Chris Murray Quotes

Like an ant, I will find my way round any obstacle. Like a child, I will persevere with pinpoint focus.

The choices you make from this day forward will lead you, step by step, to the future you deserve.

Spend your time designing the greatest reputation a man could possess.

Let your customers and prospects recommend you to each other and let you competition wish they were you. That is our mission.

If you honestly know how you help people, then you should become passionate about sharing it, spread the good news, give everyone a chance to share in the solutions that you can provide.

Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses

Men constantly miscalculate what they can do in a day, and grossly underestimate what can be achieved in a year.

Remember this. We are always looking for problems to solve, and to solve problems we need to be ready for clues. And you will never be in the receiving frame of mind if you – never – shut - up!

Make sure everyone who works with you or for you, feels the need to tell others about the incredible experience.

There can be no success in sales without tenacity.

Understand why you are different and how you help, recognise your target market, and give them something they might not even realise they are missing.

You can only see your current horizon. Every time you move nearer to your desired destination, new horizons will become clear. New, previously hidden, opportunities will come into view.

What you deserve will be down to you, and you alone.

Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things.

The future is a fabulous place to bury your success.

Currently, you are approaching each opportunity with a single possible outcome and when that doesn't happen you fool yourself that there was nothing more that you could have done.

You see continuous movement is the important thing here. Those who remain in one position and then lie to themselves about their progress are the ones in real trouble.

Until you take the first step forward, failure remains reassuringly impossible.

You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesn’t get done.

It has nothing to do with the time being right or wrong. Storms just happen.

And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save them all from the charlatans and the nearly-men.

I will ask questions that are so wide and open they will feel the need to speak for a week. Then from the information that they give to me, I will mould solutions designed specifically for them.

Fascinatingly resilient the tenacity of a child. Not yet conditioned by society to give up when instructed to do so.

Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early.

In short, the difference between you and your doctor is that he has a well-designed reputation and you do not.

Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left.

Mark my words. Perception is reality and how someone perceives you is their reality.

If you wish to sell to anyone you must earn the right to do so.

But without a need, even the finest piece of beef is merely a piece of dead bull is it not?

Why do so many salespeople talk to customers about the product and not the result?

I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they’d met me.

In this world of half-jobs and liars, I will prevail.

That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever

Nobody ever kicked a dog wagging its tail

Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.

Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would already possess it, would you not?

Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.

It's not how I view being a salesman. It's how I live being a salesman.

The U.S. Army has recently removed the cross from the insignia worn by chaplains. In its place is a sun with its rays, symbolizing the divine in all things.

Listening is a discipline. It's all about being present at that moment in time.

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

Earn the Right - Ensure you put this chunk of Sales Tetris in place first and all the other pieces just take their own positions naturally.

The commitment gap is the massive distance between “yes” and “maybe

How do I go about cataloguing my dreams?

If customers don’t trust you to help them at the beginning of the sales process, they certainly won’t trust you with their money at the end of it.

Earning the Right is a commitment to be the sales professional that your customer really needs

I’ll record what I’ve learnt on the subject of what I sell. What it actually is means little to anyone other than me, but what it does and how it helps, means everything to those who require it.

The ability to close sales effectively has never been confined to the last few moments of the conversation.

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

Could trying your hardest, but never being quite good enough ever be acceptable to anyone? Is that what your dreams are made of?