Don Yaeger Quotes

The ability to sell is the number one skill in business. If you cannot sell, don't bother thinking about becoming a business owner.

When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.

People who believe I'm an idiot don't hire me and they don't call.

What nerds miss is that it takes hard work to make sales look easy.

You do not need to look or be anorexic to be successful in Hollywood. The range of what's acceptable is a lot larger than what people believe.

This book [ "Win"] is based on the interviews with three dozen Fortune 400 - or Forbes 400, the richest people, and a couple dozen of the top CEOs.I wanted to know what language they use to be successful, and I wanted to know the attributes that could then be applied to the average individual.

I have no interest in arguing with haters, and also, I really don't want to be associated, you know, with a group of people who are only pushing to fight against something and not for something. I do want to be known as different. Period. And I believe in the self-determination of all people and if that's the way people want to define themselves, so be it.

People hear from Donald Trump that he's such an extraordinary success. They didn't know about Trump airlines and Trump mortgages and Trump vitamin network and Trump steaks and Trump Taj Mahal. They didn't realize a lot of small people have been crushed by Donald Trump's rise to become a very wealthy man, successful financially, but this is a guy who has not been a uniform success.

It takes a lot of people to create a success. That's why I say that few leaders are successful unless a lot of people want them to be.

If you talk to anybody who's been successful in business, they will tell you the thing that matters the most are people. And clearly, in this case, the quality of the people was not paid attention to. By the board and I don't know what they were doing. And I think there is a certain accountability by the board here.

You have to think like a businessman or a businesswoman, and I can't wait to continue to grow, as an actress, but to also continue to grow as a brand and show people that I have so much more to offer.

You can take the smartest kid at Wharton, the one who gets straight A's and has a 170 IQ, and if he doesn't have the instincts, he'll never be a successful entrepreneur.

America is successful because of the hard work and creativity and enterprise of our people.

If women decide that their mission, their political career, balances out what they have to give up, they can be and are equally successful as men.

If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top.

You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.

You can achieve almost any goal if you just do what other successful people have done to achieve the same goals before you.

Willpower is so common among highly successful people that many see its characteristics as synonymous with success.

I don't believe in tricky advertising, I don't believe in cute advertising, I don't believe in comic advertising. The people who perpetrate that kind of advertising never had to sell anything in their lives

If you don't get result-oriented with the kids, you can focus on the things in the process that are important to them being successful.

Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don't need salespeople.

To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.

Being successful entails being able to not only get along with people, but also to give something back

If you consistently and persistently do the things that other successful people do, nothing in the world can stop you from being a big success also.

People want to be successful, and they want to be acknowledged for what they do. Sometimes they make really great art and aren't. Historically, the best artists weren't. But their work survived.