D&B to Discuss Predictive Analytics Strategies

Leveraging Big Data to Predict Business Opportunities / Risk

Dun & Bradstreet will be presenting a free webinar on capabilities to identify B2B clients and prospects poised for growth or actively shopping. In the video below, Paul Ballew, D&B's head of analytics offers a sneak peek for the online event scheduled for Wednesday, March 26 at 10 AM Central.

Interested in attending? You can register here.

11 Sales Quotes that You Probably Haven't Heard Before

So, because I wasn't able to find them on any of the big quotation search sites, I've decided to provide a home online for the following 11 sales quotes you probably haven't heard yet:



Theory is very helpful in business, but only when the business has already been settled.
  -- Italo Svevo

Nothing is as irritating as the fellow that chats pleasantly while he's over-charging you.
  -- Kin Hubbard

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give it to them. By the time you build it, they'll want something new.
  -- Steve Jobs

Half the time when men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
  -- E. W. Howe

Clarity trumps persuasion.
  -- Dr. Flint McGlaughlin

Knowledge without courage is sterile.
  -- Baltasar Gracian

Nothing is free anymore to sell itself or give itself away.
  -- Jean Giraudoux

Bring the best of your authentic self to every opportunity.
  -- John Jantsch

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage, however, that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.
  -- Laurence Sterne

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
  -- Sam Walton

Good bargains empty pockets.
  -- German proverb



Please share any other obscure quotes about sales and/or marketing below.