The Worst Fault A Salesman

If Each Of Us Hires People Who Are Smaller Than We Are, We Shall Become A Company Of Dwarfs. But If Each Of Us Hires People Who Are Bigger Than We Are, We Shall Become A Company Of Giants.

Always Hold Your Sales Meetings In Rooms Too Small For The Audience, Even If It Means Holding Them In The Wc. 'standing Room Only' Creates An Atmosphere Of Success, As In Theatres And Restaurants, While A Half-empty Auditorium Smells Of Failure.

The Best Ideas Come As Jokes. Make Your Thinking As Funny As Possible.

When Someone Is Made The Head Of An Office In The Ogilvy & Mather Chain, I Send Him A Matrioshka Doll From Gorky. If He Has The Curiosity To Open It, And Keep Opening It Until He Comes To The Inside Of The Smallest Doll, He Finds This Message: If Each Of Us Hires People Who Are Smaller Than We Are, We Shall Become A Company Of Dwarfs. But If Each Of Us Hires People Who Are Bigger Than We Are, We Shall Become A Company Of Giants.

If It Is Something Important, Get A Colleague To Improve It.