One of the best predictors of ultimate success in either sales or non-sales selling isn't natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections.
I had to work to put myself through school, so I always worked in the heaviest industries I could find because that's who paid the best.
Initially, the television was seen as the devil incarnate by people that worked in the content industry. Now over time it turned out that that was one of the best things that ever could have happened to a content creator. I think the Internet is no d...
In this industry, you're so used to heartbreak because nine out of 10 times, you don't get what you want. But, that one out of 10 times, you do and it's just the best feeling in the world.
I'm pretty sure I became an actress solely because of craft services. When you're a kid and there's a lady walking around with a tray of chocolate and other free candy, that's the best reason to be in the industry!
But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system.
Often, M.B.A.s will parachute around from one company or industry to another, without really understanding what's behind it.
I've always been interested in fashion, the clothes, but I'm not that familiar with the fashion industry; for me it just comes out of quite an innocent sense of style.
Linear thinking typifies a highly developed industry. It starts to get these patterns built into it somehow. I'm not sure how that happens, but certainly you take a look at dinosaurs.
In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.
Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.
Liverpool was an industrial town, a poor town. The people fought hard for what they wanted to achieve and there was a hunger there, and that hunger has remained with the musicians.
The British security industry has the capacity to be a world leader and it should be our shared objective to achieve this.
I knew nothing about the industry, I didn't go to fashion school, but I was brave enough to do things in a different way.
Because the pop industry is cruel, if you don't do everything the label wants you to do, it has an army of other people waiting to do it.
A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe.
The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform.
Even before coming into the industry, I was a big fan of Motown, the Jackson 5, Gladys Knight, the Temptations, Diana Ross and The Supremes.
For me, my rule in this industry is I've got to listen to my butterflies. So if I got butterflies, then those are the scripts I go after.
Could the garment and appliance industries be in cahoots together, creating an artificial sock demand to keep us buying?
