Joe Girard quotes

“The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.”
-- Joe Girard

Source : Joe Girard, Robert Casemore (1979). “How to Sell Yourself”, Simon & Schuster

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“The important thing is to dare to dream big, then take action to make it come true.”
-- Joe Girard

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“Look back to learn how to look forward.”
-- Joe Girard

Source : Joe Girard, Stanley H. Brown (2006). “How to Sell Anything to Anybody”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

#Looks Quotes

“The one key line used by a very rich Hudson salesman: Would you like to buy a car now, without waiting?”
-- Joe Girard

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“If you do a lot of things to build business, you'll build business. They don't have to be done perfectly to work, although the better you do them, the better they'll work. But the main point is that you have to do them - a lot.”
-- Joe Girard

Source : Joe Girard, Stanley H. Brown (2006). “How to Sell Anything to Anybody”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”

“Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

“Freedom is never given; it is won.”

Source : Keynote speech given at the Second National Negro Congress, 1937.

“I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.”

“When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).”

Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”

“In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.”

“In order for the State in the person of school officials to justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion, it must be able to show that its action was caused by something more than a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint.”

Source : Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 1969.

“In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.”

“I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.”

“If I had my way, I'd do all my entertaining on the front steps”