Sufe Bradshaw Quotes

We went to - I guess it was a legitimate boiler room, and I sat in front of this guy who literally was on the phone with two people at once. They call it double fisting.

A telemarketer has as much right to force people to listen to a sales pitch as a door-to-door salesman has to force himself into a home.

I had this job where I had to cold call people, and that was terrifying to me, and that was on a far different level than invading their space.

I find the roller-coaster ride of auditioning most challenging. It's always about putting yourself out there, being rejected, and then getting back out there and trying again.

My training of cold-calling and everyone under the sun telling me no, and my keeping going, was a huge part of the first two years of Spanx.

The worst job I ever had was as a telemarketer for, oh, I don't know, I think I made it about 90 minutes. I quit before lunch. I went in around 10:30 or 11 and said, 'I can't do this.' It was horrific. I had too many people yell at me within that 90 minutes to be able to continue.

Telemarketers tell me I sound like Bill Cosby.

I don't want to have my life fall apart for my work.

When telemarketers call me now, I won't get the blow-horn. I'm more polite than the average person.

I've sold a lot of different product. Very briefly, I sold Time Life Books on the phone.

With all the auditions you do, there is a lot of rejection you have to take as well. You get used to that.

Maybe someday I'll have a job where it haunts me or it's hard to move on.

As a young actor, you hear 'no' every single day for years on end.

Everyone believes that artificial or prerecorded calls - 'robocalls,' as they're known - are awful. They're intrusive. They're unwanted.

The reality of show business - and I suppose a lot of businesses, but specifically show business - is that it is this business of 'no's.' It's mostly 'no's.'

I was actually really good at telemarketing.

Oh God, I've done telesales. It doesn't get much lower than that, really. That's the job I enjoyed the least.

The worst day of writing is still better than the best day of telemarketing.

Never take no personally. Sometimes people tell you no for a reason that has nothing to do with you. You must keep going.

You might get a "no" a hundred times but you might get "yes" one time. That one "yes" will take you on a new path!

When a copier sales person cold calls a purchasing manager whom he has never met is it any surprise that the purchasing manager will most likely never return that call?

If you get a no from somebody, don't say, 'I'm going to take this as some big cosmic signal.' No, you just got a no, deal with it. Just go to the next step.

I'm from Oregon. This is a town of no. I say no to a lot of things, and I get told no for a lot of things. Sometimes there's a yes, and you hope you see something in it.

The writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be alone with oneself. To be gentle with oneself. To look at the world without blinders on. To observe and withstand what one sees. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks. To be willing to fail - not just once, but again and again, over the course of a lifetime.

What I like best about the telephone is that it keeps you in touch with people, particularly people who want to sell you magazine subscriptions in the middle of the night.