Jeffrey Gitomer Quotes

Most salespeople would like to think of themselves as being rock stars, but they don't display the talent to match their definition.

Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.

I'm one of those people who always tries to overachieve. I want to do more. I want to do bigger things.

I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.

What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

I've always been really ambitious, whatever I do. At school, I always wanted to be the best in the class - no, it wasn't enough to be the best in the class, I'd want to be the best in the country.

My job is to play quarterback, and I'm going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.

The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.

A good band is like a team. You want to have the right balance. It's not always the best people you need, but the right ones for the job.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

St. Louis is still a special place for me. I still have my home there. I live there in the offseason. I enjoyed playing in front of 40,000 people every day. I tried to do my best to help the organization win. I had success there. We won two World Series. We went to three. That's something you can't take from me.

My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.

To get the Nickelodeon award? That's like 'it.' It's one of the best. It's definitely where you want to be in your career.

At its best, management theory is part of the democratic promise of America. It aims to replace the despotism of the old bosses with the rule of scientific law. It offers economic power to all who have the talent and energy to attain it.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.

I've always considered myself the best and the top. I never considered that I was out of it.

Tom Cruise is just a machine. He really raises the bar as far as being a stud goes.

My mum is a total go-getter.

If there are opportunities, seize them and be prepared for them, and be the best, if that's what it takes. If you have to be extraordinary, then be extraordinary.

I was just a bright, driven kid.

Felicity Huffman is just flawless; she's above and beyond TV and movies and this Earth.

Are people like Tom Cruise in touch with their public? I doubt it. Footballers are more like the rock stars of yester-year: they are box office.

I need to give a special mention to Declan Rice, I think he's going to go to the top.