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

Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.

But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective.

No one tells salesmen what they can and can't do.

If you want to be the best salesperson, first you must be the best person.

I think skilled salesmen have the ability to work out who you are and pick out aspects of your personality. They almost manipulate you, in a way, to make you buy their product.

Excellence always sells.

I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation.