Napoleon Hill Quotes
A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises.
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When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.
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I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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I can make the argument that people who don't have the biggest ranges but have very unique voices, even if they may be pitchy at times... with the right record that's really unique and distinct, they can have big hits.
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The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isn't really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can be Clarence Darrow, but anyone who wants to be at least competent at argument can do it.
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I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.
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Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
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There is something about guns that inhibits understanding. It is not just that they can put an end to argument. They somehow generate beliefs that are obviously contrary to observable fact.
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I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.
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Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress.
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I was having an argument with my stepfather, and he was like, 'Why don't you join the Marine Corps?' And I was like, 'Noooo! Well, maybe, actually... ' I went and saw the recruiter, who was like, 'Are you on the run from the cops? Because we've never had someone want to leave so fast.'
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Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
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If you pick up an eighteenth-century play, at the top it says 'The Argument,' and then you have a list of characters, and then you have the play. I was just always struck by that - that, of course, good drama is about conflict.
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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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If the social conservatives feel that they have a strong argument on traditional marriage, then feel free to have it.
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History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.
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The love of experiment was very strong in him [Charles Darwin], and I can remember the way he would say, "I shan't be easy till I have tried it," as if an outside force were driving him. He enjoyed experimenting much more than work which only entailed reasoning, and when he was engaged on one of his books which required argument and the marshalling of facts, he felt experimental work to be a rest or holiday.
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If a vacuum cleaner salesman rings your front door, he will be selling HIMSELF first. The vacuum cleaner is secondary.
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A promise, a bond, a joy, a love for the ages, for the history books.…But what was love but pain?
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I'm an 18-year-old boy, and I'm having fun. I'm just not having as much fun as people make out.
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There are as many great superhero movies as there are comedies and dramas and cartoons. People just want to see good movies.
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A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises.
