people.

Never on me let such wrath lay hold, as the wrath you cherish, you whose valor causes harm!

Some trees are too deeply rooted to move … And if they are uprooted, they will die…

Survival was more than the preservation of life. It was tenacity in the face of ruin, an unbroken resolve in the midst of defeat, a glimmer of hope in the maelstrom, and peace despite the wreckage.

You always were such a worrier. It was as if you thought your worrying was all that held the world together, and if you stopped for a split second the whole thing would just fly apart.

As truly as God by His power oncecreated, so truly by that same power must God every moment maintain.

This world is all vanity. It is a tempest hurling us from one sorrow to another.

Capitalism needs war.

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that it has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

The instinct of the thief is most strongly marked in the Skua tribe, and I am afraid that the mere love of thieving alone actuates them on many occasions.

We do not like the idea that any other creature can be better than we are. It is highly probable that if we ever have to face a superior race, we will die of it.

Sovereignty is not to be considered as an attribute of God-in the sense of being a quality which exists in God (such as omnipotence and omniscience)-rather it is the result of His attributes.

You look extremely young, " said Miss Nightingale...."Age isn't really a matter of years, I find, " returned Phemie. "I know people twice my age who will never be as old as I am now.

What good is a secret if it remains a secret ... Secrets are meant to be discovered...

If you do it in the bookies, it's a bet. . . . If you pay some 23-year-old in an Armani suit two hundred grand to go to the window for you, it's a derivative.

There must be a bad chromosome somewhere in man that urges him to wound that which he can't conquer, deface that which is more beautiful, misunderstand and befoul the work of another.

I know I really shouldn't be complaining right now,

The problem with being a leader is that you're never sure if you're being followed or chased.