Personal Planning Quotes
You’ve got to be driven to become successful.
Speaking from the heart is simple. Listening wholeheartedly, however, is much, much more difficult and most rare.
Everything would have been for nothing just because I simply didn’t listen.
I was so sure that I knew what they needed and what I wanted to sell them that I never stopped long enough to find out what it was they wanted to buy.
Whilst people have answered questions, I have only heard my own voice thinking of the next question.
Embrace the fundamentals like the closest of friends, for they will be the foundation of your future success.
In the past, I have all too often listened without hearing, asking questions when I had no intention of hearing the answer or understand my customer’s requirements.
My intention was, only, ever to help you see the light shining brightly in front, and inside, of you.
Adopt the positive in everything you do, for there will always be positivity there to find, if that is what you seek.
Make sure everyone, who works with you or for you, feels the need to tell others about the incredible experience.
When national ideals are confined to insignificant issues reflective primarily of a personal choice, there lies a problem of distorted priorities.
There has never been a more urgent time than now for you to seek to maximize your potential for achieving greater balance in your life.
There is nothing better in life than commitment to personal development and lifelong learning.
Whenever I am in a difficult situation where there seems to be no way out, I think about all the times I have been in such situations and say to myself, "I did it before, so I can do it again.
Sceptics are persuaded by a good reputation, for it is an unspoken statement of proof.
Most men have professions, yet few act like professionals.
In this world there are those who enjoy giving people balloons and there are those who take great pleasure in popping them. And I wish to be remembered as being firmly in the first party.
When you work on something that only has the capacity to make you 5 dollars, it does not matter how much harder you work – the most you will make is 5 dollars.
In the past, I have bargained myself away, believing that price was more important than cost, quality, reliability, or reputation. In the past, I was clearly wrong.
The confidence felt, when dealing with genuine reputation, often outweighs the simplicity of price.
Who would be willing to put up with less than the desired result, if they could afford to have it done properly?
How we feel about those we give our business to is of vital importance.
Reputation is the panacea for those who lack confidence in their own decisions.
Sometimes, if you get too close to a subject you can miss what’s most important.
You listen like an amateur and fool yourself into believing it is enough when it is not.
I want you to start realising how far away you are from being able to listen professionally.
Listening is a discipline. It’s all about being present at that moment in time.
It saddens me to note that there will always be con artists and charlatans in the world. Men who aim to fool the public by clothing themselves in the robes of experts.
I will design my reputation and my resolve shall be absolute. I shall not give in when I know I can help.
I will design myself a reputation, in which prospects can place their trust, and customers return to and recommend.
I will look the part. I will act the part. I will deliver that which I have promised to deliver.
I will not let those, who cannot recognise how I can be of service, dissuade me from showing them how I can help.