Jennifer Hyman Quotes

If you learn to sell, it's worth more than a degree. It's worth more than the heavyweight championship of the world. It's even more important than having a million dollars in the bank. Learn to sell, and you'll never starve.

I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.

My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.

At one point my dad called me and said, 'You have always been a great salesman. I think it's time you come home and sell swimming pools.'

Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win.

Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with people. You also needed business skills. You knew you needed to sell a certain amount of boxes, so that gave me some business sense.

Ninety percent of selling is conviction, and 10 per cent is persuasion.

Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

People who wish to go into the future should have two skills to succeed - the ability to deal with people and the ability to sell.

We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.

Salesmanship is limitless. Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

I find a way to convince people to come along with me. They want to be persuaded. When I sit in a room with you I'm going to sell you something whether you want it or not. At the end you'll say: 'I'm glad I bought that.'

In civil business; what first? Boldness; what second and third? boldness.

I wasn't a very good salesman.

There's a right way to sell and a wrong way to sell.

If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.

Nobody was like, 'Kimberly, we're going to let you anchor general news or host a show or do any of that.' I at first started out doing legal analysis, but I had to make the case to my bosses... give me a shot, give me a chance, and I was able to do that: say, 'Let me fill in. Let me show you my range. Nothing to lose here - it's the holidays.'

Learning how to be persuasive has been really crucial to my life both professionally and personally.

I can sell anything. I'm very convincing.

Being a salesperson prepares you for just about everything in business: how to listen, empathize, and persuade; when to back off and when to step in; and, of course, how to close.

You must develop personal contacts if you want to be successful.

What police do is not really about force. Police preserve peace and order principally by educating, leading, persuading people to cooperate in a peaceful community. Any veteran officer will tell you that the essential police skill is talking to people. That is especially true for dealing with young people, who ... no one else really talks to at all.

I've been very successful in business and I owe it all to politics.