Simple Success Secrets No One Told You About Quotes

“Attitude. Optimistic people work through setbacks and trauma… while pessimists settle into a funk that can’t be budged. And it’s a CHOICE. At some point in your life, you choose to either live in gloom or sunlight.”
― John Carlton, Simple Success Secrets No One Told You About

“Dark-Side Insight #1: If you are an ethical, rational actor in the game of business (or in life)… … then you’re operating with 2 strikes already against you. Unless you are fully aware of how your fellow actors are behaving.”
― John Carlton, Simple Success Secrets No One Told You About

“There is a meta-game going on during every interaction with another human, both consciously and unconsciously”
― John Carlton, Simple Success Secrets No One Told You About

“The people who get the most done in life are all extreme risk-takers. They embrace change, because growth is impossible without it. But you don’t go out and start changing things willy-nilly.”
― John Carlton, Simple Success Secrets No One Told You About

“I loathe black-and-white views of the world. It’s a shame that our great country has descended to this “you’re nuts if you don’t agree with me” mentality… but it’s part of the pendulum that’s been swinging back and forth ever since we left the jungle.”
― John Carlton, Simple Success Secrets No One Told You About

“A sales transaction, at its most fundamental form, is an inherently hostile act.  Both the buyer and the seller want the best possible deal.”
― John Carlton, Simple Success Secrets No One Told You About

“Here’s who I am, here’s what I have, here’s why you want it… and here’s what to do now.”
― John Carlton, Simple Success Secrets No One Told You About

“If you’re ashamed of anything you’re doing, then STOP fucking doing it.”
― John Carlton, Simple Success Secrets No One Told You About

“What the fuck, let’s go do it.”
― John Carlton, Simple Success Secrets No One Told You About

“Mushy liberals seem astonished that anyone would ever not love us, or want to destroy our culture. Repressed conservatives seem intent on crushing everyone who pisses them off (and that’s a lot of people).”
― John Carlton, Simple Success Secrets No One Told You About

“(I enjoy confronting them with questions on what they would do in the same situation. Not what they wouldn’t do — what they would DO. This usually shuts them up… because actually sticking their necks out and attempting any proactive movement is the last thing they want. They are not players. They’re hecklers.)”
― John Carlton, Simple Success Secrets No One Told You About

“Operation MoneySuck,” he said, rifling through his Rolodex for the number of a client we needed to call.  “Screw all that irrelevant stuff.  We’re gonna bring in the bucks.”
― John Carlton, Simple Success Secrets No One Told You About