Frank Bettger Quotes

#1. Sell the interview before you attempt to sell the product

Frank Bettger

#2. Good listening works magic ... Listen intently intentionally!

Frank Bettger

#3. A story works when there's momentum, life behind the words. Some stories have this and others don't, and it's difficult to say why this is. If all stories "worked," though, writing wouldn't be much of a challenge; it wouldn't be art.

Mary J. Miller

#4. Understate and over-prove.

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#5. I once aged 90 years old in one episode.

DeForest Kelley

#6. Smile your best smile at everyone you see. Think about all the things you have to be thankful for ... and smile. The world will smile with you.

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#7. If you don't believe in what you're selling, neither will your prospect.

Frank Bettger

#8. There is an art in silence, and there is an eloquence in it too.

Frank Bettger

#9. Order (self-organizat ion): Set aside time to plan how you will spend your time. Think about what's most important. Then do those things first.

Frank Bettger

#10. The most important secret of salesmanship is to find out what the other fellow wants, then help him find the best way to get it

Frank Bettger

#11. Never forget a customer. Never let a customer forget you

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#12. The short-cut to popularity is to lend everyone your ears, instead of giving them your tongue

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#13. Some things you just can't explain. You don't even try. You don't know where to start. All your sentences would jumble up like a giant knot if you opened your mouth. Any words you used would come out wrong.

R.J. Palacio

#14. New customers are the best source of new business

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#15. I no longer worry about being a brilliant conversationalist. I simply try to be a good listener. I notice that people who do that are usually welcome wherever they go

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#16. Enthusiasm: If you don't FEEL enthusiastic, ACT enthusiastic. Soon, you'll BE enthusiastic. Double your enthusiasm and you'll probably double your income.

Frank Bettger

#17. Atlantis?" Jason asked. "That's a myth," Percy said. "Uh ... don't we deal in myths?" "No, I mean it's a made-up myth. Not, like, an actual true myth." "So this is why Annabeth is the brains of the operation, then?" "Shut up, Grace.

Rick Riordan

#18. Selling is the easiest job in the world if you work it hard-but the hardest job in the world if you try to work it easy.

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#19. Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

James Anthony Froude

#20. Keep your mind young by continuing to learn about your business.

Frank Bettger

#21. I came from a family that sometimes didn't have insurance.

Mark T Bertolini

#22. When you show a man what he wants he will move heaven and earth to get it.

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#23. I might be collecting wheely bins in 12 months time but at least they'll be wheely bins outside back gates that I know, in a part of the country that I love. There's no place like home!

Peter Kay

#24. Enthusiasm is by far the highest paid quality on earth, probably because it is one of the rarest; yet it is one of the most contagious.

Frank Bettger

#25. The whole secret of freedom from anxiety over not having enough time lies not in working more hours, but in the proper planning of the hours.

Frank Bettger