American - Businessman | February 9, 1954 -
I've never been big on sports coats and pants. I'm a suit guy. It makes it clear who's in charge.
Chris Gardner
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I'm a Levi's guy.
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I do one thing - I don't do it on purpose - but I always make other guys look underdressed.
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One time, I was going to be in L.A. for 10 days for a business conference, and I took eight different pairs of sandals.
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I've been saying to people for a long time, 'If you're not doing something you're tremendously excited about, and you're not feeling passionate about it, you're compromising yourself every day.'
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The people who care the most about the folks in your community are living in the community. They don't live in Washington, D.C.
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Salespeople are the most important people in any organization. Until a salesperson gets an order, nobody in the company has a job.
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I've never considered selling anything other than profession, but it's more than that. It's one of the highest callings that you can aspire to. Not everyone can do it.
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Business school professors don't take selling seriously because they don't know how to sell. It's easy to talk about business theory and production time and just-in-time development. Selling is much more difficult.
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I was blessed to have the guys at Bear Stearns as mentors. They taught me a lot, but most of all, they taught me that there's nothing wrong with selling if you're selling the right product to the right person.
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Racism is not new. It was not invented just for you. So get bigger than that stuff.
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Everybody got a dream. What's the plan?
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