Chris Lytle Quotes

#1. If you live in the twentieth century you do not find it hard to see yourself in those, more desperate than yourself, who seek to shape it to their will.

Salman Rushdie

#2. Bad sales managers push two buttons: 'more' and 'panic.' Great sales managers have one more button to push: the 'how'.

Chris Lytle

#3. It takes a long time to write a book. I'm not going to spend that much time trying to deliver a message. The reason I do it is because I want to understand something myself. It's not a delivery device, it's an inquiry device. Didactic fiction to my mind never works. It backfires.

Ruth Ozeki

#4. I'll be damned if I'm going to be the next Code Blue.

Bill Coon

#5. Never tell a ticket agent, "As a matter of fact, I DID accept items from persons unknown to me! A nice man in a chadar gave me this awesome luggage freshener with a clock attached!" Federal regulations require them to have no idea you're joking as they riddle your body with bullets.

Seanbaby

#6. You have to get buy-in as a leader, instead of demanding adherence to management. Phil Jackson sought Michael Jordan's support before installing the triangle offense.

Chris Lytle

#7. For every bandaged wound
I'll scrape another open

Adrienne Rich

#8. I define coaching as launching the salesperson on a voyage of discovery by asking questions.

Chris Lytle

#9. Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it.

John Shadegg

#10. New sales managers are the forgotten rookie - they were pros at selling, but all of a sudden they're a rookie at management.

Chris Lytle

#11. I'd appreciate it if in the future when you come up with a plan that makes a hardened criminal pause, you could at least give me the gist of it ahead of time. In broad strokes.

Ilona Andrews