Book Titles

To Sell is Human
The Surprising Truth About Moving Others

By Daniel Pink

Year Published: 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1594487156
Categories: Buying, Humanity, Selling

33 Quotes Found

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To Sell is Human:

…today, most important activities are producing and involve moving.

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To Sell is Human:

The technologies that were supposed to make salespeople obsolete in fact have transformed more people into sellers.

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To Sell is Human:

Interacting with customers around problems isn’t selling per se. But it sells.

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To Sell is Human:

Inventors with new technologies and upstart competitors with fresh business models regularly capsize individual companies and reconfigure entire industries.

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To Sell is Human:

To sell well is to convince someone else to part with resources – not to deprive that person, but to leave him better off in the end.

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To Sell is Human:

When buyers can know more than sellers, sellers are no longer protectors and purveyors of information.

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To Sell is Human:

Each of us – because we’re human – has a selling instinct, which means that anyone can master the basics of moving others.

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To Sell is Human:

Extraverts… often stumble over themselves. They can talk too much and listen too little, which dulls their understanding of others’ perspectives.

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To Sell is Human:

Talking with each other, one to one, is human beings’ most powerful form of attunement.

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To Sell is Human:

Attuning yourself to others – exiting your own perspective and entering theirs – is essential to moving others.

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