Quotes About Prospect

We all get a little rush of excitement at the prospect of buying a brand-new outfit for a first date, but this is not the time. You're much better off wearing clothes, shoes especially, that you've already tested.

One must say no to some opportunities to open the possibilities of others.

Opportunities will come, you've just got to be ready to take advantage of it, be ready when the opportunity comes.

Most good things come with the risk of something bad.

Hope implies that you think you have a chance at something.

But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.

That however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.

Whereupon people would come barging into his sanctuary, asking stupid questions and making stupid demands . . . and he, Jubal Harshaw, would have to make decisions and take action. Since he was philosophically convinced that all action was futile, the prospect irritated him.

The best is yet to be.

Look forward, not back. Always move forward.

Although "the American Dream" is a surprisingly recent coinage (the term was first used in its modern sense in the 1930s), the cultural trope of Horatio Alger and the prospect of upward social mobility have very deep roots in our psyche.

But Churchill lies directly in the path of polar bears that migrate from summer shelter to the coast of Hudson Bay in anticipation of the bay's waters freezing; it was one thing to have experienced, as I had on several occasions, a moose lying in the driveway or walking down the street, but the prospect of a large and hungry carnivore lurking around the corner seeming to me an entirely different proposition.

A blank red slate. Anything was possible, anything could happen

I am too old a hand to be put off pleasure by even the certain prospect of not enjoying it.

Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.

A "prospect" has a need for the product, a possible desire to own that product, and the financial capacity to implement that decision. You "spend" time with suspects; you "invest" time with prospects.

Something's going to happen!

Whatever we have is only a potential. It becomes visible only if the other part has a lower potential.

Opportunity is like a door; it is always open, but you have to be prepared to enter through it.

The opportunities that everyone cannot see are the real opportunities.

The referral is the easiest prospect in the world to sell. Ask any professional who hates selling (accountants, architects, lawyers) -- they'll tell you that 100% of their new business comes from referrals. That's because they're not capable of making sales calls and rely on the fall-in-your-lap method of selling.

ON A COLD CALL: Be brief. You must generate interest in about 30 seconds or less, or forget it. Make a strong statement about how you can help the prospect. Don't focus on how much money you can save them. That approach seems to be wearing thin. Talk about what you do for companies like hers, or how your product has worked for others.

Sales solutions are easy once you identify the prospect's problems, concerns, and needs...with questions.