The reason I have done so well in sales, is because I don’t do things with the expectation of a return. I do things to provide value, no matter what.

Numbers don’t lie and sales is absolutely the foundation of your business. There is simply no other way.

Your religion in sales has to be attention. Before you even think about how to sell your SaaS product or your wine, or your agency, or your open house or your book, or whatever it is, you have to understand where the consumer actually is.

There’s a lot of shortcomings when sales are automated. In most businesses, it’s a high-touch 1-1 conversation where you are attempting to bring value to the other person. It’s not a LinkedIn messenger bot that is going to do the trick.

The truth is, sales is about people. You have to build relationships first. You have to put yourself in your customer’s shoes and empathize with their position. No app is going to teach you that.

You don’t get to decide whatever 13 to 25 year olds want to do with their hair, their clothes, their bodies, their cell phones, their friends, their time, or their money. You just have to observe and react.

99% of the time your customer is going to be searchable and accessible online. And for those of you that don’t know, consumers now spend 10 hours a day in front of their screen with roughly half of that time spent on a mobile device. Clearly the internet, and our glowing black boxes have our attention

When the energy of your tactics is to convert, you will most likely lose. When your energy is to disproportionately bring value and let the chips fall where they may, you will win. It will change your behavior, it will change the energy of the execution and it will change you game.

Like anything else in life, I think sale comes down to putting in the work, providing value, building relationships and doing the research.

If you want to win, you have to be practical with your understanding and execution. You have to go where the consumer actually is, and use the right tools to reach them.

If you are intelligent, and you understand that you have no control over THE MARKET, then you begin thinking about where the potential upside is.

Being tied down by the idealistic vision of how you made your money in the past is wrong. The world is changing! And the way you were successful yesterday definitely won’t be the way you are successful today. You need to look forward and become utterly unromantic about what you did in the past that got you “here.”

Technology has changed the way we sell, and most of your actions as salespeople aren’t rooted in that reality. It’s all out there, you just have to go out and take it!

If you want to win in sales, you need to be utterly unromantic about consumer behavior. You need observe, analyze and adjust to where the consumer actually is. No one can deny that social media takes up our time.

Everyone writes differently. I hope to get people energized so they'll want to rush home to write.

I try not to read Google.

Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Wise men dont need advice. Fools wont take it.

I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.

Unfortunately, the diplomatic destruction Netanyahu is causing will lead Israel to lose its Jewish majority and become a binational state. This unfortunate fact is something no law can hide.

My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.

'Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction.

It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point.

I've got Colin Firth's number in my phone!

This time, there were no drugs involved. The hours were completely normal daytime hours. I think we were able to appreciate the interplay, where before we had taken it for granted.

I don't get jazz. It always sounds like a bunch of toddlers let loose in a music room.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.

I remember when I was first auditioning to be a part of it, I thought it would be way to cool and there was no way it would actually happen, so I still can't believe I'm in the 'X-Men' and I'm Havok.

I don't read books.

Adult gorillas will fight to the death defending their families. This is why poachers who may be seeking only one infant for the zoo trade must often kill all the adults in the family to capture the baby.

Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.

There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.

Once in a while it really hits people that they dont have to experience the world in the way they have been told.

Vampires are a genre now.

Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

Trust is like a paper. Once its crumpled it cant be perfect again.