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Doctor I. Johnson, Marketing Consultant

 

Notable Quotables - Sales and Marketing Resources

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle" - Albert Einstein.

Success and Failure

"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions - as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all." - Friedrich Nietzsche.

Enjoy your quote of the day. Inspire yourself as you face your sales and marketing challenges with quotations from wise counsellors who have faced great obstacles and lived to tell the tale!


The main obstacle to our development is our lack of knowledge about the nature of consciousness itself.
  - David Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. "Power Versus Force"
There are truths that can be expressed which cannot be proven to be true.
  - Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem
Marketing isn't selling; it's helping people buy.
Marketing isn't about finding customers, its about creating them.
Marketing is creating a desire for your products and services.
Selling is satisfying that desire.

  - Peter Drucker
Be who you are, and be that well.
  - St. Francis de Sales
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
  - Mohandas Ghandi
Be willing to give up the life you have to get the life that's waiting for you.
  - James Hillman
The person who can most accurately describe reality without laying blame will emerge as the leader.
  - Susan Scott, Fierce Conversations
In the life cycle of every conflict, there is a point when it's large enough to be recognized, but small enougah to be resolved.
  - Daniel Dana
The Law of Gratitude states simply that abundance flourishes in a grateful heart.
  - Harold Klemp
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything, and in this lies the distinction between great men and little men.
  - Thomas Fuller
The smallest good deed is better than any grand intention.
  - Source Unknown
Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning.
  - Eugene S. Wilson
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
  - Buckminster Fuller
Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know .
  - M.K. Huber
The intelligence of an individual is their IQ. The capability of a group of people is their "WeQ."
  - Ian Johnson
While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
  - St. Francis de Sales
To know and not to do is not yet to know.
  - Chinese Proverb
The difference between a free person and one without freedom is not bars or doors, but they extent to which they are able to choose their state of mind.
  - Source Unknown
You don't get harmony when everyone sings the same note.
   - Doug Floyd
The best measure of your wealth is how little time you spend thinking about money issues.
  - Ian Johnson
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
  - Joseph Campbell
All great things are done for their own sake.
  - Robert Frost
The next major advance in people's health  will be determined by what individuals are willing to do for themselves.
   - John Knowles
Each patient carries their own doctor inside them. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to work.
    - Albert Schweitzer, M.D.

Leadership is a group project, and all of us are necessary to fill it. Wise leaders will realize this and encourage their groups to develop their own evolving leadership potential.
    - Arnold Mindell, The Leader As Martial Artist

It is time. You must lead. Ultimately everyone must at some time lead.
    - Marlo Morgan, Mutant Message Down Under

Be the change you want to see in the world.
     - Ghandi

You never grow by how much you win - You only grow by how much you put in
   - Bill Clennan

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
    - Helen Keller

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible
    -  Jonathan Swift

You do not perceive something until you have the right metaphor to receive it.
    - Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Let’s shine the light of consciousness on places where we can hope to find what we are seeking.
    - Marshall Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication

We must be able to identify all the parts in a system and allow them to speak. All the parts in a group, even those we do not like or believe to be useless, must be present and supported.
    - Arnold Mindell, The Leader As Martial Artist

When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.
    - Carl Gustav Jung, The Undiscovered Self

Instead of seeking to pinpoint blame, seek to understand cause.
   - Neale Donald Walsch, Marianne Williamson, James Twyman, James Redfield and Doreen Virtue

Definition of a business partnership - "It's a strictly plutonic relationship!"
    - Ian Johnson
- - Let me explain that "plutonic" means nuclear, explosive, as in "plutonium" and that "platonic" means friendly, but not romantic. So this is a quote based on a spelling mistake - not about CRM (Customer Relationship Management) but about the nature of business relationships, which can become angry and bitter.

Although it takes two to have a relationship, it only takes one to change its quality. 
    - Roger Fisher and Scott Brown, Getting Together

If you have a problem, make it into a process, then you'll have success
    - Source Unknown

If you don't know what your passion is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it.
    - Oprah Winfrey

I am never less alone than when alone.
    - William Hazlitt, essay "On Going a Journey"

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
    - Shakespeare, Hamlet

You may not get what you want, but God always gives you what you need.
    - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, The Wheel of Life