Abraham Lincoln said, "Always bear in mind that your own RESOLUTION to succeed is more important than any other one thing."

TOP 5 P's TO A SUCCESSFUL eBAY BUSINESS!

1. POSITIVE ATTITUDE

2. PREPARATION

3. PROACTIVENESS

4. PERSISTENCE

5. PATIENCE

Read what other past American Presidents, Inventors, CEO's, Top Managers, Economists, Philosophers, and other great talents have said regarding "SUCCESS":

• DON'T GIVE UP

• "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

• Thomas A. Edison

• DO WHAT IT TAKES

• "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

• Vidal Sassoon

• DO YOUR HOMEWORK

• "Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly I can!"  Then get busy and find out how to do it."

• Theodore Roosevelt

• PROVIDE EXCELLENT CUSTOMER SERVICE

• "The result of a business is a satisfied customer."

• Peter Drucker

• SHOW YOUR MERCHANDISE

• "The best ad is a good product."

• Alan H. Meyer

• IF IT'S NOT WORKING, TRY SOMETHING NEW

• "The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."

• Napoleon Hill

• DIVERSIFY

• "A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never get used up."

• Albert Schweitzer

• BE PATIENT

• "Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement, and failure.  Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

• Brian Adams

• LOOK'S MATTER

• To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.

• Duc de la Rochefoucauld

• CONQUER YOUR FEARS

• "Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear."

• Dale Carnegie

• LET CUSTOMERS GUIDE YOU

• "We don't want to push our ideas onto customers, we simply want to make [offer] what they want."

• Laura Ashley

• EVERYONE LOVES A DEAL

• "Make a customer, not a sale."

• Katherine Barchetti

• DEALING WITH REJECTION

• "We keep going back stronger, not weaker, because we will not allow rejection to beat us down.  It will only strengthen our resolve.  To be successful, there is no other way."

• Earl G. Graves

• LEARN FROM REJECTION

• "Failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it."

• Hank Aaron

• GET ADVICE FROM OTHER BUSINESS [eBAY] PEOPLE

• "All of us at certain moments of our lives need to take advice and to receive help."

• Alexis Carrol

• MANAGING UPS & DOWNS

• "Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes."

• Henry J. Kaiser

• BE POSITIVE

• "Success is more attitude than aptitude."

• Anonymous

• USE MOTIVATIONAL MATERIALS... REALLY!

• "Motivation is like food for the brain.  You cannot get enough in one sitting.  It needs continual and regular [fill] ups."

• Peter Davies

• IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE

• "Advertising is the life of trade."

• Calvin Coolidge

• KEEP IT FRESH

• "I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

• Jimmy Dean

ONE LAST POSITIVE THOUGHT

"I can give you a six-word formula for SUCCESS:  Think things through--then follow through."

• Capt. Edward V. Rickenbacker, WWI Congressional Medal of Honor Winner

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References:

• Training Manual, SMC
• Positive Thoughts, The Center for Positive Thinking, Pawling, N.Y.